Racialized social relations in higher education: Black student and faculty experiences of a Canadian university

Universities are dynamic sites of the production of knowledge and power that both reflects and shapes broader social, cultural, economic and political relations. This dissertation examines racialized social relations in Canadian higher education from the site of a university in Montreal. Drawing on anticolonial and critical race theories and using methods of institutional ethnography/ political activist ethnography, I study how Black people describe and analyze their experiences at the university, how the university's institutional texts and discourses shape their activities, and how neoliberalism may be altering these relations. Former and current Black students and faculty members describe experiences of racialization mediated by differences of gender, nationalism, culture and class. Black people's activities at the university over the past five decades have consistently involved navigating the racialized and racializing environment and working for anticolonial, anti-racist change through community and coalition building, various forms of service work within the university, organizing non-formal teaching and learning, and political activism. This dissertation demonstrates the importance of this work in developing critical consciousness, contesting colonial-capitalist ideology and maintaining and furthering the emancipatory potential of higher education.

Author

hampton, rosalind

Title

Racialized social relations in higher education: Black student and faculty experiences of a Canadian university

Subjects

Black Racialization, Higher Education, Student Activism

Document Type

PhD dissertation

Source

McGill University

Language

English

Publication Date

2017

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