Reflections on Economy, Racism & Solidarity in Iqaluit - by Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory

Untitled YELLOWHEAD BRIEF #149 | MARCH 19, 2024 Reflections on Economy, Racism & Solidarity in Iqaluit by Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory RACISM IN IQALUIT is a historical and ongoing issue that In the Cold War climate, the American Army arrived, and comes in waves, crashing into the city with changes the dynamic was once again reproduced. [...] ese waves are driven by military men sought to dominate the landscape and newcomers, who take up more and more, while Inuit are hired Black Americans to build surveillance and aviation forced to watch and experience the trauma that comes with infrastructure. [...] White women soon dynamics and the complicated layers joined the transit as social services like education and healthcare required capacity that colonial administrators of colonization and racism to break the did not think existed among Inuit. [...] migration and anti-Black racism is linked to the very same attitudes and policies that facilitate the marginalization Today, as the city grows again amid a booming economy, and racist views of Inuit. [...] We see it all around, as we have in previous waves: who has the lowest employment rates? In the days of the Hudson’s Bay Company, throughout the Who has the housing crisis, who has the bad educational 1950s, the upper-class English colonizers sought to control attainment rates, who is experiencing language loss, and resources and manage relationships between and among who has the highest rate of s.