Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University

rosalind hampton is an assistant professor in the Department of Social Justice Education at the University of Toronto

• Acknowledgements PreludeFinding a Conversation"Becoming" an Activist1. Introduction: The University as a Site of StruggleSettler Colonialism and Education: A Brief OverviewThe Canadian UniversityWhose University? The 1960sBlack Educational Activism and Black (Canadian) StudiesNeoliberalism and the UniversityOn Critical Race Counter-Storytelling2. Colonial Legacies and Canadian IvyMeeting James McGillSlavery and the Transatlantic Slave EconomyThe University and its SponsorsMcGill Lineage3. Trying to Keep Canada White and the Power to Write HistoryMcGill and the Modernization of QuébecAnticolonial Resistance and Black PowerToward a New MillenniumConclusion: On a Critical Engagement with History4. The Idealized Elite UniversityClass and Class-Minded-ness"The McGill Bubble": A "Sea of Whiteness"White Hallways by Cora-Lee ConwayThe professoriateOn Mentorship and Academic "Expertise"The Power of the ProfConclusion: Expectations Meet Experience5. Being and Becoming BlackA Word on WhitenessSocialization in a Culture of Whiteness"I didn’t know I was Black"Black Canadian "identity problems"Managing Interlocking Stereotype ThreatsConstruction WorkBlack as in Radical, Radical as in RootedCommunity and CommuningConclusion: Navigating and Resisting Racialization and Colonial Ideology6. Serving Up Resistance"Diversity & equity" workHiring committeesThe Africana Studies CommitteeMapping Power and Informed Decision MakingConclusion Bibliography

"Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University is an important scholarly contribution to educational history broadly and more specifically in its documentation of Black experiences in Canadian universities. It is a welcomed intervention in the institutional histories of the Canadian academy that is often whitewashed and actively erases the presence and activism of Black students, faculty, and community members."- Natasha Henry (Historical Studies in Education, Vol. 33, No. 1)