rosalind hampton - Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University

I am thankful to University of Toronto Press for recognizing the importance of the issues discussed in this book, and especially to the editors at UTP who worked on the manuscript throughout the publishing process. The research presented in this book was supported by funding from the Fonds de recherche du Qubec Socit et culture. The book has been published with the help of a grant from the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

The people I interviewed for this work generously shared experiences and insights that recalled painful, humorous, infuriating, and inspiring memories and events. I am deeply grateful to all of them for their enthusiastic participation and the candid conversations we had. Their narratives have been crucial to the analysis developed here; their voices remain central to this book and the story it tells about Black racialization and resistance in Canadian academia.

This book is also informed by my experiences over several decades as a community worker, educator, and activist in Montreal. I am deeply grateful to all of the many friends and comrades in that city with whom I have organized, theorized, played, created, taken to the streets, claimed spaces, linked arms, held hands, and yelled at the top of our lungs for a better world. I especially want to thank Cora, Sunci, Fernanda, Pattie, Mona, Robin, Ron, Hesser, Michelle, and Tameem for keeping me so full of love and light. This book was brought to fruition during a period of personal and career transitions throughout which I have been especially and enormously grateful to have such caring, brilliant, creative, funky, legit friends. I continue to be guided by the love and politics of my mother Judy, and am thankful to my father Robert Earl Hampton for his constant encouragement. My son Tysons strength and creativity are unending sources of inspiration to me, as are the love and support of my sister Margot, who always keeps it real and gets me to laugh harder than is humanly possible.

My work is deeply indebted to many scholars, artists, and activists who have been doing Black Studies and critiquing social relations in and around Canadian universities for much longer than I have, and my gratitude extends to all of these people for their tireless work and refusal to be deterred. I thank Adelle Blackett, Aziz Choudry, Grace-Edward Galabuzi, Annette Henry, Carl James, Charmaine Nelson, Khalid Medani, and many members of the Black Canadian Studies Association who offered me critical feedback and encouragement as I pursued the research that informs this book. I especially want to acknowledge and thank my comrade-colleague and co-conspirator Michelle Hartman for her relentlessly generous mentorship, encouragement, and engagement with this and all of my academic work over the past several years. I am also indebted to Abby Lippman, who read and offered me invaluable feedback on early parts of this work, and knew before I did that one day it would become a book and I would become a professor. We miss you so, so much, Abby.

Finally, I wish to acknowledge the colleagues and graduate students who have welcomed me to the University of Toronto. My special thanks to Marcus Singleton and Cherie A. Daniel for reading this manuscript as I prepared it for publishing, and to all of the graduate students of Black Studies with whom I am teaching and learning and imagining that another university is possible.