(Re)call and Response: Organizing with Community-University Talks
Abstract
This article documents and analyses Black student-led organizing by Community-University Talks, a collective of academics and local community members who organized together between 2012 and 2017 in Montreal. The co-authors of this article founded Community-University Talks in December 2011, as Black women who had just begun doctoral studies in Educational Studies at McGill University. Now, a decade later, they recall and respond to this experience through narrative inquiry involving collaborative remembering, writing, and dialogue. This study is further guided by a critical engagement with the material culture of the Community-University Talks archive, which includes notes and correspondences, minutes from meetings, reports, event posters, memorabilia,photographs, and video footage.
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2023-06-28
Keywords
Black student organizing, Black studenr success, Canadian universities
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Special Issue: The Perspectives of Traditionally Underrepresented Students
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