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Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy
Teaching, Learning, and Researching While Black
Awad Ibrahim (Edited by), Tamari Kitossa (Edited by), Malinda S. Smith (Edited by), Handel K. Wright (Edited by)
9781487528706
Paperback / softback, published 2 February 2022
488 pages, 4 b&w illustrations, 5 b&w figures
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm, 0.74 kg
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.
List of Figures and Tables Introduction: A Meditation on the Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy Part One: Blackness: What’s in a Name? 1. The Awkward Presence of Blackness in the Canadian Academy 2. Exposed! The Ivory Tower’s Code Noir 3. The Precariat African-Canadian Academic: Problematic Historical Constructions, Perpetual Struggles for Recognition 4. What Have Deleuze and Guattari Got to Do with Blackness? A Rhizomatic Analysis of Blackness 5. Dancing with the Invisibility/Inaudibility: Nuances of Blackness in a Francophone Context Part Two: Blackness and Academic Pathways 6. Hidden Figures: Black Scholars in the Early Canadian Academy 7. Committed to Employment Equity? Impediments to Obtaining University Appointments 8 Black Gay Scholar and the Provocation of Promotion 9 "Certain Uncertainty": Phenomenology of an African Canadian Professor 10. Socio-Cultural Obligations and the Academic Career: The Dual Expectations Facing Black Canadian Academics Part Three: Blackness: A Complicated Canadian Conversation 11. Fitting (Out-Fitting) In 12. The Caged Bird Still Sings in Harmony: The Academy, Spoken Word Poetry, and the Making of Community 13. States of Being: The Poet & Scholar as a Black, African, & Diasporic Woman 14. Intersectionality in Blackface: When Post-racial Nationalism Meets Black Feminism 15. Re-spatializing the Boundaries of Belonging: The Subversive Blackness of Muslim Women Part Four: Black Pasts, Black Futurity 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 18. Blackness and the Limits of Institutional Good Will 19. Leadership in Neoliberal Times: A Road to Nowhere 20. Vocation of the Black Scholar in the Neoliberal Academy: A Love Story 21. The Changing Same: Black Lives Matter, the Work of History, and the Historian’s Craft 22. Charting Black Presence and Futures in the Canadian Academy Contributors
Preface: The Nuances of Blackness: A Genesis and Outline
Acknowledgments
Awad Ibrahim, Tamari Kitossa, Malinda S. Smith, and Handel Kashope Wright
Commentary on Part I: Why the Study of Blackness Is Critical at This Historical Juncture
George J. Sefa Dei
Handel Kashope Wright
Delia D. Douglas
Ali A. Abdi
Awad Ibrahim
Gina Thésée
Commentary on Part II: Blackness in the Canadian Academy: Challenges, Contestations, and Contradictions
Wisdom J. Tettey
Malinda S. Smith
Carl E. James
Wesley Crichlow
Tamari Kitossa
Kay-Ann Williams and Gervan Fearon
Commentary on Part III: "Killing Us Softly" – with Questions
Annette Henry
Henry Daniel
Emmanuel Tabi
Juliane Okot Bitek
Délice Mugabo
Jan-Therese Mendes
Commentary on Part IV: Surviving Anti-Blackness: Vulnerability, Speaking Back, and Building Black Futurity
Shirley Anne Tate
Delores v. Mullings
Omisoore H. Dryden
Jennifer R. Kelly
Adelle Blackett
Barrington Walker
Malinda S. Smith