Black Immigrants in North America

Awad Ibrahim is an award-winning author and a Professor on the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa, Canada. He is a Curriculum Theorist with a special interest in diasporic and continental African identities; cultural studies; applied linguistics; Hip-Hop; youth and Black popular culture; philosophy and sociology of education; social justice; and ethnography. He was born in Sudan and arrived in Canada, through the U.S., as a refugee. He has published more than 100 books and journal articles.

• Immigrating While Black: An Introduction1. One is not born Black: Becoming and the phenomenon(ology) of race2. The (un)naturalization of Blackness: A rhizomatic analysis of Blackness3. Body without organs: Notes on Deleuze & Guattari, critical race theory and the socius of anti-racism4. The question of the question is the foreigner: Towards an economy of hospitality5. Becoming Black: Rap and Hip-Hop, race, gender, identity, and the politics of ESL learning6. Intersecting language, immigration, and the politics of becoming Black: Journaling a Black immigrant displacement7. The new flâneur: Subaltern cultural studies, African youth in Canada, and the semiology of in-betweenness8. Don't call me Black! Rhizomatic analysis of Blackness, immigration, and the politics of race without guarantees9. When neoliberalism meets race, post-colonial displacement and immigration, it creates Americanah: A teacher education complicated conversation10. Operating under erasure: Hip-Hop and the pedagogy of affect11. Research as an act of love: Ethics, émigrés, and the praxis of becoming human12. Wide-awakeness: Toward a critical pedagogy of imagination, humanism and becominga