Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Genesis and Intentions 3
5. Part One: Blackface in the Context of the Canadian Settler-Colonial Nation State
6. 1. Contemporary Blackface in Canada as Performance of Antiblackness 27
7. 2. What’s the Joke? The Black Body as White Pleasure in Canadian Blackface 49
8. 3. Defending Blackface: Performing the “Progressive,” Postracialist Canadian 73
9. 4. Pornotroping Performances: Overt Violence, Un/Gendering, and Sex in Contemporary Blackface 91
10. Part Two: Blackface in Education Contexts in Canada
11. 5. Blackface at University: The Antiblack Logics of Canadian Academia 117
12. 6. “Making Them Better Leaders”: The Pedagogical Imperative, Institutional Priorities, and the Attenuation of Black Anger 141
13. 7. Learning to Get Along at School, or Antiblack Postracialism through Multicultural Education 163
14. 8. The Costs of Belonging for International Students 187
15. 9. Fugitive Learning: Countering Postracialism and Making Black Life at University 201
16. References 225
17. Index 249