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Academic Well-Being of Racialized Students

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Through the multiple genres of essay, art, poetry, and photography, this book intelligently examines the experiences of racialized students in Canadian academe, emphasizing the crucial kinship rela...
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  • Publication Date: 15 April 2021
  • ISBN: 9781773634371
  • Pages: 250
  • Imprint: Fernwood Publishing
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Canadian universities have an ongoing history of colonialism and racism in this white-settler society. Racialized students (Indigenous, Black and students of colour), who would once have been forbidden from academic spaces and who still feel out of place, must navigate these repressive structures in their educational journeys. Through the genres of essay, art, poetry and photography, this book examines the experiences of and effects on racialized students in the Canadian academy, while exposing academia’s lack of capacity to promote students’ academic well-being. The book emphasizes the crucial connections that racialized students forge, which transform an otherwise hostile environment into a space of intellectual collaboration, community building and transnational kinship relations. Meticulously curated by Dr. Benita Bunjun, this book is a living example of mentorship, reciprocity and resilience.


All royalties from this book will be donated to the Racialized Students Academic Network.

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Price: $25.00
Pages: 250
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Imprint: Fernwood Publishing
Publication Date: 15 April 2021
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781773634371
Format: Paperback
Every Canadian post-secondary instructor and professor teaching or researching with BIPOC students must read and reflect on this critically edited book. The deep significance and outcomes related to the safe spaces created by Dr. Bunjun’s work with racialized students over more than two decades are evident throughout its chapters. The contributions of 15 authors offer searing stories and critiques of current racialized student pain and trauma within colonial academic institutions and multiculturalism steeped in colonialism and liberalism. It also provides many paths for readers to understand better and support student survival strategies linked to their wellbeing and resistance. Once I began reading it, I could not put it down. This work speaks to my soul.
— Dr. Shelly Johnson (Mukwa Musayett), Canada Research Chair in Indigenizing Higher Education
Dr. Benita Bunjun is an Associate Professor at Saint Mary’s University in the Department of Social Justice and Community Studies, where she coordinates the Racialized Students Academic Network. Her research examines organizational and institutional power relations with a focus on colonial encounters within academic spaces. Dr. Bunjun is deeply committed to the academic well-being of Indigenous, Black and students of colour and to her responsibilities and responsiveness regarding the complexity of Indigenous-settler (of colour) relations and South Asian and Black Diaspora relations.

: A Note from Marginalized Students to Most Faculty by Beverlee MacLellan
: Centring the Academic Well-Being of Racialized Students by Benita Bunjun
: Intersections and Contradictions by Timi (Omotimilehin) Idris
: “It’s in the Past, Get over It!” Is It in the Past? by Vanessa Mitchell
: Nobodies to Everybody: Pervasive Appropriation and Marginalized Students by Fallen Matthews
: Where Are the Black Female Faculty? Employment Equity Policy Failures and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness by Isalean Phillip
: Decolonizing Intentions by Tammy Williams (Apukji’i E’pit)
: My Long Search for Safe Spaces for Black Learners by Wayne Desmond
: Spoken Word Saved My Life – Poetry as a Form of Resistance by Zain Meghji
: Taking a Stand: Privileging Indigenous Knowledge by Dorothy Christian (Cucw-la7)
: Envisioning an Intersectional Resilience Mentorship Program for Indigenous and International Students by Tammy Williams (Apukji’i E’pit)
: Brown Folks by Jotika Chaudhary Samant
: Towards Healing: Lessons in Surviving Academia from a Queer, Brown, Femme by Jotika Chaudhary Samant
: Settler-Migrant Relationships: A Brown Woman’s Journey by Nathalie Lozano-Neira
: The Embodied Transformation of a Racialized International Student on Coast Salish and Mi’kmaq Territories by Ahrthyh Arumugam
: A Way of Being: The Making of Transnational Kinship Relations in Institutions of Higher Learning by Benita Bunjun and Yvonne Brown
: Unbecoming: Decolonizing the Settler Gaze by Diane Obed
: Contributors
: Index