I chose to reflect on Ann Lopez’s presentation theme “Combating
inequities and deficit discourses-building diverse, inclusive
schools”. Themes and concepts, which were presented during
Lopez’s presentation and the selected readings, were well
connected with the previous two presentations, by Sherene Razack
How we get drawn into the project of the Empire, and Rinaldo
Walcott’s thesis on Thinking Coloniality. Thus, I try to bring
to the center the notions of culture, culturally relevant and
responsive pedagogy, and multiculturalism in my reflection and
link these with the questions of race, coloniality, social class
and hegemony. Description of the presentation and the readings I
want to provide short description on the presentation as well as
key ideas that I pulled out from the suggested readings. Lopez’s
situating herself within the theoretical and methodological
frameworks is drawn from her own lived experiences as a Jamaican
rural black female immigrant in Canada. For Ann, formal
education, despite its rac