Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University - rosalind hampton

Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University

Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2020
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0438-0 (ISBN)
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A historical narrative and critical analysis of higher education centred on the experiences of Black students and faculty at McGill University.
The presence and experiences of Black people at elite universities have been largely underrepresented and erased from institutional histories. This book engages with a collection of these experiences that span half a century and reflect differences in class, gender, and national identifications among Black scholars. By mapping Black people’s experiences of studying and teaching at McGill University, this book reveals how the "whiteness" of the university both includes and exceeds the racial identities of students and professors. It highlights the specific functions of Blackness and of anti-Blackness within society in general and within the institution of higher education in particular, demonstrating how structures and practices of the university reproduce interlocking systems of oppression that uphold racial capitalism, reproduce colonial relations, and promote settler nationalism. Critically engaging the work of Black learners, academics, organizers, and activists within this dynamic political context, this book underscores the importance of Black Studies across North America.

rosalind hampton is an assistant professor in the Department of Social Justice Education at the University of Toronto

Acknowledgements



Prelude
Finding a Conversation
"Becoming" an Activist

1. Introduction: The University as a Site of Struggle
Settler Colonialism and Education: A Brief Overview
The Canadian University
    Whose University? The 1960s
    Black Educational Activism and Black (Canadian) Studies
Neoliberalism and the University
On Critical Race Counter-Storytelling

2. Colonial Legacies and Canadian Ivy
Meeting James McGill
    Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Economy
    The University and its Sponsors
McGill Lineage

3. Trying to Keep Canada White and the Power to Write History
McGill and the Modernization of Québec
Anticolonial Resistance and Black Power
Toward a New Millennium
Conclusion: On a Critical Engagement with History

4. The Idealized Elite University
Class and Class-Minded-ness
"The McGill Bubble": A "Sea of Whiteness"
    White Hallways by Cora-Lee Conway
The professoriate
    On Mentorship and Academic "Expertise"
    The Power of the Prof
Conclusion: Expectations Meet Experience

5. Being and Becoming Black
A Word on Whiteness
Socialization in a Culture of Whiteness
    "I didn’t know I was Black"
    Black Canadian "identity problems"
Managing Interlocking Stereotype Threats
Construction Work
Black as in Radical, Radical as in Rooted
    Community and Communing
Conclusion: Navigating and Resisting Racialization and Colonial Ideology

6. Serving Up Resistance
"Diversity & equity" work
Hiring committees
The Africana Studies Committee
Mapping Power and Informed Decision Making

Conclusion



Bibliography

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Zusatzinfo 1 b&w illustration
Verlagsort Toronto
Sprache englisch
Maße 159 x 235 mm
Gewicht 450 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4875-0438-1 / 1487504381
ISBN-13 978-1-4875-0438-0 / 9781487504380
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