New book: Colonized Classrooms: Racism, Trauma and Resistance in Post-Secondary Education by Dr. Sheila Cote-Meek

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Hot off the press, Dr. Cote-Meek's new book: Colonized Classrooms: Racism, Trauma and Resistance in Post-Secondary Education is particularly relevant to Indigenous social work.

In Colonized Classrooms, Sheila Cote-Meek discusses how Aboriginal students confront narratives of colonial violence in the postsecondary classroom, while they are, at the same time, living and experiencing colonial violence on a daily basis. Basing her analysis on interviews with Aboriginal students, teachers and Elders, Cote-Meek deftly illustrates how colonization and its violence are not a distant experience, but one that is being negotiated every day in universities and colleges across Canada.

Contents

Setting the Context . Conceptualizing the Impact of the Colonial Encounter . Negotiating the Culture/Colonial Divide in the Postsecondary Classroom . Negotiating Race in the Postsecondary Classroom . Trauma in the Classroom . Resisting Ongoing Racism and Colonialism in the Postsecondary Classroom . Closing the Circle: The Possibilities for Transformational Pedagogy . References

About the Author

Sheila Cote-Meek is an Anishnaabe-Kwe from the Teme-Augama Anishnabai. She is Associate Vice President of Academic and Indigenous Programs as well as a professor in the School of Indigenous Relations at Laurentian University.

You can purchase this book online via Amazon or Indigo or Fernwood Publishing for $24.95 CDN.