Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Introduction: Interrogating the Notion of Crisis in African Canadian Leadership 1
5. Part One: Models and Theories
6. 1. Black Leadership and White Logic: Models of Community Engagement 19
7. 2. War on Multiple Fronts: Black Leadership and Backlash Politics in the Context of Policing Controversies 54
8. 3. African Canadian Leadership and the Metaphoricality of “Crisis”: Towards Theorizing, Research, and Practice 71
9. 4. African Canadian Leadership: Pan-Africanism, Transnationality, and Community Organizing 111
10. Part Two: Women and Leadership
11. 5. To Commit and to Lead: Black Women Organizing across Communities in Montreal 149
12. 6. Standing Firm on Uneven Ground: A Letter to Black Women on Academic Leadership 170
13. 7. Mercy for Their Children: A Feminist Reading of Black Women’s Maternal Activism and Leadership Practices 190
14. Part Three: Organizing and Mobilizing
15. 8. Forging Fortuity, Asserting Humanity: The Emotional Labour and Resistance of Black Racial Equity Leaders in Predominantly White Institutions 213
16. 9. “Movin’ On Up” in the Age of Neo-liberalism: Reflections on Black Middle-Class Consciousness and the Implications for Black Unity, Leadership, and Activism 241
17. 10. Building Capacity and Making History: African Canadian Leadership in Ontario’s HIV/AIDS Sector 263
18. Part Four: The Politics of Black Ways of Life
19. 11. Black Consciousness and the Heteronormative Sexual Politics of Black Leadership in Toronto: A Commentary 289
20. 12. “Is There No Balm in Gilead?”: The Search for Radical Leadership in the Black Church of the Twenty-First Century 311
21. Part Five: Black Intellectuals
22. 13. An Indigenous Africentric Perspective on Black Leadership 345
23. 14. Just Below the Threshold: A Conversation with David Austin on Black Leadership 370
24. Contributors 391
25. Index 395