Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy

Teaching, Learning, and Researching While Black

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvAwad Ibrahim,Tamari Kitossa,Malinda S. Smith,Handel K. Wright

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The essays in Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy make visible the submerged stories of Black life in academia. They offer fresh historical, social, and cultural insights into what it means to teach, learn, research, and work while Black.In daring to shift from margin to centre, the book’s contributors confront two overlapping themes. First, they resist a singular construction of Blackness that masks the nuances and multiplicity of what it means to be and experience the academy as Black people. Second, they challenge the stubborn durability of anti-Black tropes, the dehumanization of Blackness, persistent deficit ideologies, and the tyranny of low expectations that permeate the dominant idea of Blackness in the white colonial imagination.Operating at the intersections of discourse and experience, contributors reflect on how Blackness shapes academic pathways, ignites complicated and often difficult conversations, and reimagines Black pasts, presents, and futures. This unique collection contributes to the articulation of more nuanced understandings of the ways in which Blackness is made, unmade, and remade in the academy and the implications for interrelated dynamics across and within post-secondary education, Black communities in Canada, and global Black diasporas.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-02-02
Mått159 x 235 x 37 mm
Vikt840 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor488
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781487528690

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Awad Ibrahim is a professor and curriculum theorist in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa. Tamari Kitossa is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Brock University.Malinda S. Smith is the inaugural vice-provost of equity, diversity, and inclusion and a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary. Handel K. Wright is the inaugural senior advisor to the president on anti-racism and inclusive excellence; the director of the Centre for Culture, Identity, and Education; and a professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia.

List of Figures and Tables Preface: The Nuances of Blackness: A Genesis and Outline Acknowledgments Introduction: A Meditation on the Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy Awad Ibrahim, Tamari Kitossa, Malinda S. Smith, and Handel Kashope WrightPart One: Blackness: What’s in a Name?Commentary on Part I: Why the Study of Blackness Is Critical at This Historical Juncture George J. Sefa Dei1. The Awkward Presence of Blackness in the Canadian Academy Handel Kashope Wright2. Exposed! The Ivory Tower’s Code Noir Delia D. Douglas3. The Precariat African-Canadian Academic: Problematic Historical Constructions, Perpetual Struggles for Recognition Ali A. Abdi4. What Have Deleuze and Guattari Got to Do with Blackness? A Rhizomatic Analysis of Blackness Awad Ibrahim5. Dancing with the Invisibility/Inaudibility: Nuances of Blackness in a Francophone ContextGina ThéséePart Two: Blackness and Academic PathwaysCommentary on Part II: Blackness in the Canadian Academy: Challenges, Contestations, and Contradictions Wisdom J. Tettey6. Hidden Figures: Black Scholars in the Early Canadian AcademyMalinda S. Smith7. Committed to Employment Equity? Impediments to Obtaining University Appointments Carl E. James8 Black Gay Scholar and the Provocation of Promotion Wesley Crichlow9 "Certain Uncertainty": Phenomenology of an African Canadian Professor Tamari Kitossa10. Socio-Cultural Obligations and the Academic Career: The Dual Expectations Facing Black Canadian Academics Kay-Ann Williams and Gervan FearonPart Three: Blackness: A Complicated Canadian ConversationCommentary on Part III: "Killing Us Softly" – with Questions Annette Henry11. Fitting (Out-Fitting) In Henry Daniel12. The Caged Bird Still Sings in Harmony: The Academy, Spoken Word Poetry, and the Making of Community Emmanuel Tabi13. States of Being: The Poet & Scholar as a Black, African, & Diasporic Woman Juliane Okot Bitek14. Intersectionality in Blackface: When Post-racial Nationalism Meets Black Feminism Délice Mugabo15. Re-spatializing the Boundaries of Belonging: The Subversive Blackness of Muslim Women Jan-Therese MendesPart Four: Black Pasts, Black FuturityCommentary on Part IV: Surviving Anti-Blackness: Vulnerability, Speaking Back, and Building Black Futurity Shirley Anne Tate16. (Re)situating Black Studies at York University: Unsilencing the Past, Locating the Present, Routing Futures at the York University Black Graduate Students’ Collective17. Community Service Learning and Anti-Blackness: The Cost of Playing with Fire on the Black Female BodyDelores v. Mullings18. Blackness and the Limits of Institutional Good Will Omisoore H. Dryden19. Leadership in Neoliberal Times: A Road to Nowhere Jennifer R. Kelly20. Vocation of the Black Scholar in the Neoliberal Academy: A Love Story Adelle Blackett21. The Changing Same: Black Lives Matter, the Work of History, and the Historian’s Craft Barrington Walker22. Charting Black Presence and Futures in the Canadian Academy Malinda S. SmithContributors

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