Academic well-being of racialized students / edited by Benita Bunjun

Includes bibliographical references and index

Note from Marginalized Students to Most Faculty / Beverlee MacLellan -- 1 Centring the Academic Well-Being of Racialized Students / Benita Bunjun -- Intersections and Contradictions / Timi (Omotimilehin) Idris -- 2 "It's in the Past, Get over I!?" Is It in the Past? / Vanessa Mitchell -- 3 Nobodies to Everybody : Pervasive Appropriation and Marginalized Students / Fallen Matthews -- 4 Where Are the Black Female Faculty? Employment Equity Policy Failures and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness / Isalean Phillip -- Decolonizing Intentions / �Tammy Williams (Apukji'i E'pit) -- 5 My Long Search for Safe Spaces for Black Learners / Wayne Desmond -- 6 Spoken Word Saved My Life : Poetry as a Form of Resistance / Zain Meghji -- 7 Taking a Stand : Privileging Indigenous Knowledge / Dorothy Christian -- 8 Envisioning an Intersectional Resilience Mentorship Program for Indigenous and International Students / Tammy Williams (Apukji'i E'pit) -- Brown Folks / Jotika Chaudhary Samant -- 9 Towards Healing : Lessons in Surviving Academia from a Queer, Brown Femme / Jotika Chaudhary Samant -- 10 Settler-Migrant Relationships : A Brown Woman's Journey / Nathalie Lozano-Neira -- 11 The Embodied Transformation of a Racialized International Student on Coast Salish and Mi'kmaq Territories / Ahrthyh Arumugam -- 12 Way of Being : The Making of Transnational Kinship Relations in Institutions of Higher Learning / Benita Bunjun and Yvonne Brown -- Unbecoming : Decolonizing the Settler Gaze / Diane Obed

"North American universities have a sordid history steeped in colonialism and racism. Racialized students, who would have once been forbidden from academic spaces and who still feel out of place, must navigate these oppressive structures in their educational journeys. Through the multiple genres of essay, art, poetry, and photography, this book intelligently examines the experiences of racialized students in academe. Though the contributors discuss the challenges they face, the book emphasizes the crucial connections that racialized students purposefully forge, which transform an otherwise hostile environment into a space of good relations, intellectual collaborations, community-building, and kinship: academic well-being. Lovingly curated by Dr. Benita Bunjun, this book's existence is a living example of mentorship, reciprocity, and resilience."-- Provided by publisher