Nuances of blackness in the Canadian academy : teaching, learning, and researching while Black / edited by Awad Ibrahim, Tamari Kitossa, Malinda S. Smith, and Handel K. Wright.
"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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
[2022]
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| Summary: | "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 a Black body. Second, they challenge the stubborn durability of anti-Black tropes, the dehumanization of Blackness, persistent deficit ideology, 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 re-imagines 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."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : color illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781487528720 1487528728 148752871X 9781487528713 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 13, 2022) |