Scholars want term 'white paper' scrapped due to its 'racial and historical context'
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(THE COLLEGE FIX) – A group of Canadian scholars argued recently that the term “white paper” should be scrapped due to its problematic “racial and historical context.”
In a University Affairs op-ed, Jennifer Jakobi of the University of British Columbia and leaders of Women in Science and Engineering (part of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) assembled “experts from across Canada” to get input on a replacement term.
Despite the fact that paper is white, the experts – “researchers, librarians, Indigenous leaders, science policy experts” and “advocates” in the topics of racism and decolonization – agreed that “hierarchies inherent in the creation of white papers are seen as artefacts of colonialization.”
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