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Sunera Thobani | |
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| Born | 1957 (age 66–67) Tanzania |
| Citizenship | Canadian |
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| Title | President of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women |
| Term | 1993–1996 |
| Predecessor | Judy Rebick |
| Successor | Joan Grant-Cummings |
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Sunera Thobani (born 1957) is a Tanzanian-Canadian feminist sociologist, academic, and activist. Her research interests include critical race theory, postcolonial feminism, anti-imperialism, Islamophobia, Indigeneity, and the War on Terror. She is currently an associate professor at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. Thobani is also a founding member of Researchers and Academics of Colour for Equality/Equity (R.A.C.E.), the former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC), and the director for the Centre for Race, Autobiography, Gender, and Age (RAGA).