About Malinda S. Smith 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. Books by Malinda S. Smith Critical Concepts An Introduction to Politics edited by Janine Brodie, Sandra Rein & Malinda S. Smith 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 The Equity Myth Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities by (author) Frances Henry, Enakshi Dua, Carl E. James, Audrey Kobayashi, Peter Li, Howard Ramos & Malinda S. Smith