In 1969, in one of the most significant black student protests in North American history, Caribbean students called out discriminatory pedagogical practices at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University), before occupying the computer centre for two weeks. Upon the breakdown of negotiations, the police launched a violent crackdown as a fire mysteriously broke out inside the centre and racist chants were hurled by spectators on the street. It was a heavily mediatized flashpoint in the Canadian civil rights movement and the international Black Power struggle that would send shockwaves as far as the Carribean. Half a century later, we continue to grapple with the legacies of this watershed moment in light of current resistance movements such as Black Lives Matter, calls for reparations, or Rhodes Must Fall. How is the Sir George Williams "affair" remembered, forgotten, or contested? How is blackness included or occluded in decolonizing dialogues? The Fire That Time addresses those questions while it commemorates and reflects upon the transnational resonances of Black protest and radical student movements. Through a number of thoughtful essays, scholars examine the unfinished business of decolonization and its relationship to questions of pedagogy, institutional life and culture, and ongoing discussions about race and racism.

Machine generated contents note:Introduction: The Fire that Time / Ronald Cummings -- Fifty Years Ago: Reflections on the Sir George Williams University Protests / Nancy Warner -- A Trial to Remember: An interview with Judge Juanita Westmoreland-Traore / Christiana Abraham -- The Sir George Williams Affair: A Watershed in the Black Press / Dorothy W. Williams -- Montreal and the Caribbean Cold War: Reading Haitian and Cuban Connections / Amanda Perry -- On Fire: The Crisis at Sir George Williams University (Montreal) and the Worldwide Revolution of 1968 / Michael O. West -- Musings on Walter Rodney, the Black Power Movement and Race and Class in Guyana / Nigel Westmaas -- Rumblings of a Revolution: Trinidad, 1970 and the Sir George Affair / Raffique Shah -- "The secret name": Diasporic Disremembering / Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- Black Power in Twentieth Century St. Vincent and the Grenadines / Kirland Ayanna Bobb -- Transnational Marronage: The Abeng Archives / Ronald Cummings -- Black Power in Montreal and Kingston / Rupert Lewis -- Black Radical Thought and Caribbean Feminism: Reconceptualizing Black Transnational Protest / Oceane Jasor -- On Reparations: Canada and the case of the Sir George Williams University Computer Affair / Afua Cooper.