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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London :
University of Toronto Press,
[2020]
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- 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.