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This chapter examines what it means to be a Black student in Canadian higher education by asking how race is reified in academic institutions. By recognizing the historical and social effects of being negatively racialized as Black, questions of who is allowed to receive praise and under what circumstances are grappled with. Furthermore, considering how policies of inclusion inform contemporary education wherein diversity is identified as a desirable result, leads Berry Crossfield to believe that there are performative implications of being Black in higher education.
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Crossfield, B.B. (2017). All That’s Black is Black. In: Abdulle, A., Obeyesekere, A.N. (eds) New Framings on Anti-Racism and Resistance. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-950-8_12
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