Professor
Department of Educational Studies (EDST)
Dr. Wright’s research focuses on issues of identity related to representation and social justice locally, nationally and internationally. In particular he works on multiculturalism and related or competing discourses (transnationalism, interculturalism, cosmopolitanism, diaspora) and how these contribute to and affect identity (e.g. immigrant, multiracial and queer youth). He also works on Africana identity construction on the continent and in the diaspora (especially Canada and the United States).
Contributions:
De B’beri, B., Reid-Maroney, N. & Wright, H.K. (Eds.). (2014). The Promised Land? History and Historiography of Black Experience in Chatham-Kent’s Settlements and Beyond. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Wright, H.K., Singh, M. & Race, R. (Eds.). (2012). Precarious international multicultural education: Hegemony, dissent and rising alternatives. Sense Publishers.
Wright, H.K. & Morris, M. (Eds.). (2012). Transnationalism and cultural studies. London & New York: Routledge.
Wright, H.K. (2004). A Prescience of African Cultural Studies: The future of literature studies in Africa is not what it was. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
Wright, H.K. (2006). Are we (T)here Yet? Qualitative Research in Education’s Profuse and Contested Present. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 19 (6), 793-802.
Keywords:
Multiculturalism; Race relations; Africa and diaspora; Sociocultural identity; Cultural studies; Youth.
handel.wright@ubc.ca
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