Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy: Teaching, Learning, and Researching while Black

The essays in Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy reveal the hidden stories of Black life in academia and challenge the dominant idea of Blackness. They offer fresh insights into teaching, learning, research, and work while Black, resisting singular constructions and confronting anti-Black tropes. Contributors reflect on how Blackness shapes academic pathways, ignites conversations, and reimagines Black pasts, presents, and futures, contributing to a more nuanced understanding of Blackness in the academy and its implications for post-secondary education, Black communities, and global Black diasporas.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 488 pages
Publication date: 02 February 2022
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

The essays in Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy unveil the hidden narratives of Black life within academia, providing invaluable historical, social, and cultural perspectives on the experiences of teaching, learning, conducting research, and working while Black. By boldly moving from the periphery to the center, the contributors to these books challenge two interconnected themes. Firstly, they resist the oversimplification of Blackness, which obscures the rich diversity and complexities of what it means to be and navigate the academy as Black individuals. Secondly, they confront the persistent persistence of anti-Black tropes, the dehumanization of Blackness, the perpetuation of deficit ideologies, and the tyranny of low expectations that pervade the dominant conception of Blackness in the white colonial imagination. These essays operate at the intersection of discourse and experience, allowing contributors to reflect on how Blackness shapes academic trajectories, sparks challenging and often complex conversations, and reimagines Black histories, presents, and futures. This exceptional collection makes a significant contribution to the refinement of nuanced understandings of how Blackness is created, dismantled, and reconstructed within the academy, as well as its implications for interconnected dynamics within post-secondary education, Black communities in Canada, and global Black diasporas.

Weight: 734g
Dimension: 152 x 230 x 33 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781487528706