Rhizome of Blackness

Awad Ibrahim is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa. He is a curriculum theorist with special interests in cultural studies; Hip-Hop; youth and Black popular culture; social foundations (i.e., philosophy, history and sociology of education); social justice and community service learning; diasporic and continental African identities; ethnography; and applied linguistics. He has researched and published widely in these areas. Among his books are Global Linguistic Flows: Hip-Hop Cultures, Youth Identities and the Politics of Language (2009; with Samy Alim and Alastair Pennycook); Critical Youth Studies: A Reader (Peter Lang, 2014; with Shirley Steinberg); Provoking Curriculum Studies: Strong Poetry and the Arts of the Possible (forthcoming; with Nicholas Ng-A-Fook and Giuliano Reis); and The Education of African Canadian Children: Critical Analyses (forthcoming; with Ali Abdi).

• Contents: We Got a Situation Herre. Race, Culture, Language, and Identity: Theorizing the Rhizomatic Third Space – «Wallahi, ils sont tous des racistes!».Striated Racialization and the Rhizomatic Process of Becoming Black – « Si tu allais faire un sondage, ça vient souvent de l’orientation ou des personnels ». Teachers, Curriculum, and Pedagogy – Interlude: Homeless Urban Dreams by Reenah L. Golden – «Oh, I Got It, It Gives Me Great Pleasure!». Hip-Hop Culture and Language, Post/Coloniality, and the Imaginary – «Peace and One Love!». A Rhizomatic Third Space: Race, Language, Culture, and the Politics of Identity.