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Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy: Teaching, Learning, and Researching while Black

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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’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.

About the Author

Malinda Smith is a Professor in the University of Calgary’s Political Science Department and the Vice Provost for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.

Tamari Kitossa is an Associate Professor in Brock University’s 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’s Faculty of Education. His areas of interest include applied linguistics; Black pop culture and hip-hop; and educational social foundation.

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