Colour Matters: Essays on the Experiences, Education, and Pursuits of Black Youth
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: The Long Game -- 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 to Chapter 1 Complicating Gender and Racial Identities within the Study of Educational History -- 2 Generational Differences in Black Students' Education Pursuits and Performance -- Response to Chapter 2 It's the Same with Black British Caribbean Pupils -- 3 "To Make a Better Future": Narrative of a 1.5-Generation Caribbean Canadian -- Response to Chapter 3 Using Gender to Think Through Migration, Love, and Student Success -- 4 Students "at Risk": Stereotypes and the Schooling of Black Boys -- Response to Chapter 4 Black Lives Matter in the USA and Canada -- 5 More than Brains, Education, and Hard Work: The Aspirations and Career Trajectories of Two Young Black Men -- Response to Chapter 5 What Folks Don't Get: Race and Class Matter -- 6 Class, Race, and Schooling in the Performance of Black Male Athleticism -- Response to Chapter 6 Basketball's Black Creative Labour and the Mitigation of Anti-Black Schooling -- 7 Troubling Role Models: Seeing Racialization in the Discourse Relating to "Corrective Agents" for Black Males -- Response to Chapter 7 Black Role Models and Mentorship under Racial Capitalism -- 8 "Up to No Good": Black on the Streets and Encountering Police -- Response to Chapter 8 It Could Have Been Written Today: A Montrealer's Reflection -- 9 "Colour Matters": Suburban Life as Social Mobility and Its High Cost for Black Youth -- Response to Chapter 9 "What Floats in the Air Is Chance": Respectability Politics and the Search for Upward Mobility in Canada -- 10 Towards Equity in Education for Black Students in the Greater Toronto Area -- Response to Chapter 10 "I Will Treat All My Students with Respect": The Limits of Good Intentions -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index