African Canadian Leadership : Continuity, Transition, and Transformation / Tamari Kitossa, Erica S. Lawson, Philip S.S. Howard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Howard, Philip S.S., editor.

Kitossa, Tamari, editor.

Lawson, Erica S., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership--Canada.

Leadership.

Canada--Race relations.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Challenging the myth of African Canadian leadership "in crisis," this book opens a broad vista of inquiry into the many and dynamic ways leadership practices occur in Black Canadian communities. Exploring topics including Black women's contributions to African Canadian communities, the Black Lives Matter movement, Black LGBTQ, HIV/AIDS advocacy, motherhood and grieving, mentoring, and anti-racism, contributors appraise the complex history and contemporary reality of blackness and leadership in Canada. With Canada as a complex site of Black diasporas, contributors offer an account of multiple forms of leadership and suggest that through surveillance and disruption, practices of self-determined Black leadership are incompatible with, and threatening to, White "structures" of power in Canada. As a whole, African Canadian Leadership offers perspectives that are complex, non-aligned, and in critical conversation about class, gender, sexuality, and the politics of African Canadian communities.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword / Foster, Cecil

Introduction: Interrogating the Notion of Crisis in African Canadian Leadership / Kitossa, Tamari / Howard, Philip S. S. / Lawson, Erica S.

Part One: Models and Theories

1. Black Leadership and White Logic: Models of Community Engagement / James, Carl E.

2. War on Multiple Fronts: Black Leadership and Backlash Politics in the Context of Policing Controversies / Williams, Christopher J.

3. African Canadian Leadership and the Metaphoricality of "Crisis": Towards Theorizing, Research, and Practice / Kitossa, Tamari

4. African Canadian Leadership: Pan-Africanism, Transnationality, and Community Organizing / Gooden, Amoaba

Part Two: Women and Leadership

5. To Commit and to Lead: Black Women Organizing across Communities in Montreal / Hampton, Rosalind / Rochat, Désirée

6. Standing Firm on Uneven Ground: A Letter to Black Women on Academic Leadership / Henry, Annette

7. Mercy for Their Children: A Feminist Reading of Black Women's Maternal Activism and Leadership Practices / Lawson, Erica S.

Part Three: Organizing and Mobilizing

8. Forging Fortuity, Asserting Humanity: The Emotional Labour and Resistance of Black Racial Equity Leaders in Predominantly White Institutions / Howard, Philip S. S.

9. "Movin' On Up" in the Age of Neo-liberalism: Reflections on Black Middle-Class Consciousness and the Implications for Black Unity, Leadership, and Activism / Gosine, Kevin

10. Building Capacity and Making History: African Canadian Leadership in Ontario's HIV/AIDS Sector / Baidoobonso, Shamara

Part Four: The Politics of Black Ways of Life

11. Black Consciousness and the Heteronormative Sexual Politics of Black Leadership in Toronto: A Commentary / Crichlow, Wesley

12. "Is There No Balm in Gilead?": The Search for Radical Leadership in the Black Church of the Twenty-First Century / Banahene Adjei, Paul

Part Five: Black Intellectuals

13. An Indigenous Africentric Perspective on Black Leadership / Sefa Dei, George J.

14. Just Below the Threshold: A Conversation with David Austin on Black Leadership / Tecle, Sam / Austin, David

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-3141-9

1-4875-3140-0

OCLC:

1108619648