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Join Funké Aladejebi for a lecture on the subject of her new book, Schooling the System: A History of Black Women Teachers. The lecture is presented by the University of Manitoba Department of History Colloquium Committee.
Funké Aladejebi is assistant professor of history at the University of Toronto.
In post-World War II Canada, black women’s positions within the teaching profession served as sites of struggle and conflict as the nation worked to address the needs of its diversifying population. From their entry into teachers’ college through their careers in the classroom and administration, black women educators encountered systemic racism and gender barriers at every step. So they worked to change the system. Using oral narratives to tell the story of black access and education in Ontario between the 1940s and the 1980s, Schooling the System provides textured insight into how issues of race, gender, class, geographic origin, and training shaped women’s distinct experiences within the profession.