This course employs Blackness as an embodied subjectivity (both individual and collective) that is central to Black learners and the Black experience in education. Using creative, critical and decolonial methods of teaching and learning, this course will engage an interdisciplinary study of what it means to learn while being Black (both historically and contemporarily) in contexts of colonialism, slavery and anti-Black racism in Canada. The course will also engage a critical interrogation of the role that education systems (can) play for Black freedom, liberation, and self-determination, both locally, in Canada and globally. Topics include initial and subsequent settlement patterns including suburbanization, identity formation, education, mobility, work, media, multiculturalism, transnationalism, and political participation and representation. The course interrogates the complexities of the social and cultural interactions of Italian Canadians in the context of the changing demography of Canada. Challenges and opportunities will be examined, with respect to issues such as migration, community-building, belonging, and discrimination.
This course employs Blackness as an embodied subjectivity (both individual and collective) that is central to Black learners and the Black experience in education. Using creative, critical and decolonial methods of teaching and learning, this course will engage an interdisciplinary study of what it means to learn while being Black (both historically and contemporarily) in contexts of colonialism, slavery and anti-Black racism in Canada. The course will also engage a critical interrogation of the role that education systems (can) play for Black freedom, liberation, and self-determination, both locally, in Canada and globally. Topics include initial and subsequent settlement patterns including suburbanization, identity formation, education, mobility, work, media, multiculturalism, transnationalism, and political participation and representation. The course interrogates the complexities of the social and cultural interactions of Italian Canadians in the context of the changing demography of Canada. Challenges and opportunities will be examined, with respect to issues such as migration, community-building, belonging, and discrimination.
