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Book SynopsisAs schools continue to grapple with creating diverse educational programs for all Canadians, Schooling the System is a timely excavation of the meaningful contributions of black women educators who helped create equitable policies and practices in schools and communities.
Trade Review"This groundbreaking book – the first of its kind – studies educators' narratives within a complex history of segregated and separate schools, teacher shortages, and a growing immigrant student population. Well researched, absorbing, and timely, Schooling the System is a reminder that black women specialize in the wholly impossible." Karen Flynn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and author of Moving Beyond Borders: A History of Black Canadian and Caribbean Women in the Diaspora
"With this engaging study, Funké Aladejebi fills important gaps and silences in Canadian black women's herstories and in the documentation of their transformative pedagogical work despite systemic barriers. Schooling the System is a critical text for understanding Canadian education and Canadian society – and a fascinating read!" Annette Henry, University of British Columbia and author of Taking Back Control: African Canadian Women Teacher's Lives and Practice
"This meticulously researched book tells the stories of black women educators who were called upon for their labour as cultural mediators in schools that defined themselves as multicultural but who confronted enforced invisibility by systems that remained rooted in white supremacy. These are the histories we must know if we are to work towards antiracist education in Canada." Kristina R. Llewellyn, University of Waterloo and author of Democracy's Angels: The Work of Women Teachers
"This manuscript is definitely a welcome critical race intervention into the history of education and beyond. Schooling the System makes a major contribution to both the history of education and African Canadian history." Ontario History
"Schooling the System: a history of Black women teachers, narrates the upliftment, empowerment, and advancement of black women educators under a system of institutional gendered racism and discrimination in Ontario. It can be enjoyed as a recreational read, an academic text for teacher education students, or a tool for professional development in schools." Canadian Journal of Education/Revue Canadienne de l’éducation
