Jay Pitter - The City's Broken Promise: Confronting anti-Black racism across Canadian urban landscapes
Sep 22, 2020 19:00 - 20:30
(GMT -5:00) Eastern Time
This keynote will historically spatialize anti-Blackness across Canadian cities, unpack the current moment of reckoning, and outline courageous collective action.
Jay Pitter, MES, is an award-winning placemaker and author whose practice mitigates growing divides in cities across North America. She also shapes urgent city-building conversations through media and academic platforms. Jay has been named the John Bousfield Distinguished Visitor in Planning by the University of Toronto. She is the co-editor of Subdivided: City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity. Her forthcoming books, Black Public Joy and Where We Live, will be published by McClelland & Stewart, Penguin Random House Canada.
This event is brought to you by the Windsor Law Centre for Cities, the University of Windsor Humanities Research Group (HRG), and Making It Awkward: Challenging Anti-Black Racism.
The generous financial support of the following sponsors is gratefully acknowledged:
-City of Windsor through Councillor Fabio Costante’s Ward 2 funds
-Windsor Essex County Environment Committee (WECEC)
A follow-up workshop, led by Jay Pitter and sponsored by MIA and the Centre for Cities, will be held on Wednesday 30 September from 2-4:30 pm. The workshop is open to Windsor-based Black community builders and their allies/accomplices interested in learning equity-based placemaking principles and strategies for engaging with the municipality.
More information and registration for the workshop is available here:
https://windsorlawcities.ca/event/jay-pitter-windsor-workshop-on-anti-black-racism-and-equitable-placemaking/