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Rai Reece

Dr. Rai Reece

Assistant Professor
EducationHonours BA (York University), MES (York University), PhD (York University, Women’s Studies)
OfficeJOR-301
Phone416-979-5000 x556154

Areas of Expertise:

Canadian Black feminism; critical race theory; anti-Black racism, punishment &  misogynoir; critical feminist criminology; community-based ethnography; prison health; equity as social praxis; abolition & activism

Research:

Dr. Rai Reece is an interdisciplinary scholar-activist. Her work examines how carceral processes in Canada are organized and maintained by historical and contemporary narratives and practices of colonial violence specific to anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism. More broadly, her work explores the intersection of punishment and misogynoir as legally and socially enacted via governance and white settler capitalism. A central feature of her work explores how community-based ethnographic pedagogy can be a tool for social activism and the limitations to that praxis. She received the '100 Accomplished Black Canadian Women' Award in 2020 and the Humber College Research Excellence Award in 2018.

Websites:

ryerson.academia.edu/RaiReece (external link, opens in new window) 

ORCID iD icon  orcid.org/0000-0003-1736-9114   (external link, opens in new window) 

Courses:

Community & Professional Service:

Recent Publications:

Reece, R. Under review. A Reflection on Racial Injustice and (Black) Anticipatory Grief Compounded by COVID-19. The Journal of Concurrent Disorders.

Reece, R. and J. Moritz. Forthcoming. One Seed at a Time: Evaluating the Impact of the Horticulture Technician Pre-Apprenticeship Program on the Lives of Incarcerated Women. Journal of Innovation in Polytechnic Education.

Knight, M., R.N. Ferguson and R. Reece. 2021. “It’s Not Just about Work and Living Conditions”: The Underestimation of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Black Canadian Women. (external link, opens in new window)  Social Sciences 10: 210.

Reece, R. 2020.  (PDF file) Carceral Redlining: White Supremacy is a Weapon of Mass Incarceration for Indigenous and Black Peoples in Canada (external link)  (Policy Brief, Issue 68). Toronto: Yellowhead Institute. 

Gillies, K, E. Lam, T. Law, R. Reece, A. Sterling and E. van der Meulen. 2019. “Understanding the Work in Sex Work: Canadian Contexts” in Working Women in Canada: An Intersectional Approach (external link)  (pp. 359-379), edited by L. Nichols. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press.

van der Meulen, E., R. Reece and S. Ka Hon Chu. 2018. Building Dialogue on Prison Health: Improving Access to Harm Reduction in Federal Prisons. (external link)  Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice 60(3): 299-313.

van der Meulen, E., R. Reece, and S. Ka Hon Chu. 2018. Rebuttal to the Correctional Service of Canada’s Response. (external link)  Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice 60(3): 318-320.

Reece, R. 2016. “Gendering Justice: Exploring Community-based Options for Women and Girls” in Diversity, Justice, and Community: The Canadian Context (external link)  (pp. 229-247), edited by B. Daniel. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press.