African Canadian Leadership: Continuity, Transition, and Transformation

by Tamari Kitossa (Editor), Erica S. Lawson (Editor), Philip S.S. Howard (Editor)

Challenging the myth of African Canadian leadership "in crisis," this book opens a broad vista of inquiry into the many and dynamic ways leadership practices occur in Black Canadian communities. Exploring topics including Black women’s contributions to African Canadian communities, the Black Lives Matter movement, Black LGBTQ, HIV/AIDS advocacy, motherhood and grieving, mentoring, and anti-racism, contributors appraise the complex history and contemporary reality of blackness and leadership in Canada. With Canada as a complex site of Black diasporas, contributors offer an account of multiple forms of leadership and suggest that through surveillance and disruption, practices of self-determined Black leadership are incompatible with, and threatening to, White "structures" of power in Canada. As a whole, African Canadian Leadership offers perspectives that are complex, non-aligned, and in critical conversation about class, gender, sexuality, and the politics of African Canadian communities.

416 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 2019

Reviews

[Michaela Y-M · Rating 4 out of 5]

A wonderfully written book with a plentiful amount of insights on African Canadian communities and leadership. I would recommend it for anyone looking to learn about the past, present, and future of said communities.