In the Legacy of Marronage: The Sir George Williams Affair and Acts of Refusal, Protest, and Care.

At its core, this article is concerned with the relationship between Black life and the university. It is focused on those working and studying in and at the interstices of the university--those for which the university itself was made to exclude; those for whom the university cannot begin to know how to include. By attending to the events of the 1969 Sir George Williams Affair, which took place in Montreal, Canada, as well as the events preceding it, I consider how the occupation of the ninth floor computer centre by the university's Black students operated within a legacy of refusal that can be traced back to an earlier history of resistance, specifically, to acts of marronage. Moreover, this article will seek to advance how the siting of spaces for protest, resistance, and solidarity by Black students illustrates how a lineage of marronage is at once a continuance of a project and practice of an ethics of care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]