Black racialization and resistance at an elite 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 identification...
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press
[2020]
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009671476206719 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover ; Title page ; Copyright ; Contents ; Acknowledgments ; 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 ; 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 Quebec ; Anticolonial Resistance and Black Power ; "That ... Statue" ; Conclusion: On a Critical Engagement with History
- 4. The Idealized Elite University ; Class and Class-Mindedness ; The McGill Bubble: A "Sea of Whiteness" ; "White Hallways" by Cora-Lee ; 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
- Naming Race and Racism ; "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. Academic Service and Resistance within the Neoliberal University ; "Diversity and Equity" Work ; Hiring Committees ; The Africana Studies Committee ; Conclusion: Towards Informed Decision Making ; Final Thoughts ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index.
