Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword: The Long Game vii
4. Introduction: Exploring the Social and Educational Experiences of Black Canadian Youth over Time xv
5. 1 Historical and Social Context of the Schooling and Education of African Canadians 1
6. Response to Chapter 1 Complicating Gender and Racial Identities within the Study of Educational History 43
7. 2 Generational Differences in Black Students’ Education Pursuits and Performance 47
8. Response to Chapter 2 It’s the Same with Black British Caribbean Pupils 72
9. 3 “To Make a Better Future”: Narrative of a 1.5-Generation Caribbean Canadian 76
10. Response to Chapter 3 Using Gender to Think Through Migration, Love, and Student Success 107
11. 4 Students “at Risk”: Stereotypes and the Schooling of Black Boys 112
12. Response to Chapter 4 Black Lives Matter in the USA and Canada 141
13. 5 More than Brains, Education, and Hard Work: The Aspirations and Career Trajectories of Two Young Black Men 150
14. Response to Chapter 5 What Folks Don’t Get: Race and Class Matter 169
15. 6 Class, Race, and Schooling in the Performance of Black Male Athleticism 174
16. Response to Chapter 6 Basketball’s Black Creative Labour and the Mitigation of Anti-Black Schooling 191
17. 7 Troubling Role Models: Seeing Racialization in the Discourse Relating to “Corrective Agents” for Black Males 197
18. Response to Chapter 7 Black Role Models and Mentorship under Racial Capitalism 216
19. 8 “Up to No Good”: Black on the Streets and Encountering Police 221
20. Response to Chapter 8 It Could Have Been Written Today: A Montrealer’s Reflection 246
21. 9 “Colour Matters”: Suburban Life as Social Mobility and Its High Cost for Black Youth 251
22. Response to Chapter 9 “What Floats in the Air Is Chance”: Respectability Politics and the Search for Upward Mobility in Canada 278
23. 10 Towards Equity in Education for Black Students in the Greater Toronto Area 283
24. Response to Chapter 10 “I Will Treat All My Students with Respect”: The Limits of Good Intentions 309
25. Epilogue 315
26. Acknowledgments 327
27. Contributors 331
28. Index 335