Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy : Teaching, Learning, and Researching While Black / edited by Awad Ibrahim [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ibrahim, Awad, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Race identity.

Black people.

College teachers, Black.

Discrimination in higher education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (487 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2022]

Summary:

This path-breaking collaboration by leading Black scholars examines the complexities of Black life in Canadian post-secondary education.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

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

Part One: Blackness: What’s in a Name?

Commentary on Part One: Why the Study of Blackness Is Critical at This Historical Juncture

1. The Awkward Presence of Blackness in the Canadian Academy

2. Exposed! The Ivory Tower’s Code Noir

3. The Precariat African-Canadian Academic: Problematic Historical Constructions, Perpetual Struggles for Recognition

4. What Have Deleuze and Guattari Got to Do with Blackness? A Rhizomatic Analysis of Blackness

5. Dancing with the Invisibility/Inaudibility: Nuances of Blackness in a Francophone Context

Part Two: Blackness and Academic Pathways

Commentary on Part Two: Blackness in the Canadian Academy: Challenges, Contestations, and Contradictions

6. Hidden Figures: Black Scholars in the Early Canadian Academy

7. Committed to Employment Equity? Impediments to Obtaining University Appointments

8. Black Gay Scholar and the Provocation of Promotion

9. “Certain Uncertainty”: Phenomenology of an African Canadian Professor

10. Socio-Cultural Obligations and the Academic Career: The Dual Expectations Facing Black Canadian Academics

Part Three: Blackness: A Complicated Canadian Conversation

Commentary on Part Three: “Killing Us Softly” – with Questions

11. Fitting [Out-Fitting] In

12. The Caged Bird Still Sings in Harmony: The Academy, Spoken Word Poetry, and the Making of Community

13. States of Being:1 The Poet & Scholar as a Black, African, & Diasporic Woman

14. Intersectionality in Blackface: When Post-racial Nationalism Meets Black Feminism

15. Re-spatializing the Boundaries of Belonging: The Subversive Blackness of Muslim Women

Part Four: Black Pasts, Black Futurity

Commentary on Part Four: Surviving Anti-Blackness: Vulnerability, Speaking Back, and Building Black Futurity

16. (Re)situating Black Studies at York University: Unsilencing the Past, Locating the Present, Routing Futures

17. Community Service Learning and Anti-Blackness: The Cost of Playing with Fire on the Black Female Body

18. Blackness and the Limits of Institutional Goodwill

19. Leadership in Neoliberal Times: A Road to Nowhere

20. Vocation of the Black Scholar in the Neoliberal Academy: A Love Story

21. The Changing Same: Black Lives Matter, the Work of History, and the Historian’s Craft

22. Charting Black Presence and Futures in the Canadian Academy

Contributors

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Ibrahim, Awad Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy

ISBN:

1-4875-2871-X

1-4875-2872-8

OCLC:

1280137196