Multi-faceted and erudite, Black Geographies brings into focus the politics of place that black subjects, communities, and philosophers inhabit. Highlights include essays on the African diaspora and its interaction with citizenship and nationalism, critical readings of the blues and hip-hop, and thorough deconstructions of Nova Scotian and British Columbian black topography. Drawing on historical, contemporary, and theoretical […]
This anthology establishes a new black prairie literary tradition and transforms inherited understandings of what prairie literature looks and sounds like. It collects varied and unique work by writers who were both conscious and unconscious of themselves as black writers or as “prairie” people. Their letters, recipes, oral literature, autobiographies, rap, and poetry- provide vivid […]
This essay situates Chief Buffalo Child’s Long Lance: The Autobiography of a Blackfoot Indian Chief (1928) within the cultural context of its production, the anti-Black racial climate of the Canadian Prairies in the early part of the twentieth century, in order to analyze the textual repression of its author’s Blackness. Although the Autobiography has been […]
There is no wishing away the fact that homelessness has grown into a socio-political problem of alarming proportions in several North American urban centres. The extent of this problem in Canada can be seen in the declaration by mayors of Canada's 10 largest cities that homelessness is a national disaster worthy of the type of […]
This paper discusses processes through which African Canadian youth construct their identities as well as form friendships within and across ethnic boundaries. The paper presents how, through these processes, youth use resources in history that help them construct and negotiate diaspora identities and friendships while simultaneously distancing themselves from the core group of white Canadian […]
On the basis of a qualitative study with immigrant women in Windsor, Ontario, this article looks at women’s responses to the challenges they face in the Canadian workplace, together with the value they place on working outside the home. The women reflected on their job searches, employment conditions, and work experiences as mediated by the […]
Purpose This study examined whether race/ethnicity had differential effects on breast cancer care and survival across age strata and cohorts within stages of disease. Methods The Detroit Cancer Registry provided 25,997 breast cancer cases. African American and non-Hispanic white, older Medicare-eligible and younger non-eligible women were compared. Successive historical cohorts (1975–1980 and 1990–1995) were, respectively, […]
This article discusses the challenges associated with what has become a common approach to the rehousing of “hard to house” groups–-shared housing models. The researcher collected and analyzed data from participants living in 2 shared housing programs for formerly homeless people in Toronto, Canada, who were on the verge of being evicted from their apartments. […]