Foreword
D. Alissa Trotz
Introduction: Exploring the Social and Educational Experiences of Black Canadian Youth Over Time
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
5. 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
Epilogue
Michele A. Johnson
Acknowledgements
Biographies of Contributors/Respondents