{"product_id":"nuances-of-blackness-in-the-canadian-academy-9781487528706","title":"Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis path-breaking collaboration by leading Black scholars examines the complexities of Black life in Canadian post-secondary education.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures and Tables  Preface: The Nuances of Blackness: A Genesis and Outline  Acknowledgments    Introduction: A Meditation on the Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy  Awad Ibrahim, Tamari Kitossa, Malinda S. Smith, and Handel Kashope Wright   Part One: Blackness: What’s in a Name? Commentary on Part I: Why the Study of Blackness Is Critical at This Historical Juncture  George J. Sefa Dei   1. The Awkward Presence of Blackness in the Canadian Academy  Handel Kashope Wright   2. Exposed! The Ivory Tower’s Code Noir  Delia D. Douglas   3. The Precariat African-Canadian Academic: Problematic Historical Constructions, Perpetual Struggles for Recognition  Ali A. Abdi   4. What Have Deleuze and Guattari Got to Do with Blackness? A Rhizomatic Analysis of Blackness  Awad Ibrahim   5. Dancing with the Invisibility\/Inaudibility: Nuances of Blackness in a Francophone Context Gina Thésée   Part Two: Blackness and Academic Pathways Commentary on Part II: Blackness in the Canadian Academy: Challenges, Contestations, and Contradictions  Wisdom J. Tettey   6. Hidden Figures: Black Scholars in the Early Canadian Academy Malinda S. Smith   7. Committed to Employment Equity? Impediments to Obtaining University Appointments  Carl E. James   8 Black Gay Scholar and the Provocation of Promotion  Wesley Crichlow   9 “Certain Uncertainty”: Phenomenology of an African Canadian Professor  Tamari Kitossa   10. Socio-Cultural Obligations and the Academic Career: The Dual Expectations Facing Black Canadian Academics  Kay-Ann Williams and Gervan Fearon   Part Three: Blackness: A Complicated Canadian Conversation Commentary on Part III: “Killing Us Softly” – with Questions  Annette Henry   11. Fitting (Out-Fitting) In  Henry Daniel   12. The Caged Bird Still Sings in Harmony: The Academy, Spoken Word Poetry, and the Making of Community  Emmanuel Tabi   13. States of Being: The Poet \u0026amp; Scholar as a Black, African, \u0026amp; Diasporic Woman  Juliane Okot Bitek   14. Intersectionality in Blackface: When Post-racial Nationalism Meets Black Feminism  Délice Mugabo   15. Re-spatializing the Boundaries of Belonging: The Subversive Blackness of Muslim Women  Jan-Therese Mendes   Part Four: Black Pasts, Black Futurity Commentary on Part IV: Surviving Anti-Blackness: Vulnerability, Speaking Back, and Building Black Futurity  Shirley Anne Tate   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 Delores v. Mullings   18. Blackness and the Limits of Institutional Good Will  Omisoore H. Dryden   19. Leadership in Neoliberal Times: A Road to Nowhere  Jennifer R. Kelly   20. Vocation of the Black Scholar in the Neoliberal Academy: A Love Story  Adelle Blackett   21. The Changing Same: Black Lives Matter, the Work of History, and the Historian’s Craft  Barrington Walker   22. Charting Black Presence and Futures in the Canadian Academy  Malinda S. Smith   Contributors","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52195289760087,"sku":"9781487528706","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487528706.jpg?v=1763647063","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/nuances-of-blackness-in-the-canadian-academy-9781487528706","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}