There is always a moment of hesitation as a Black student when you find out that a particular lesson will be focused on Black histories (it almost always narrowly centres on slavery in the United States, along with a striped-down account of important events leading up to and during 1960s civil rights movements) or, that an entire course will focus on these same histories but typically in more depth and scope. For me, these lessons in elementary/secondary school often followed a singular narrative: Teacher begins to speak about slavery (specifically Transatlantic chattel slavery in the U.S.) White students exchanged hushed commentary to one another, unabashedly stare and quickly glance at the one or two black students in the class Teacher looks to Black students to speak about their opinions or offer a "fresh" perspective Black students have nothing to say. Too much has already been said. In university, the narrative seems to shift -only slightly- but stil...