Racial gaslighting

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Aboriginals Autofiction

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Canadian Prairies Colonialism Colonize Community

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Decolonization Diglossia Disappear/Disappeared Discrimination Disenchanted Duty to remember Dysphoria

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El Chacotero Emancipation Exiled person

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Fe-male Feminism fiction/théorie

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Gender Gender euphoria Ghettoization Globalization

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Hedonism

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Indian Initiation story (Bildungsroman) Intertextuality

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Masculinist Maternity Migrant

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Native New Narrative

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Overtourism

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Patriarchy Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile Poetic prose Prejudice Pullman Porters Punk

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Queer

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Racial gaslighting Racism Refugee Reserve Residential schools Revolutionary

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Second emigration Segregation Self-writing Social class Sohrab and Rustom Stateless Stereotype Systemic racism

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Territory Theory Toxic masculinity Traditions Transgender identity translation Transphobia Treaty

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Une "chambre à soi"

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Victoria Day

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Wendake — Wendat Whites writing subject/sutured subject

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Yändata’ Yoruba

Literature-specific definitions

Where They Stood: The Evolution of the Black Anglo Community in Montreal by Black Community Resource Centre

Defined by the OED as “[t]he action or process of manipulating a person by psychological means into questioning his or her own sanity.” ¹ 1 “Gaslighting.” Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford UP, 2023. In their essay “‘One God! One Aim! One Destiny!’ Wartime Activism and Early Postwar Garveyism, 1914–1919,” Sherwins Jean introduces racial gaslighting as “the phenomenon of making racialized communities doubt their perceptions of racism.” ² 2 BCRC. Where They Stood. p. 31. Jean uses the example of Dodson v. Loew’s Theatre, a case in which Black individuals were not admitted into a movie theatre because of racist discrimination. Although this was a clear instance of racial profiling, at the time, a high percentage of Canadian politicians “feign[ed] racial colour blindness.” ³ 3 BCRC. Where They Stood. p. 31. Where They Stood touches on many instances of racial gaslighting throughout Canadian history, including housing and employment discrimination. The CAQ’s denial of systemic racism in Quebec is also an example of racial gaslighting.

See book

1 “Gaslighting.” Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford UP, 2023.
2 BCRC. Where They Stood. p. 31.
3 BCRC. Where They Stood. p. 31.