Title:
Colour matters : essays on the experiences, education, and pursuits of Black youth
Author:
Publication Date:
2021
Publication Information:
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
©2021
Physical Description:
xxxvi, 354 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781487508678
9781487526313
Abstract:
"Based on research conducted throughout Black communities, along with over thirty years of teaching experience, "Colour Matters," as the youth described their experiences, presents a collection of essays that engages educators, youth workers, and policymakers to think about the discursive ways in which race shapes the education and community-based aspirations and achievements of African Canadians. Informed by the current socio-political Canadian landscape, Colour Matters covers topics relating to the lives of Black youth, with particular, though not exclusively, examination of Black young men, in the Greater Toronto Area. The essays reflect the issues and concerns of the past thirty years, and question what has changed and what has remained the same, in the lives of Black youth. Each essay is accompanied by an insightful response from a scholar engaging with topics, ranging from immigration, schooling, to athletics, mentorship, and police surveillance. With the perspectives of scholars from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, Colour Matters provides provocative narratives of Black gendered experiences that, by comparison, alert us to what more might be said, or said differently, about the social, cultural, educational, political, and occupational worlds of Black youth in Toronto. This book probes the ongoing need to understand, in nuanced and complex ways, the marginalization and racialization of Black youth in a time of growing demands for a societal response to anti-Black racism."-- Provided by publisher
Contents:
1. Historical and social context of the schooling and education of African Canadians ; Response: Complicating gender and racial identities within the study of educational history / Funke Aladejebi -- 2. Generational differences in Black students' school performance ; Response : It's the same with Black British Caribbean pupils / Shirley Anne Tate -- 3. "To make a better future" : narrative of a 1.5 generation Caribbean-Canadian ; Response : using gender to think through migration, love, and student success / Amoaba Gooden -- 4. Students "at risk" : stereotypes and the schooling of Black boys ; Response: Black Lives Matter in the USA and Canada / Joyce E. King -- More than brains and hard work : the aspirations and career trajectories of two young Black Men ; Response: What folks don't get : race and class matter / Annette M. Henry -- 6. Class, race, and schooling in the performance of Black male athleticism ; Response : Basketball's Black creative labour and the mitigation of Anti-Black schooling / Mark V. Campbell -- 7. Troubling role models : seeing racialization in the discourse relating to "corrective agents" for Black males ; Response: Black role models and mentorship under racial capitalism / Sam Tecle -- 8. "Up to no good" : Black on the streets and encountering police -- Response: It could have been written today : a montrealer's reflection / Adelle Blackett -- 9. "Colour matters" : suburban life as social mobility and its high cost for Black youth ; Response: Respectability politics and the search for upward mobility in Canada / Andrea A. Davis -- 10. Toward equity in education for Black students ; Response: "I will treat all my students with respect" : the limits to good intentions / Leanne Taylor.
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Language:
English
