TPL and Toronto Metropolitan University presents leading scholar on the politics of race Debra Thompson in conversation with Sanjay Ruparelia, on stage and in-person at Toronto Reference Library's Appel Salon space.

Professor Debra Thompson is a leading scholar of the comparative politics of race at McGill University. Her teaching and research interests focus on the relationships among race, the state, and inequality in democratic societies. Her previous book, The Schematic State: Race, Transnationalism, and the Politics of the Census, studies of the racial classifications on the national censuses and how the nature of the census has evolved from an instrument historically used to manage and control racialized populations to its contemporary purpose as an important source of statistical information. Her new book, The Long Road Home, follows the roots of Black identities in North America and the routes taken by those who have crisscrossed the world’s longest undefended border in search of freedom and belonging and the relationship between North American racism and democracy.

Debra Thompson shares her insights in conversation with Sanjay Ruparelia.

Question and answer session and book signing to follow. Books available for purchase.