Since 2015, students, faculty, and staff have openly expressed their displeasure with controversial memorials on campus. In South Africa student defacement of the statue of Cecil Rhodes at University of Cape Town sparked the national “Fallist” (#Rhodes Must Fall, #Fees Must Fall) decolonization movement. In the US, dozens of memorials to Confederate soldiers, colonizers, slaveholders, […]
As part of our #BlackAfterFeberuary series CCIES invites you to: “Fitting (Out-Fitting) In” Abstract How does one go about de-colonizing a mind, starting with one’s own? This is a question the Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o himself wrestled with. Part of his solution was to go back to writing in his own indigenous tongue, where […]
Join us for a robust discussion of what it means to be Black in the Canadian academy. The complexities of Black identity and of teaching, learning, and researching while Black will be explored by the editors of the newly released book, Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy- Awad Ibrahim (University of Ottawa), Tamari Kitossa […]