Acknowledgements
Prelude
Finding a Conversation
"Becoming" an Activist
1. Introduction: The University as a Site of Struggle
Settler Colonialism and Education: A Brief Overview
The Canadian University
Whose University? The 1960s
Black Educational Activism and Black (Canadian) Studies
Neoliberalism and the University
On Critical Race Counter-Storytelling
2. Colonial Legacies and Canadian Ivy
Meeting James McGill
Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Economy
The University and its Sponsors
McGill Lineage
3. Trying to Keep Canada White and the Power to Write History
McGill and the Modernization of Québec
Anticolonial Resistance and Black Power
Toward a New Millennium
Conclusion: On a Critical Engagement with History
4. The Idealized Elite University
Class and Class-Minded-ness
"The McGill Bubble": A "Sea of Whiteness"
White Hallways by Cora-Lee Conway
The professoriate
On Mentorship and Academic "Expertise"
The Power of the Prof
Conclusion: Expectations Meet Experience
5. Being and Becoming Black
A Word on Whiteness
Socialization in a Culture of Whiteness
"I didn’t know I was Black"
Black Canadian "identity problems"
Managing Interlocking Stereotype Threats
Construction Work
Black as in Radical, Radical as in Rooted
Community and Communing
Conclusion: Navigating and Resisting Racialization and Colonial Ideology
6. Serving Up Resistance
"Diversity & equity" work
Hiring committees
The Africana Studies Committee
Mapping Power and Informed Decision Making
Conclusion
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