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 In the process of drawing from and gesturing toward itineraries and concepts of race on a transnational and multi-sited scale, Race Critical Theories remains all-the-while mindful of its situatedness within Tiohtià:ke/Montréal and Concordia University. More precisely, this project offers a direct response to the uniquely local ways in which the supposed defense of “academic freedom”—and the use of the n-word by white professors in particular—has sought to reinvigorate settler colonial logics and white supremacy in Quebec universities and society at large. As evidenced by its deployment during the [2022 Quebec leaders debate] and the passing of [Bill 32], the weaponization of “academic freedom” has become a juridically-sanctioned tactic for delegitimizing the voices of Black and Indigenous scholars, students and the communities they represent. </br></br>
 To our reader, the point might seem obvious; yet in our local context, it can never be overstated: Race Critical Theories opposes the weaponization of “academic freedom” as a form of systemic racism centered on whiteness and the maintenance of settler colonial entitlement. Accordingly, this project’s global outlook and investment in translocal forms of race and racial discourse aims to reinforce, rather than defer, our commitment to the specific forms of anti-racist and decolonial struggle demanded by our local environment. In this way, the project is an invitation for collaborative thinking and action that is at once embedded in distinct local histories and practices, and their translocal expression.</br></br>
 
-# Resources
+## Resources
 
 [#Atlanta Syllabus](https://asianamerican.wisc.edu/student-resources-2/atlantasyllabus/)
 [#BlackLivesCanadian Syllabus](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bas9pfAPdY5dZtoJx20ORpa3YZa4A5H0L5P3OgzB-mo/edit)
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 [#Teaching the Radical Catalogue](https://syllabus.radicalcatalogue.net/)
 [#Women’sStrike Syllabus](https://thenewinquiry.com/a-womens-strike-syllabus/)
 
-# Bibliographic Resources
+## Bibliographic Resources
 
 Chandler, Nahum D. *X: The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought.* New York: Fordham University Press, 2014.
 Goldberg, David Theo, and Philomena Essed, eds. *Race Critical Theories: Text and Context.* New York: Wiley, 2002.
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 Scott, Corrie. “How French Canadians Became White Folks, or Doing Things with Race in Quebec.” *Ethnic and Racial Studies* 39.7 (2016): 1280–97.
 Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang. “Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor.” *Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society* 1, no. 1 (2012): 1-40.
 
-## Land Acknowledgement
+# Land Acknowledgement
 
 **The Race Critical Theories project assembles critical insights from scholars and activists operating through wide scopes of race, racism, racialization both within and beyond the borders of the project’s home base in Montréal. Race Critical Theories acknowledge that this project occupies the traditional lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka. The Kanien’kehá:ka are the keepers of the Eastern Door of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. The island called “Montreal” is known as Tiotia:ke in the language of the Kanien’kehá:ka, and it has historically been a meeting place for other Indigenous nations, including the Omàmiwininì or Algonquin people.**</br></br>
 **Race Critical Theories acknowledge the lands, identities, subjectivities, bodies, and histories that have also been the target of violent imperial and settler-colonial conquest and subjugation, while at the same time reconceptualizing anti-racist solidarity within the context of living on stolen and occupied Indigenous land. This project acknowledges the complex and interconnected relationships to the land that we live on, depending on our ancestry, and where we sit in relationship to the struggles for justice occurring on this land.**</br></br>