Cartographies of Blackness and Black Indigeneities

Ghanaian-born George J. Sefa Dei is Professor of Social Justice Education and Director of the Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). He has written extensively on anti-racism education, minority youth and schooling, Indigenous knowledge, Blackness and Black Indigeneity. Ezinwanne (Ezi) Odozor is a Nigerian-born writer and scholar based in Toronto. Her work, whether fiction or non-fiction, focuses on themes of identity, culture, gender, race, health, and intimacy. Ezinwanne is currently completing a master’s in education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Andrea Vásquez Jiménez is an Afro-Latina born to Colombian parents in Toronto, Canada. She is a community organizer, community educator, previous 2018 Ontario NDP Candidate, and a scholar-warrior. Andrea is Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Latinx, Afro-Latin-America, Abya Yala Education Network (LAEN), a Toronto-based, grassroots organization.

• Mapping Blackness: An IntroductionGeorge J. Sefa Dei, Ezinwanne Odozor and Andrea Vásquez Jiménez (Editors)Conceptualizing Blackness: Theorizing Indigeneity1. Teaching Race and (African) Indigeneity: Personal Reflections of a Black ScholarGeorge J. Sefa Dei2. Black Indigenization as Politics of Transformation: Implications of the Zimbabwe ExperimentMunyaradzi Hwami and Edward Shizha3. Making Peace with Movement: Dislocation and the Black DiasporaEzinwanne Toochukwu OdozorResisting Anti-Blackness and Anti-Black Racisms4. Writing Black Life: Theoretical UnderpinningsMarlon Simmons5. Navigating Being a Tall Black Female in Hostile EnvironmentsCarla Rodney6. In Search of Dark Stars: Addressing Anti-Blackness in Schools through Critical Racial Embodiment in Educational LeadershipMichelle Forde7. Unlearning Our BlacknessJohn Castillo8. The Black Woman Who Has Learned to Fear Herself: An Inquiry of the Myth of the Angry Black WomanKe'Shana Danvers9. Special Education: When and Where Does Blackness Fit in?Shaniqwa Thomas10. Prisoners of a Skin Color: The Criminalization and the Social Construction of Blackness in Risk Assessment of Black YouthPaul Banahene Adjei and Harriet AkanmorBlack Futurity and Educational Praxis11. The Complexities of Race, Racialization, Blackness, and Africanness: Working to Decolonize My Teacher Education ProgramAndrew Allen12. Black Theorizing in Academia: Toward an Anti-Colonial Reading, a Response to Professor George J. Sefa DeiJennifer Mills13. Black Graduation at the University of Toronto: A Case for Placemaking as Liberation PraxisJessica P. Kirk14. A Spiritual Call for Afrocentric Learning Spaces and A Reflection on the Current State of Afrocentric Education in TorontoKimbra Yohannes Iket15. The Intersection of Afrofuturism and African Indigenous Knowledge Systems: The Implications for Black StudiesGloria Emeagwali