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Towards an African Canadian art history : art, memory, and resistance
The first book to consolidate the field of African Canadian Art History. Charmaine A. Nelson and a group of established and up-and-coming artists, scholars, and cultural critics argue for an African Canadian Art History which can simultaneously examine the artistic contributions of black Canadian artists within their unique historical contexts, critique the colonial representation of black subjects by white artists, and contest the customary racial homogeneity of Canadian Art History.
Charmaine Nelson is a Canada Research Chair in Transatlantic Black Diasporic Art and Community Engagement and Professor of History at NSCAD University.
Other publications from this author include:
- Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica (2016)
- Legacies Denied: Unearthing the Visual Culture of Canadian Slavery (2013)
- Ebony Roots, Northern Soil: Perspectives on Blackness in Canada (2010)
- Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art (2010)
- The Color of Stone: Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America (2007)
- Racism Eh? : A Critical Inter-Disciplinary Anthology of Race in the Canadian Context (2004)