Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy: Teaching, Learning, and Researching while Black
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鈥檚 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.
Malinda Smith is a Professor in the University of Calgary鈥檚 Political Science Department and the Vice Provost for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
Tamari Kitossa is an Associate Professor in Brock University鈥檚 Department of Sociology. His areas of research include, Black masculinities, anti-Blackness, anti-criminology, and counter-colonial criminology.
Awad Ibrahim is a Professor in the University of Ottawa鈥檚 Faculty of Education. His areas of interest include applied linguistics; Black pop culture and hip-hop; and educational social foundation.
Other publications from this author include:
- Appealing Because He Is Appalling: Black Masculinities, Colonialism, and Erotic Racism (2021)
- Black Immigrants in North America: Essays on Race, Immigration, Identity, Language, Hip-Hop, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Becoming Black (2019)
- In This Together: Blackness, Indigeneity and Hip Hop (2019)
- The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities (2017)
- The Education of African Canadian Children: Critical Perspectives (2016)
- The Rhizome of Blackness: A critical ethnography of Hip-Hop culture, language, identity and the politics of becoming (2014)
- Africa, Including聽Securing Africa: Post-9/11 Discourses on Terrorism. (2010)
- Beyond the 'African Tragedy': Discourses on Development and the Global Economy (2006)
- Globalizing Africa (2003)