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Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy

Teaching, Learning, and Researching while Black

edited by Awad Ibrahim, Tamari Kitossa, Malinda S. Smith & Handel K. Wright

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2022
Category
Higher, Organizations & Institutions, General, Black Studies (Global)
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781487528690
    Publish Date
    Feb 2022
    List Price
    $95.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781487528706
    Publish Date
    Feb 2022
    List Price
    $39.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487528720
    Publish Date
    Dec 2021
    List Price
    $42.95

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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.

About the authors

Awad Ibrahim is a professor and curriculum theorist in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa.

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Tamari Kitossa is Associate Professor of Sociology at Brock University. He studies the convergences of race, racism, and criminalization. He is a contributor to and co-editor of African Canadian Leadership.

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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.

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Handel Kashope Wright is the inaugural Senior Advisor to the President on Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence, Director of the Centre for Culture, Identity, and Education, and a professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia.

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