Colour matters : essays on the experiences, education, and pursuits of Black youth / Carl E. James.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

James, Carl E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnic relations.

Toronto (Ont.)--Race relations.

Toronto (Ont.).

Toronto (Ont.)--Ethnic relations.

Ontario--Toronto.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (391 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

Summary:

Based on research conducted in Black communities, along with over thirty years of teaching experience, Colour Matters presents a collection of essays that engages educators, youth workers, and policymakers to think about the ways in which race shapes the education, aspirations, and achievements of Black Canadians. Informed by the current socio-political Canadian landscape, Colour Matters covers topics relating to the lives of Black youth, with particular, though not exclusive, attention to young Black men in the Greater Toronto Area. The essays reflect the issues and concerns of the past thirty years, and question what has changed and what has remained the same. Each essay is accompanied by an insightful response from a scholar engaging with topics such as immigration, schooling, athletics, mentorship, and police surveillance. With the perspectives of scholars from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, Colour Matters provides provocative narratives of Black experiences that alert us to what more might be said, or said differently, about the social, cultural, educational, political, and occupational worlds of Black youth in Canada. This book probes the ongoing need to understand, in nuanced and complex ways, the marginalization and racialization of Black youth in a time of growing demands for a societal response to anti-Black racism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword: The Long Game

Introduction: Exploring the Social and Educational Experiences of Black Canadian Youth over Time

1 Historical and Social Context of the Schooling and Education of African Canadians

Response to Chapter 1 Complicating Gender and Racial Identities within the Study of Educational History

2 Generational Differences in Black Students’ Education Pursuits and Performance

Response to Chapter 2 It’s the Same with Black British Caribbean Pupils

3 “To Make a Better Future”: Narrative of a 1.5-Generation Caribbean Canadian

Response to Chapter 3 Using Gender to Think Through Migration, Love, and Student Success

4 Students “at Risk”: Stereotypes and the Schooling of Black Boys

Response to Chapter 4 Black Lives Matter in the USA and Canada

5 More than Brains, Education, and Hard Work: The Aspirations and Career Trajectories of Two Young Black Men

Response to Chapter 5 What Folks Don’t Get: Race and Class Matter

6 Class, Race, and Schooling in the Performance of Black Male Athleticism

Response to Chapter 6 Basketball’s Black Creative Labour and the Mitigation of Anti-Black Schooling

7 Troubling Role Models: Seeing Racialization in the Discourse Relating to “Corrective Agents” for Black Males

Response to Chapter 7 Black Role Models and Mentorship under Racial Capitalism

8 “Up to No Good”: Black on the Streets and Encountering Police

Response to Chapter 8 It Could Have Been Written Today: A Montrealer’s Reflection

9 “Colour Matters”: Suburban Life as Social Mobility and Its High Cost for Black Youth

Response to Chapter 9 “What Floats in the Air Is Chance”: Respectability Politics and the Search for Upward Mobility in Canada

10 Towards Equity in Education for Black Students in the Greater Toronto Area

Response to Chapter 10 “I Will Treat All My Students with Respect”: The Limits of Good Intentions

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4875-3879-0

1-4875-3878-2

OCLC:

1225511705