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This article investigates the efficacy of community organizing by African Caribbean migrants in Toronto, Ontario. The author argues that community organizing was an instinctive initiative of African Caribbean people. Historically, Black community organizational agenda, although owing much to its own resourcefulness and fortitude, was intimately connected to the influence and strength of the larger White population. Racism and social exclusions were the major external factors influencing the majority of African Caribbean institutional building. In recreating community, African Caribbean people were influenced by this political milieu. Nevertheless, they were also influenced by their own internal desires and dreams of a better standard of living and a better life for their children. They were also subjected by, for example, their own ideas regarding class, culture, gender roles, family ties, work ethic, and diasporic connections that influenced how they (re)negotiate community.

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