Carl E James
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 196154 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Carl E James |
| NOMBRES | Carl E |
| APELLIDO | James |
| FIRMA | JAMES C E |
| AFILIACIONES | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9585-7063 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 221 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
“We were admitted, but is university prepared for us?” Expectations, Challenges and Hopes
Black Emancipation and the Burden of Canada’s HIV Epidemic among Black Communities
Routes to STEM
Everyday racism experiences, healthcare access, and self-rated health
Negotiating University, Fulfilling the Dream
The experiences of Black students in Canadian higher education shed light on the societal and institutional challenges that influence their social and economic aspirations. In today’s societal and economic context, obtaining a postsecondary education degree is not just preferred but essential for securing the employment opportunities that most young people desire. For Black communities in particular, a university degree is often seen as the prima…
Race, community, and doing sociology
What further evidence is needed to effectively address the unsatisfactory schooling experiences and educational trajectory of Black youth to help shape their path toward more successful social outcomes? I return to this persistent question in my research to reflect on how I have used sociological research in prior observations, and to build on earlier studies. I show how following research participants over a period of time, and with attention to…
Community-school-university partnerships
What Did the Multicultural Policies of the Last Century Promise that Need to Be Re-Imagined in Today’s Dedi Post-Secondary World
This article is an expanded version of the 2023 Plenary Lecture at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) Conference held at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. This invited essay explores the extent to which the promise of DEDI’s (decolonization, equity, diversity, and inclusion) polices and initiatives might bring about the imagined institutional changes in today’s context. Contending that we have been here befor…
“The Biggest Mistake You Ever Made Was Thinking That Nobody Cared about Me”
In this review of the 2022 performance of Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers, Andrea A. Davis and Carl E. James, from their respective disciplines in Black literary and cultural studies, education, and sociology, engage in a conversation about Makambe K. Simamba’s play. In their conversation, they unpack questions about Black spirituality, the social construction of gender as a raced category, and the difficulty of articulating anti-Bl…
Who Gets to Be “Canadian”? How Race Has Operated in Keeping Canada White
“ Where are you from?” is often a question that is asked of some Canadians – typically, Canadians for whom skin colour, race, accent, language (other than English and French), name (last, first and nick-name), religion, place of residence, “appearance,” and the organizations or clubs to which they belong, play a role in why they are being asked the question in the first place. But why are “ assumed non-accented ‘non-visible’ Canadians not asked t…
Black life, complexities, nuances, and insights
“Although slavery was abolished nearly 200 years ago, its effects continue to live on today. The legacy of systemic anti-Black racism is still embedded throughout our society, including in our institutions.” This was Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's communiqué to Canadians on Emancipation Day, August 1, 2022. As such, one would expect that hearing such assertion from the Prime Minister, then under his leadership, we would have seen the unsatisfact…
First-Generation Student Experiences in Higher Education
Beyond Pain and Outrage
Who Gets to “Commit Sociology” and to Serve Whose Interest
When dreams take flight
State schooling in North America has drastically under-served Black communities, and much educational research has explored visions of schooling that might provide a more relevant and socially just educational experience for Black students. Toronto’s Africentric Alternative School is the product of just such a vision. This article explores the aspirations, experiences, and practices of the first cohort of teachers at the Africentric Alternative S…
Adapting, Disrupting, and Resisting
Studies of Black students’ schooling experiences and educational outcomes have consistently shown that compared to their peers, they – especially males – tend to underperform academically, be more athletically engaged, and be streamed into non-academic educational programs. These studies tend to focus on high school students, but what of middle school students: is the situation any different? Using a combination of critical race theory and positi…
Sexuality and Sexual Agency Among Heterosexual Black Men in Toronto
This article critically examines common understandings of sexuality and sexual agency among heterosexual Black men in Toronto. The findings are based on focus groups and in-depth interviews conducted for the qualitative arm of the broader weSpeak project, a mixed-methods study designed to engage and support heterosexual Black men in Ontario, Canada, in living more holistically healthy lives. Focus groups and in-depth interviews with 69 self-ident…
The Equity Myth
The university is often regarded as a bastion of liberal democracy where equity and diversity are promoted and racism doesn’t exist. In reality, the university still excludes many people and is a site of racialization that is subtle, complex, and sophisticated. While some studies do point to the persistence of systemic barriers to equity in higher education, in-depth analyses of racism, racialization, and Indigeneity in the academy are more notab…
Race, racialization and Indigeneity in Canadian universities
This article is based on data from a four-year national study of racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian universities. Its main conclusion is that whether one examines representation in terms of numbers of racialized and Indigenous faculty members and their positioning within the system, their earned income as compared to white faculty, their daily life experiences within the university as workplace, or interactions with colleagues and students…
Teachers’ Conceptions of Student Engagement in Learning
Although student engagement plays a central role in the education process, defining it is challenging. This study examines teachers’ conceptions of the social and cultural dimensions of student engagement in learning at three low-achieving schools located in a low socioeconomic status (SES) urban area. Sixteen teachers and administrators from the three schools participated in two focus group discussions about their definitions of student engageme…
Community Policing—A Shared Responsibility
Racial discrimination in policing and its effect on police/minority youth relations were explored in a federally funded Canadian race relations initiative, using semistructured dialogue and voice-centered relational data analysis. Participants were frontline police officers and male youth of color. For enhancing communication between the groups, findings emphasized ongoing, face-to-face interaction. Substantial related concerns were the need for …
Schooling transnational speakers of the societal language
We’re here because we’re Black”
This article discusses the educational experiences of a group of French-speaking Black African-born students who entered Canada as refugees. They were attending a French school and were placed in a separate programme that was designed to meet their particular needs given their limited language skills and level of education. Drawing on critical race theory (CRT), the article analyzes how these students’ identities operated in linking their academi…
Race on Trial
Reviewed by: Race on Trial: Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts, 1858-1958 by Barrington Walker Carl E. James, Director Barrington Walker . Race on Trial: Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts, 1858-1958. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. 276 pp. Six Images. $57.00 hc; $29.95 sc; $29.95 EBUB format. In the wake of the recent shooting incidents in Toronto (about five involving Black youth in June and July, 2012), Toront…
A political education
A series of recent teachers strikes – in Arizona, West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Los Angeles – resulted in increases to educational and social supports for students such as smaller classes, and
"Students "at Risk
This article examines how stereotypes operate in the social construction of African Canadian males as "at risk" students. Cultural analysis and critical race theory are used to explain how the stereotypes of the youth as immigrant, fatherless, troublemaker, athlete, and underachiever contribute to their racialization and marginalization that in turn structure their learning processes, social opportunities, life chances, and educational outcomes. …
Multiculturalism, Colonialism, and Racialization
Race, racialization and Indigeneity in Canadian universities
This article is based on data from a four-year national study of racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian universities. Its main conclusion is that whether one examines representation in terms of numbers of racialized and Indigenous faculty members and their positioning within the system, their earned income as compared to white faculty, their daily life experiences within the university as workplace, or interactions with colleagues and students…
Talking about Identity
Seeing Ourselves
We’re here because we’re Black”
This article discusses the educational experiences of a group of French-speaking Black African-born students who entered Canada as refugees. They were attending a French school and were placed in a separate programme that was designed to meet their particular needs given their limited language skills and level of education. Drawing on critical race theory (CRT), the article analyzes how these students’ identities operated in linking their academi…
Achieving desire
Based on a life history account of Craig Francis, a young black male teacher living and working in Toronto, Canada, this paper examines his route to teaching, his perceptions and understandings of what it means to be a teacher, and the role of race in his aspirations and experiences. Significant to this examination is the ways in which Craig makes sense of his experiences growing up in Canada as a black immigrant male, the circumstances and struc…
When dreams take flight
State schooling in North America has drastically under-served Black communities, and much educational research has explored visions of schooling that might provide a more relevant and socially just educational experience for Black students. Toronto’s Africentric Alternative School is the product of just such a vision. This article explores the aspirations, experiences, and practices of the first cohort of teachers at the Africentric Alternative S…
Beyond Pain and Outrage
Adapting, Disrupting, and Resisting
Studies of Black students’ schooling experiences and educational outcomes have consistently shown that compared to their peers, they – especially males – tend to underperform academically, be more athletically engaged, and be streamed into non-academic educational programs. These studies tend to focus on high school students, but what of middle school students: is the situation any different? Using a combination of critical race theory and positi…
Sexuality and Sexual Agency Among Heterosexual Black Men in Toronto
This article critically examines common understandings of sexuality and sexual agency among heterosexual Black men in Toronto. The findings are based on focus groups and in-depth interviews conducted for the qualitative arm of the broader weSpeak project, a mixed-methods study designed to engage and support heterosexual Black men in Ontario, Canada, in living more holistically healthy lives. Focus groups and in-depth interviews with 69 self-ident…
Strategies of Engagement
The demands of the academic profession and the ways that universities are increasingly shaped by the neoliberal ideologies of competitiveness, individualism, and conformity, influence how racialized faculty perceive their experiences within universities and position themselves to effectively navigate and/or resist the assimilating terrain. The findings from an analysis of approximately eighty-nine interviews with racialized faculty members in uni…
Looking Through the Cinematic Mirror
In a world in which social media, visual images, and instant messaging are the everyday realities of today's young people, films and videos play a crucial role in developing a critical understandin
Schooling, Basketball and US Scholarship Aspirations of Canadian Student Athletes
This article examines the commonly expressed ambition of Black/African Canadian youth, particularly male student athletes, to win athletic scholarships to Ameri can universities. In addition, it seeks to establish why, in the face of low odds and intense competition with their US counterparts, African Canadian student athletes think that it is possible for them to win scholarships and realise these aspirations. To explore this and other questions…
Urban education
This paper discusses a teacher education course—‘Urban Education’—which engaged teacher‐candidates in critical reflections on their roles as teachers, their perceptions of the students they teach, and their preconceived ideas of the community in which the students reside. The paper discusses the content and activities of the course, then focuses on the reflections of four teacher‐candidates in relation to the course and their experiences teaching…
Race, community, and doing sociology
What further evidence is needed to effectively address the unsatisfactory schooling experiences and educational trajectory of Black youth to help shape their path toward more successful social outcomes? I return to this persistent question in my research to reflect on how I have used sociological research in prior observations, and to build on earlier studies. I show how following research participants over a period of time, and with attention to…
A political education
A series of recent teachers strikes – in Arizona, West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Los Angeles – resulted in increases to educational and social supports for students such as smaller classes, and
Black life, complexities, nuances, and insights
“Although slavery was abolished nearly 200 years ago, its effects continue to live on today. The legacy of systemic anti-Black racism is still embedded throughout our society, including in our institutions.” This was Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's communiqué to Canadians on Emancipation Day, August 1, 2022. As such, one would expect that hearing such assertion from the Prime Minister, then under his leadership, we would have seen the unsatisfact…
Who Gets to “Commit Sociology” and to Serve Whose Interest
Schooling transnational speakers of the societal language
Opportunity and Uncertainty
Opportunity and Uncertainty
Returning the Dues”
This study uses interviews to explore students’ perspectives of a university path program, one initiative of a university-school partnership. Responses show that the abstraction of the program lives in concrete and personal dimensions for students as they move from high school to university in the same neighborhood. Advanced placement work at the university and the secondment of faculty from the school board blur distinctions between school and u…
Perspectives on Racism and the Human Services Sector
Societies, like families, have things they don't talk about. In Canada, existence of and intolerance is one such thing. The identities shared by most Canadians have been based on an image of tolerance, although franco-Quebeckers focus their self-image on comparisons to les anglais, while anglo-Canadians compare themselves to US that they suppose is less tolerant and more racist. Canada's nice guy reputation abroad has been shattered in recent yea…
Seeing Ourselves
Opportunity and Uncertainty
Returning the Dues”
This study uses interviews to explore students’ perspectives of a university path program, one initiative of a university-school partnership. Responses show that the abstraction of the program lives in concrete and personal dimensions for students as they move from high school to university in the same neighborhood. Advanced placement work at the university and the secondment of faculty from the school board blur distinctions between school and u…
Achieving desire
Based on a life history account of Craig Francis, a young black male teacher living and working in Toronto, Canada, this paper examines his route to teaching, his perceptions and understandings of what it means to be a teacher, and the role of race in his aspirations and experiences. Significant to this examination is the ways in which Craig makes sense of his experiences growing up in Canada as a black immigrant male, the circumstances and struc…
Schooling, Basketball and US Scholarship Aspirations of Canadian Student Athletes
This article examines the commonly expressed ambition of Black/African Canadian youth, particularly male student athletes, to win athletic scholarships to Ameri can universities. In addition, it seeks to establish why, in the face of low odds and intense competition with their US counterparts, African Canadian student athletes think that it is possible for them to win scholarships and realise these aspirations. To explore this and other questions…
Talking about Identity
Opportunity and Uncertainty
Urban education
This paper discusses a teacher education course—‘Urban Education’—which engaged teacher‐candidates in critical reflections on their roles as teachers, their perceptions of the students they teach, and their preconceived ideas of the community in which the students reside. The paper discusses the content and activities of the course, then focuses on the reflections of four teacher‐candidates in relation to the course and their experiences teaching…
Race and Ethnicity
Race and racialization
Preface Race and Progress The Concept of Race The Classification of Races in Europe and North America: 1700-1850 Towards Scientific Racism Antecedents of the Racial Worldview Latent and Manifest Orientalism The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power Does Race' Matter? Transatlantic Perspectives on Racism after 'Race Relations' When Place Becomes Race Is there a 'Neo-Racism'? The Relationship between Racism and anti-Semitism Global Apartheid? Race…
Looking Through the Cinematic Mirror
In a world in which social media, visual images, and instant messaging are the everyday realities of today's young people, films and videos play a crucial role in developing a critical understandin
Multiculturalism, Colonialism, and Racialization
"Students "at Risk
This article examines how stereotypes operate in the social construction of African Canadian males as "at risk" students. Cultural analysis and critical race theory are used to explain how the stereotypes of the youth as immigrant, fatherless, troublemaker, athlete, and underachiever contribute to their racialization and marginalization that in turn structure their learning processes, social opportunities, life chances, and educational outcomes. …
We Expect Much of You
In this paper, we examine a police summer program for youth from marginalized communities designed to both provide valuable experiences and opportunities as well as improve the problematic relationship between marginalized youth and police. Using the concepts of racialization, governance, and interest-convergence, we consider how such institutionally sponsored programs socialize youth into a value system that fosters self-governance and restraint…
Strategies of Engagement
The demands of the academic profession and the ways that universities are increasingly shaped by the neoliberal ideologies of competitiveness, individualism, and conformity, influence how racialized faculty perceive their experiences within universities and position themselves to effectively navigate and/or resist the assimilating terrain. The findings from an analysis of approximately eighty-nine interviews with racialized faculty members in uni…
Race on Trial
Reviewed by: Race on Trial: Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts, 1858-1958 by Barrington Walker Carl E. James, Director Barrington Walker . Race on Trial: Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts, 1858-1958. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. 276 pp. Six Images. $57.00 hc; $29.95 sc; $29.95 EBUB format. In the wake of the recent shooting incidents in Toronto (about five involving Black youth in June and July, 2012), Toront…
Community Policing—A Shared Responsibility
Racial discrimination in policing and its effect on police/minority youth relations were explored in a federally funded Canadian race relations initiative, using semistructured dialogue and voice-centered relational data analysis. Participants were frontline police officers and male youth of color. For enhancing communication between the groups, findings emphasized ongoing, face-to-face interaction. Substantial related concerns were the need for …
Schooling transnational speakers of the societal language
We’re here because we’re Black”
This article discusses the educational experiences of a group of French-speaking Black African-born students who entered Canada as refugees. They were attending a French school and were placed in a separate programme that was designed to meet their particular needs given their limited language skills and level of education. Drawing on critical race theory (CRT), the article analyzes how these students’ identities operated in linking their academi…
Teachers’ Conceptions of Student Engagement in Learning
Although student engagement plays a central role in the education process, defining it is challenging. This study examines teachers’ conceptions of the social and cultural dimensions of student engagement in learning at three low-achieving schools located in a low socioeconomic status (SES) urban area. Sixteen teachers and administrators from the three schools participated in two focus group discussions about their definitions of student engageme…
Race, racialization and Indigeneity in Canadian universities
This article is based on data from a four-year national study of racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian universities. Its main conclusion is that whether one examines representation in terms of numbers of racialized and Indigenous faculty members and their positioning within the system, their earned income as compared to white faculty, their daily life experiences within the university as workplace, or interactions with colleagues and students…
The Equity Myth
The university is often regarded as a bastion of liberal democracy where equity and diversity are promoted and racism doesn’t exist. In reality, the university still excludes many people and is a site of racialization that is subtle, complex, and sophisticated. While some studies do point to the persistence of systemic barriers to equity in higher education, in-depth analyses of racism, racialization, and Indigeneity in the academy are more notab…
When dreams take flight
State schooling in North America has drastically under-served Black communities, and much educational research has explored visions of schooling that might provide a more relevant and socially just educational experience for Black students. Toronto’s Africentric Alternative School is the product of just such a vision. This article explores the aspirations, experiences, and practices of the first cohort of teachers at the Africentric Alternative S…
Adapting, Disrupting, and Resisting
Studies of Black students’ schooling experiences and educational outcomes have consistently shown that compared to their peers, they – especially males – tend to underperform academically, be more athletically engaged, and be streamed into non-academic educational programs. These studies tend to focus on high school students, but what of middle school students: is the situation any different? Using a combination of critical race theory and positi…
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