Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University

"Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University is an important scholarly contribution to educational history broadly and more specifically in its documentation of Black experiences in Canadian universities. It is a welcomed intervention in the institutional histories of the Canadian academy that is often whitewashed and actively erases the presence and activism of Black students, faculty, and community members."

Natasha Henry, Historical Studies in Education, Vol. 33, No. 1

“Connecting freighted colonial legacies in Montreal with a long history of the university as a site of struggle, Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University uses an astonishing breadth of texts across fields including critical postcolonial studies, race studies, history, sociology, Scottish studies, and studies in education.” Barrington Walker, Department of History, Wilfrid Laurier University

“Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University presents an innovative and highly insightful study of how processes of racialization are infused with racial microaggressions to ‘produce’ Blackness within the Canadian university. By showing how both the commonality and the diversity within Black experiences are given shape in the ‘bubble of whiteness’ that is McGill, rosalind hampton demonstrates how self-serving is the claim of Canadian universities that ‘diversity’ is a recent phenomenon that the institution is only now learning how to negotiate.” Sunera Thobani, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia