Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables ix
4. Preface: The Nuances of Blackness – A Genesis and Outline xi
5. Acknowledgments xxi
6. Introduction: A Meditation on the Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy 1
7. Part One: Blackness: What’s in a Name?
8. Commentary on Part One: Why the Study of Blackness Is Critical at This Historical Juncture 17
9. 1. The Awkward Presence of Blackness in the Canadian Academy 23
10. 2. Exposed! The Ivory Tower’s Code Noir 45
11. 3. The Precariat African-Canadian Academic: Problematic Historical Constructions, Perpetual Struggles for Recognition 63
12. 4. What Have Deleuze and Guattari Got to Do with Blackness? A Rhizomatic Analysis of Blackness 77
13. 5. Dancing with the Invisibility/Inaudibility: Nuances of Blackness in a Francophone Context 88
14. Part Two: Blackness and Academic Pathways
15. Commentary on Part Two: Blackness in the Canadian Academy: Challenges, Contestations, and Contradictions 111
16. 6. Hidden Figures: Black Scholars in the Early Canadian Academy 123
17. 7. Committed to Employment Equity? Impediments to Obtaining University Appointments 153
18. 8. Black Gay Scholar and the Provocation of Promotion 168
19. 9. “Certain Uncertainty”: Phenomenology of an African Canadian Professor 181
20. 10. Socio-Cultural Obligations and the Academic Career: The Dual Expectations Facing Black Canadian Academics 204
21. Part Three: Blackness: A Complicated Canadian Conversation
22. Commentary on Part Three: “Killing Us Softly” – with Questions 225
23. 11. Fitting [Out-Fitting] In 231
24. 12. The Caged Bird Still Sings in Harmony: The Academy, Spoken Word Poetry, and the Making of Community 244
25. 13. States of Being:1 The Poet & Scholar as a Black, African, & Diasporic Woman 255
26. 14. Intersectionality in Blackface: When Post-racial Nationalism Meets Black Feminism 272
27. 15. Re-spatializing the Boundaries of Belonging: The Subversive Blackness of Muslim Women 291
28. Part Four: Black Pasts, Black Futurity
29. Commentary on Part Four: Surviving Anti-Blackness: Vulnerability, Speaking Back, and Building Black Futurity 311
30. 16. (Re)situating Black Studies at York University: Unsilencing the Past, Locating the Present, Routing Futures 319
31. 17. Community Service Learning and Anti-Blackness: The Cost of Playing with Fire on the Black Female Body 345
32. 18. Blackness and the Limits of Institutional Goodwill 372
33. 19. Leadership in Neoliberal Times: A Road to Nowhere 386
34. 20. Vocation of the Black Scholar in the Neoliberal Academy: A Love Story 401
35. 21. The Changing Same: Black Lives Matter, the Work of History, and the Historian’s Craft 417
36. 22. Charting Black Presence and Futures in the Canadian Academy 431
37. Contributors 461