Marlon Simmons is Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Graduate Programs at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary. His scholarly work is grounded within the Diaspora, decolonial thought, qualitative research, and sociology of education. Related to Marlon’s teaching and research interests are network learning, governance of the self, and the role of sociomaterial relations with enhancing educational delivery.

• Acknowledgments – Introduction: Notes from the Diaspora – Writing Black Life: Theoretical Underpinnings – Locating Black Life within Colonial Modernity: Decolonial Notes – Politics of Urban Diasporized Youth and Possibilities for Belonging – Diaspora, Citizenry, Becoming Human and the Education of African-Canadian Youth – The Race to Modernity: Understanding Culture through the Diasporic-Self – Dialogue with Fanon.

Marlon Simmons is Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Graduate Programs at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary. His scholarly work is grounded within the Diaspora, decolonial thought, qualitative research, and sociology of education. Related to Marlon’s teaching and research interests are network learning, governance of the self, and the role of sociomaterial relations with enhancing educational delivery.

• Acknowledgments – Introduction: Notes from the Diaspora – Writing Black Life: Theoretical Underpinnings – Locating Black Life within Colonial Modernity: Decolonial Notes – Politics of Urban Diasporized Youth and Possibilities for Belonging – Diaspora, Citizenry, Becoming Human and the Education of African-Canadian Youth – The Race to Modernity: Understanding Culture through the Diasporic-Self – Dialogue with Fanon.

Marlon Simmons is Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Graduate Programs at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary. His scholarly work is grounded within the Diaspora, decolonial thought, qualitative research, and sociology of education. Related to Marlon’s teaching and research interests are network learning, governance of the self, and the role of sociomaterial relations with enhancing educational delivery.

• Acknowledgments – Introduction: Notes from the Diaspora – Writing Black Life: Theoretical Underpinnings – Locating Black Life within Colonial Modernity: Decolonial Notes – Politics of Urban Diasporized Youth and Possibilities for Belonging – Diaspora, Citizenry, Becoming Human and the Education of African-Canadian Youth – The Race to Modernity: Understanding Culture through the Diasporic-Self – Dialogue with Fanon.