Frances Henry, Professor Emerita, is one of Canada’s leading experts in the study of racism and anti-racism. Since the mid seventies when she published the first study of attitudes towards people of colour, she has consistently pioneered research in this field. Her most recent book (co-authored with Carol Tator) is on racial profiling in policing but it also demonstrates how profiling is carried out in other institutional arenas of society. Published in 2006, it is called Racial Profiling in Canada: Challenging the Myth of a ‘Few Bad Apples’.

Other books include co-authoring the third edition of The Colour of Democracy: Racism in Canadian Society. This work demonstrates how the ‘new racism’ here identified with the concept of ‘democratic racism’ manifests within Canadian institutions. She has also co-authored Challenging Racism in the Arts, 1998. Her recent work on racist discourse in the media, Discourses of Domination: Racial Bias in the Canadian English Language Press, 2002 uses critical discourse analysis as a tool for deconstructing racism in media representation.

As an anthropologist, Professor Henry’s area of specialization is the Caribbean. She has written the only ethnographic study of the Caribbean community in Toronto, The Caribbean Diaspora in Toronto: Learning to Live with Racism, and has recently published Reclaiming African Religion in Trinidad: The Orisha and Spiritual Baptist Faiths, 2003. Her latest work on the Caribbean is co-edited (with Dwaine Plaza) and titled Returning to the Source: The Final Stage of the Caribbean Migration Circuit, 2006.