African Canadian Leadership: Continuity, Transition, and Transformation

Introduction: Interrogating the Notion of Crisis in African Canadian Leadership
Tamari Kitossa, Brock University, Erica S. Lawson, University of Western Ontario, and Philip S.S. Howard

Part One: Models and Theories
1. Black Leadership and White Logic: Models of Community Engagement
Carl E. James, York University
2. War on Multiple Fronts: Black Leadership and Backlash Politics in the Context of Policing Controversies
Christopher J. Williams, Anti-Racism Directorate
3. African Canadian Leadership and the Metaphoricality of "Crisis": Toward Theorizing, Research, and Practice
Tamari Kitossa, Brock University
4. African Canadian Leadership: Pan-Africanism, Trans-nationality, and Community Organizing
Amoaba Gooden, Kent State University

Part Two: Women and Leadership
5. To Commit and to Lead: Black Women Organizing across Communities in Montreal
Rosalind Hampton, University of Toronto - OISE and Désirée Rochat, McGill University
6. Standing Firm on Uneven Ground: A Letter to Black Women on Academic Leadership
Annette Henry, University of Britsh Columbia
7. Mercy for Their Children: A Feminist Reading of Black Women’s Maternal Activism and Leadership Practice
Erica S. Lawson, University of Western Ontario

Part Three: Organizing and Mobilizing
8. Forging Fortuity, Asserting Humanity: The Emotional Labour and Resistance of Black Racial Equity Leaders in Predominantly White Institutions
Philip S.S. Howard
9. "Movin’ On Up" in the Age of Neoliberalism: Reflections on Black Middle-Class Consciousness and the Implications for Black Unity, Leadership, and Activism
Kevin Gosine, Brock University
10. Building Capacity and Making History: African Canadian Leadership in Ontario’s HIV/AIDS Sector
Shamara Baidoobonso, Research Committee of the African and Caribbean Council on HIV/AIDS in Ontario

Part Four: The Politics of the Personal
11. Black Consciousness and the Sexual Politics of Black Leadership in Toronto: A Commentary
Wesley Crichlow, University of Ontario Institute Technology
12. "Is There No Balm in Gilead?" The Search for Radical Leadership in the Black Church of the Twenty-First Century
Paul Banahene Adjei, Memorial University

Part Five: Black Intellectuals
13. An Indigenous Africentric Perspective on Black Leadership
George J. Sefa Dei, University of Toronto - OISE
14. Just Below the Threshold: A Conversation with David Austin on Black Leadership
Sam Tecle, York University and David Austin, John Abbott College