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Challenging the myth of African Canadian leadership "in crisis," this book opens a broad vista of inquiry into the many and dynamic ways leadership practices occur in Black Canadian communities. Exploring topics including Black women's contributions to African Canadian communities, the Black Lives Matter movement, Black LGBTQ, HIV/AIDS advocacy, motherhood and grieving, mentoring, and anti-racism, contributors appraise the complex history and contemporary reality of blackness and leadership in Canada. With Canada as a complex site of Black diasporas, contributors offer an account of multiple forms of leadership and suggest that through surveillance and disruption, practices of self-determined Black leadership are incompatible with, and threatening to, White "structures" of power in Canada. As a whole, African Canadian Leadership offers perspectives that are complex, non-aligned, and in critical conversation about class, gender, sexuality, and the politics of African Canadian communities.

Leadership --- Canada --- Canada --- Canada. --- Race relations. --- Relations raciales. --- African. --- Black LGBTQ. --- Black Lives Matter. --- Black diasporas. --- Black leadership. --- Black. --- Canadian. --- HIV/AIDS advocacy. --- anti-racism. --- grieving. --- leadership. --- mentoring. --- motherhood. --- practices.

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Scholars and practitioners who witness violence and loss in human, animal, and ecological contexts are expected to have no emotional connection to the subjects they study. Yet is this possible? Following feminist traditions, Vulnerable Witness centers the researcher and challenges readers to reflect on how grieving is part of the research process and, by extension, is a political act. Through thirteen reflective essays the book theorizes the role of grief in the doing of research-from methodological choices, fieldwork and analysis, engagement with individuals, and places of study to the manner in which scholars write and talk about their subjects. Combining personal stories from early career scholars, advocates, and senior faculty, the book shares a breadth of emotional engagement at various career stages and explores the transformative possibilities that emerge from being enmeshed with one's own research.

Grief --- Research --- Political aspects. --- Psychological aspects. --- advocates. --- analysis. --- animal. --- challenges. --- doing of research. --- early career scholars. --- ecological. --- emotional connection. --- emotional engagement. --- engagement. --- feminist traditions. --- fieldwork. --- grieving. --- human. --- loss. --- methodological choices. --- personal stories. --- political act. --- practitioners. --- reflective essays. --- researchers. --- role of grief. --- scholars. --- senior faculty. --- subjects. --- transformative possibilities. --- various career stages. --- violence.

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How black Americans use digital networks to organize and cultivate solidarityUnrest gripped Ferguson, Missouri, after Mike Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson in August 2014. Many black Americans turned to their digital and social media networks to circulate information, cultivate solidarity, and organize during that tumultuous moment. While Ferguson and the subsequent protests made black digital networks visible to mainstream media, these networks did not coalesce overnight. They were built and maintained over years through common, everyday use.Beyond Hashtags explores these everyday practices and their relationship to larger social issues through an in-depth analysis of a trans-platform network of black American digital and social media users and content creators. In the crucial years leading up to the emergence of the Movement for Black Lives, black Americans used digital networks not only to cope with day-to-day experiences of racism, but also as an incubator for the debates that have since exploded onto the national stage. Beyond Hashtags tells the story of an influential subsection of these networks, an assemblage of podcasting, independent media, Instagram, Vine, Facebook, and the network of Twitter users that has come to be known as "Black Twitter." Florini looks at how black Americans use these technologies often simultaneously to create a space to reassert their racial identities, forge community, organize politically, and create alternative media representations and news sources. Beyond Hashtags demonstrates how much insight marginalized users have into technology.

African American mass media. --- African Americans and mass media. --- Race in mass media. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global). --- 2016 US presidential election. --- Black Lives Matter. --- Black Twitter. --- Black cultural production. --- Black enclaves. --- Black innovation. --- Black social spaces. --- Ferguson. --- Martin Luther King Jr. --- Mike Brown. --- This Week in Blackness. --- Trayvon Martin. --- Zimmerman. --- affordances. --- alternative media production. --- anti-Black racism. --- citizen journalism. --- collective grieving. --- colorblindness. --- counterpublics. --- digital technology. --- historical narrative. --- independent media production. --- mainstream legacy media. --- media narratives. --- monetization. --- neoliberal. --- neoliberalism. --- oscillating networked publics. --- podcasts. --- police brutality. --- political engagement. --- political establishment. --- racial discourse. --- racial landscape. --- racial oppression. --- social justice. --- solidarity. --- transplatform. --- white supremacy.