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Tamari Kitossa

Tamari Kitossa

Dr Tamari Kitossa is Associate Professor of Sociology at Brock University. He earned his BA (Hons) and Magisteriate degree at York University and his PhD at OISE/University of Toronto. Research and instructional interests include: Blackness and anti-Blackness; Black masculinities; African Canadian leadership; anti-criminology and counter-colonial criminology; interracial unions; gender, sex and sexuality; race; the sociology of knowledge; and war and militarism. Toward a general understanding of the dialectical relationship between social order and resistance, he reads widely across the disciplines of sociology and social-psychology; anthropology; economic, political and social history; race and moral philosophy; social theory; and sociology of knowledge and science studies. He is contributor and editor of Appealing Because He Is Appalling: Black Masculinities, Colonialism and Erotic Racism (University of Alberta Press, 2021). With Erica Lawson and Philip S. S. Howard, he is lead editor and contributor to African Canadian Leadership: Continuity, Transition, and Transformation (University of Toronto Press, 2019). Along with Awad Ibrahim, Malinda Smith, and Handel K. Wright, he is co-editor and contributor to Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy: Teaching, Learning and Researching while Black (University of Toronto Press, 2022).

Research keywords: Blackness; anti-Blackness; anti-criminology; race and racialization