Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy : Teaching, Learning, and Researching while Black
Record details
- ISBN: 9781487528713
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (488 p.) : 4 b&w illustrations, 5 b&w figures
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Computer data. - Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
General Note: | CatMonthString:january.23 Multi-User. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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 -- Part One: Blackness: What's in a Name? -- Commentary on Part One: Why the Study of Blackness Is Critical at This Historical Juncture -- 1. The Awkward Presence of Blackness in the Canadian Academy -- 2. Exposed! The Ivory Tower's Code Noir -- 3. The Precariat African-Canadian Academic: Problematic Historical Constructions, Perpetual Struggles for Recognition -- 4. What Have Deleuze and Guattari Got to Do with Blackness? A Rhizomatic Analysis of Blackness -- 5. Dancing with the Invisibility/Inaudibility: Nuances of Blackness in a Francophone Context -- Part Two: Blackness and Academic Pathways -- Commentary on Part Two: Blackness in the Canadian Academy: Challenges, Contestations, and Contradictions -- 6. Hidden Figures: Black Scholars in the Early Canadian Academy -- 7. Committed to Employment Equity? Impediments to Obtaining University Appointments -- 8. Black Gay Scholar and the Provocation of Promotion -- 9. "Certain Uncertainty": Phenomenology of an African Canadian Professor -- 10. Socio-Cultural Obligations and the Academic Career: The Dual Expectations Facing Black Canadian Academics -- Part Three: Blackness: A Complicated Canadian Conversation -- Commentary on Part Three: "Killing Us Softly" - with Questions -- 11. Fitting [Out-Fitting] In -- 12. The Caged Bird Still Sings in Harmony: The Academy, Spoken Word Poetry, and the Making of Community -- 13. States of Being:1 The Poet & Scholar as a Black, African, & Diasporic Woman -- 14. Intersectionality in Blackface: When Post-racial Nationalism Meets Black Feminism -- 15. Re-spatializing the Boundaries of Belonging: The Subversive Blackness of Muslim Women -- Part Four: Black Pasts, Black Futurity -- Commentary on Part Four: Surviving Anti-Blackness: Vulnerability, Speaking Back, and Building Black Futurity -- 16. (Re)situating Black Studies at York University: Unsilencing the Past, Locating the Present, Routing Futures -- 17. Community Service Learning and Anti-Blackness: The Cost of Playing with Fire on the Black Female Body -- 18. Blackness and the Limits of Institutional Goodwill -- 19. Leadership in Neoliberal Times: A Road to Nowhere -- 20. Vocation of the Black Scholar in the Neoliberal Academy: A Love Story -- 21. The Changing Same: Black Lives Matter, the Work of History, and the Historian's Craft -- 22. Charting Black Presence and Futures in the Canadian Academy -- Contributors |
Restrictions on Access Note: | restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization |
Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. Mode of access: Internet. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted through purchase. |
Language Note: | In English. |
Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by publisher. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) |