First-Generation Student Experiences in Higher Education

Education & Teaching

James, Carl E.

Taylor, Leanne E.

Higher & Continuing Education

Routledge

In First-Generation Student Experiences in Higher Education: Counterstories, we meet eight students who attended university through an access program, and hear their stories of deciding to enter university, navigating and negotiating the institution, and bringing their university experiences with them into adult life. Their counterstories--drawn from application statements, weekly group meetings, diary entries, group conversations, interviews, and media reports--challenge the stereotypes commonly applied to marginalized students in higher education. Chapters offer insights into a range of salient themes and highlight the students' strategies, challenges, successes, and trajectories, as well as their nuanced relationships with their networks, communities, families, and significant others. With this volume, James and Taylor present a valuable resource for educators, administrators, scholars, students and community agencies interested in extending understandings of first-generation university students.

The university is often regarded as a bastion of liberal democracy where equity and diversity are vigorously promoted. In reality, the university still excludes many people and is a site of racialization that is subtle, complex, and sophisticated. This book, the first comprehensive, data-based study of racialized and Indigenous faculty members' experiences in Canadian universities, challenges the myth of equity in higher education. Drawing on a rich body of survey data, interviews, and analysis of universities' stated policies, leading scholars scrutinize what universities have done and question the effectiveness of their employment equity programs. They also make important recommendations as to how universities can address racialization and fulfill the promise of equity in the academy.

The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities

Politics & Social Sciences

Smith, Malinda S.

Henry, Frances

Li, Peter

Ramos, Howard

Kobayashi, Audrey

Dua, Enakshi

Social Sciences

UBC Press

Talking about difference: Encounters in culture, language, and identity

Shadd, Adrienne

Anthropology

Between the Lines

For people who are not part of Canada's "dominant culture," everyday life in this country can be a painful and frustrating--as well as often joyous--experience. In Talking About Difference, Canadians from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds--Aboriginal, African, Jewish, East European, and Asian--present their impressions of what it's like to grow up in, immigrate to, or work in Canada. Their personal stories illuminate the complex ways in which culture, race, class, and identity find expression in our daily lives. 
The stories, variously warm and harsh, humorous and thought-provoking, and always engaging, deal with the everyday questions of who is really Canadian; of growing up and living in more than one culture; of stereotyping; and of confronting racism. The range of experiences and of styles--essays, letters, personal narratives, and journalistic articles--offers an entertaining and instructive glimpse of life in a country with a rapidly changing and vibrant population mix.

Talking About Difference : Encounters in Culture, Language, and Identity

Colour Matters: Essays on the Experiences, Education, and Pursuits of Black Youth

Review\n"In this insightful new collection of essays, James has presented a complex, and often disturbing, portrait of the educational experiences of Black students in Canada. Stereotyping, micro-aggressions, lowered expectations, and obstacles of all kinds obstruct the dreams and aspirations of too many. For those who seek to understand and intervene to make education a resource for equity and justice, this volume will be an invaluable resource." -- Pedro A. Noguera, Dean, University of Southern California, Rossier School of Education\n"These essays tell a story of over two decades of continuous Black struggles in Canada and elsewhere for justice. Told largely through encounters with formal educational institutions, Colour Matters plots the intractable nature of anti-Black racism in those institutions. James does not end there, though – he also shows how students, parents, and communities produce change and will continue to do so. These essays are an academic biography of sorts, mapping James’s own intellectual journey as researcher and advocate. This is an achievement." -- Rinaldo Walcott, Director, Women and Gender Studies Institute, and Associate Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto\nBased on research conducted in Black communities, along with over thirty years of teaching experience, Colour Matters presents a collection of essays that engages educators, youth workers, and policymakers to think about the ways in which race shapes the education, aspirations, and achievements of Black Canadians. Informed by the current socio-political Canadian landscape, Colour Matters covers topics relating to the lives of Black youth, with particular, though not exclusive, attention to young Black men in the Greater Toronto Area. 
The essays reflect the issues and concerns of the past thirty years, and question what has changed and what has remained the same. Each essay is accompanied by an insightful response from a scholar engaging with topics such as immigration, schooling, athletics, mentorship, and police surveillance. With the perspectives of scholars from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, Colour Matters provides provocative narratives of Black experiences that alert us to what more might be said, or said differently, about the social, cultural, educational, political, and occupational worlds of Black youth in Canada. This book probes the ongoing need to understand, in nuanced and complex ways, the marginalization and racialization of Black youth in a time of growing demands for a societal response to anti-Black racism.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

University of Toronto Press

Seeing ourselves: Exploring race, ethnicity & culture

Thompson Educational Pub

Seeing Ourselves: Exploring Race, Ethnicity & Culture

Being equipped to confront issues related to racial and ethnic diversity is a crucial skill for Canadians. Completely reorganized and expanded, this new edition of Seeing Ourselves uses a collection of personal comments and essays, written by students from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds, to examine what it means to participate in the cultural and ethnic "mosaic" that comprises Canada today. Carl James creates a dialogue with students and readers that probes the meaning of ethnicity, race and culture, both in terms of the meanings individuals bring to these concepts and how they are understood in Canadian society as a whole. The varied perspectives, detailed analyses and careful reflections will be invaluable to anyone seeking to understand the meaning and implications of ethnic diversity in Canadian society today. To facilitate classroom discussion, this edition also includes background information and new, up-to-date statistics on the Canadian population - immigration trends, ethnic composition, religious affiliation and other characteristics of Canadians.

Seeing Ourselves: Exploring Race, Ethnicity and Culture

Thompson Educational Publishing, Inc.

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