The Black Atlantic Meets the Black Pacific: Multimodality in Kamau Brathwaite and Wayde Compton

Smyth, Heather

doi:10.1353/cal.2014.0046

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“…We do our global African communities a disservice by not encompassing the vast variations of Black Canada and rethinking our notions of the Black diaspora. Scholars are exploring, for example, "the Black Pacific" (Smythe, 2014;Zeleza, 2008). 4 Vancouver poet, historian, and activist Wayde Compton (2010) noted that in Black western Canada "there are things to be learned from owning and exploring oblique kinds of Blackness" and that it is a place where "radical experiments of identity can be tried" (p.13).…”

Section: Culture As Remixmentioning

confidence: 99%

Culturally Relevant Pedagogies: Possibilities and Challenges for African Canadian Children

Henry

2017

Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education

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Background/Context Ladson-Billings's concept of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy for African American children has been widely reinterpreted in various contexts for racialized students. In this reflective essay, I consider its challenges in Canadian contexts. Focus I use my early ethnographic work to illustrate important aspects of culturally relevant pedagogies, to raise cross-cultural differences, and as a springboard to engage with newer theorizations. Research Design These studies took place in a majority Black K–5 school; in addition, I conducted two studies in Illinois. I argue that the goals of culturally relevant education for Black students within the formal mechanisms of Canadian schooling are impeded by the official policy of multiculturalism that frames the Canadian imaginary and does not include Black people. Conclusions/Recommendations In the quest for pedagogies relevant to students’ lives, I call for fuller conceptualizations of Blackness that complicate notions of culture, transnational relationships, and global migrations. Lastly, I call for teachers to embrace the nexus of issues that students negotiate in their daily lives as part of any potentially transformative pedagogy.

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Section: Culture As Remixmentioning

confidence: 99%