African Canadian Leadership

Continuity, Transition, and Transformation
Herausgeber: Kitossa, Tamari; Howard, Philip S S; Lawson, Erica S

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the product of voices and perspectives from African Canadian intellectuals across Canada on leadership and African Canadian communities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781487523664
• ISBN-10: 1487523661
• Artikelnr.: 55893221

Autorenporträt

Tamari Kitossa is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Brock University. Erica S. Lawson is an associate professor in the Department of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research at The University of Western Ontario. Philip S.S. Howard is an associate professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University.

Inhaltsangabe

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