List of 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
Awad Ibrahim, Tamari Kitossa, Malinda S. Smith, and Handel Kashope
Wright
Part One: Blackness: What’s in a Name?
Commentary on Part I: Why the Study of Blackness Is Critical at
This Historical Juncture
George J. Sefa Dei
1. The Awkward Presence of Blackness in the Canadian Academy
Handel Kashope Wright
2. Exposed! The Ivory Tower’s Code Noir
Delia D. Douglas
3. The Precariat African-Canadian Academic: Problematic Historical
Constructions, Perpetual Struggles for Recognition
Ali A. Abdi
4. What Have Deleuze and Guattari Got to Do with Blackness? A
Rhizomatic Analysis of Blackness
Awad Ibrahim
5. Dancing with the Invisibility/Inaudibility: Nuances of Blackness
in a Francophone Context
Gina Thésée
Part Two: Blackness and Academic Pathways
Commentary on Part II: Blackness in the Canadian Academy:
Challenges, Contestations, and Contradictions
Wisdom J. Tettey
6. Hidden Figures: Black Scholars in the Early Canadian Academy
Malinda S. Smith
7. Committed to Employment Equity? Impediments to Obtaining
University Appointments
Carl E. James
8 Black Gay Scholar and the Provocation of Promotion
Wesley Crichlow
9 “Certain Uncertainty”: Phenomenology of an African Canadian
Professor
Tamari Kitossa
10. Socio-Cultural Obligations and the Academic Career: The Dual
Expectations Facing Black Canadian Academics
Kay-Ann Williams and Gervan Fearon
Part Three: Blackness: A Complicated Canadian Conversation
Commentary on Part III: “Killing Us Softly” – with Questions
Annette Henry
11. Fitting (Out-Fitting) In
Henry Daniel
12. The Caged Bird Still Sings in Harmony: The Academy, Spoken Word
Poetry, and the Making of Community
Emmanuel Tabi
13. States of Being: The Poet & Scholar as a Black, African, &
Diasporic Woman
Juliane Okot Bitek
14. Intersectionality in Blackface: When Post-racial Nationalism
Meets Black Feminism
Délice Mugabo
15. Re-spatializing the Boundaries of Belonging: The Subversive
Blackness of Muslim Women
Jan-Therese Mendes
Part Four: Black Pasts, Black Futurity
Commentary on Part IV: Surviving Anti-Blackness: Vulnerability,
Speaking Back, and Building Black Futurity
Shirley Anne Tate
16. (Re)situating Black Studies at York University: Unsilencing the
Past, Locating the Present, Routing Futures at the York University
Black Graduate Students’ Collective
17. Community Service Learning and Anti-Blackness: The Cost of
Playing with Fire on the Black Female Body
Delores v. Mullings
18. Blackness and the Limits of Institutional Good Will
Omisoore H. Dryden
19. Leadership in Neoliberal Times: A Road to Nowhere
Jennifer R. Kelly
20. Vocation of the Black Scholar in the Neoliberal Academy: A Love
Story
Adelle Blackett
21. The Changing Same: Black Lives Matter, the Work of History, and
the Historian’s Craft
Barrington Walker
22. Charting Black Presence and Futures in the Canadian Academy
Malinda S. Smith
Contributors
Awad Ibrahim is a professor and curriculum theorist in the Faculty
of Education at the University of Ottawa. Tamari Kitossa is an
associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Brock
University.
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. Handel K. Wright is
the inaugural senior advisor to the president on anti-racism and
inclusive excellence; the director of the Centre for Culture,
Identity, and Education; and a professor in the Department of
Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia.
Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy gathers highly
respected scholars vested incritical pedgaogy as well as critical
race and feminist theories . Altogether, they have provided a rich
review of relevant literature on interconnected themes explored in
their respective chapters. This volume will be ideal for those
interested in critical race and ethnic studies, Black studies,
sociology, sociology of education, multicultural education,
postcolonial theory, and history. - Pierre W. Orelus, Associate
Professor of Educational Studies and Teacher Preparation, Fairfield
University
This is undoubtedly a much-needed book in the archives of the
Canadian academy. Exploring the multiplicity and complexity of the
experiences of Black scholars in Canada, the authors express a
common theme throughout this collection of essays - the various
forms of anti-Black racism experienced by the Black scholar and the
perpetual struggle against exclusion from the deeply ingrained
culture of whiteness that characterizes institutions of higher
learning in Canada. - Joy Mighty, Professor Emerita and Former
Associate Vice-President (Teaching and Learning), Carleton
University
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