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#BlackInSchool
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A firsthand account of systemic anti-Black racism in Canadian schools
The prevalence of anti-Black racism and its many faces, from racial profiling to police brutality, in North America is indisputable. How do we stop racist ideas and violence if the very foundation of our society is built upon white supremacy? How do we end systemic racism if the majority do not experience it or question its existence? Do our schools instill children with the ideals of equality and tolerance, or do they reinforce differences and teach children of colour that they dont belong?
#BlackInSchool is Habiba Cooper Diallos high school journal, in which she documents, processes, and resists the systemic racism, microaggressions, stereotypes, and outright racism she experienced in Canadas education system.
Powerful and eye-opening, Cooper Diallo illustrates how our schools reinforce rather than erode racism: the handcuffing and frisking of students of colour by police at school, one-dimensional, tokenistic curricula of Black people, and the constant barrage of overt racism from students and staff alike. She shows how systemic racism works, how it alienates and seeks to destroys a childs sense of self. She shows how our institutions work to erase the lived experiences of Black youth and tries to erase Black youth themselves.
Cooper Diallos words will resonate with some, but should shock, appall, and animate a great many more into action towards a society that is truly equitable for all.

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Advance Praise for #BlackInSchool

#BlackInSchool offers a critical perspective on anti-black racism in the education system from the people we need to hear from most on this matterBlack students. [This] is a book educators, administrators, and politicians should read and study with careful consideration and humble reflection. Jael Richardson, author of Gutter Child

#BlackInSchool offers a powerful must read accounting of the lived experiences of Blacknesses and anti-Black racism in schools, and by extension, an indictment of society. It is a call for action from the forces of power to address the cancer of racism and anti-racist violence meted on Black bodies and the African humanity. Habiba Cooper Diallo challenges us to think through our politics to build anti-colonial solidarities with oppressed communities in these moments when we can easily be seduced by fake radicalism. We must continue to bear witness to history and the culture of race denialism that afflict our communities. Above all, we need vigilance as we tell our stories to compel action and bring true human liberation. George J. Sefa Dei, Director, Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies, University of Toronto

Habiba Cooper Diallos book and reflective narrative writings are vivid in their description, candid in their authenticity, and courageous in their interrogation of how the school system reinforces institutional practices regarding race, racism, and antiblackness. From the curriculum to teacher-student relations, Habiba Cooper Diallo has a lot to offer to reveal the problem of a school culture that alienates Black students. Educators approaches to teaching Black students will be remarkably enhanced by reading about Habibas personal experiences and narrative accounts of schooling. Dr. Dolana Mogadime , Professor, Faculty of Education, Brock University

2021 Habiba Cooper Diallo

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Cover art: School Lockers Ransacked Front by alswart / Adobe Stock

Cover and book design: Duncan Campbell, University of Regina Press Copy editor: Amber Riaz Proofreader: Rachel Taylor

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: #BlackInSchool / Habiba Cooper Diallo ; foreword by Awad Ibrahim.

Other titles: BlackInSchool | Black in school

Names: Diallo, Habiba Cooper, author.

Classification: LCC LC212.3.C33 R44 2021 | DDC 370.89/96071 dc

University of Regina Press, University of Regina Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, s4s 0a2 tel: (306) 585-4758 fax: (306) 585-4699 web :

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada. / Nous reconnaissons lappui financier du gouvernement du Canada. This publication was made possible with support from Creative Saskatchewans Book Publishing Production Grant Program.

For all the Black high schoolers and students of the world. Rise up.

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Foreword

Narrating the Black Body in High Schools: Put Your Ears to the Ground and Listen!

Dr. Awad Ibrahim

In Jostein Gaarders bestselling novel, Sophies World , the protagonist, Alberto, has a wonderful discussion about the nature of existence with fourteen-year-old Sophie. He reminds us that, as humans, We are condemned to improvise. We are like actors dragged onto the stage without having learned our lines, with no script and no prompter to whisper stage directions to us. We must decide for ourselves how to live. If this is so, then, students as well as educators are left with this existential and epistemic question: In this improvised theater that is called life (or education), which direction does one or should one take and how does one get there? This question could not be more urgent, especially if one is embodying the Black body in what might be described as a postGeorge Floyd moment, a moment in which the whole globe witnessed how deadly it was to embody the Black body and how gratuitous it was to murder it.

Through a bricolage of journal entries that were written while in Grades 11 and 12, #BlackInSchool not only answers this difficult question but does so while fearlessly staring nihilism and hopelessness in the face. Grounded in the real, #BlackInSchool does envision a better future, but one that is not without a cost. As a Black educator and a father, I found myself apologizing to Habiba that she had to endure so much pain at such an early age. Did we as Black adults fail our Black kids by leaving them to encounter such an ugly world? This question reminds us of the beauty as well as the difficulty of #ExistingWhileBlack (to use Habiba s term). To retain our humanity, Black peoples history for a long time now has been a history of struggle from one generation to the next. If Habiba is the next generation, however, then we as Black people have pulled the ship closer to the shore of humanity. Not only are we equipping our young Black people with tools-of-struggle but also with a language that will enable them to write their own stories and spell their own names. With Habiba, we can proudly say, we are creating a strong poet.

Once in a while, someone comes in with strong conviction, clear mind, and convincing articulation to show us the way. Despite that persons age, their articulation, their ideas, and the totality of their script are so freshly new that we cannot resist reading and wrestling with them, and may even take them in as our own. This is (the power of) the strong poet. This is Habiba, a young person who has the gift of language and who dares to pursue happiness in the face of formidable difficulties. Some of these difficulties are out of her control (like the passing of her father at a very early age), but others are intentionally inflicted on her (like the many experiences of racism and epistemic violence Habiba tells in her journal entries).

As American philosopher Richard Rorty explains, the strong poets do not simply write verses. They are so eloquent in their language, so visionary in their conviction that the familiar, the immediate, and the known become unfamiliar and unknown. The strong poets, Rorty adds, are horrified of simply being a copy or a replica; they have the courage and audacity to engage, look for, and think through the blind impresses, the gaps and the blind spots of thoughts, ideas, and practices. The blind impresses are the difficult knowledgesproblems, if you likethat society prefers not to face, be it (micro-)aggression, blatant racism, war, xenophobia, or ethno-supremacy. In the face of formidable pressure, the strong poets will choose to walk through these problems, so to speak, and deal with them at the individual, national, and global level.

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