The West is in freefall. Liberal-democratic institutions have suffered a near-fatal blow in the United States; Europe, caught leaderless as the United States vacates this position, is in disarray. Three words have come to define this moment: I can't breathe.
Sunera Thobani
Sunera Thobani is Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada, (2007) and Contesting Islam, Constructing Race and Gender: The Inordinate Desire of the West (Bloomsbury, forthcoming) and co-editor of Asian Women: Interconnections, (2005), States of Race: Critical Race Feminist Theory for the 21st Century, (2010), and Racial Injustice in the University (University of Toronto Press, forthcoming). The first woman of color President of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, Canada's largest feminist organization, Thobani is a founding member of the cross-Canada network, Researchers and Academics of Colour for Equity (RACE).