Format:
1 online resource (224 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781487530044
Content:
A historical narrative and critical analysis of higher education centred on the experiences of Black students and faculty at McGill University.
Content:
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 Québec -- 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.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781487524869
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781487524869
Language:
English
