{"id":39350,"date":"2025-02-25T12:11:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T17:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/?p=39350"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:35:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:35:54","slug":"black-canadians-in-politics-carleton-research-project-explores-ways-to-enhance-inclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/2025\/black-canadians-in-politics-carleton-research-project-explores-ways-to-enhance-inclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Canadians in Politics: Carleton Research Project Explores Ways to Enhance Inclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Black Canadians in Politics: Carleton Research Project Explores Ways to Enhance Inclusion\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>&#8220;The seed for the \u201cBlack Canadians in Electoral Politics\u201d project was planted about a decade ago, when Tolley [Erin Tolley, the Canada Research Chair in Gender, Race, and Inclusive Politics at Carleton University] met Velma Morgan, the chair of Operation Black Vote Canada, a non-profit that advocates for Black participation in public office. Morgan asked Tolley why so few Canadian political scientists did research in this area and suggested they \u201cdo something about it&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three years ago, after securing a Partnership Engage Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, they got to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to releasing the comprehensive \u201cBlack on the Ballot\u201d report last month, rooted in dozens of interviews and the first-ever national survey of Black Canadians in politics, the collaboration has also yielded a trove of archival datasets and an engaging four-episode podcast hosted by Nana aba Duncan, Carleton\u2019s Carty Chair in Journalism, Diversity and Inclusion Studies.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/black-canadians-politics-inclusivity\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The seed for the \u201cBlack Canadians in Electoral Politics\u201d project was planted about a decade ago, when Tolley [Erin Tolley, the Canada Research Chair in Gender, Race, and Inclusive Politics at Carleton University] met Velma Morgan, the chair of Operation Black Vote Canada, a non-profit that advocates for Black participation in public office. 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