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"Towards Black and Indigenous Futures on Turtle Island: A Conversation" in Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada, 75-94

The killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012 by a white assailant inspired the Black Lives Matter movement, which quickly spread outside the borders of the United States. The movement’s message found fertile ground in Canada, where Black activists speak of generations of injustice and continue the work of the Black liberators who have come before […]

"Fighting words with wrongs? How Canadian anti-trafficking crusades have failed sex workers, migrants, and Indigenous communities" in Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice

Indigenous populations, sex workers, and migrants have been legally, socially, and economically disenfranchised by the Canadian state in a multitude of ways—often in the name of “anti-trafficking.” In effect, state-led anti-trafficking enforcement measures fail to address the root causes of the harms created by past and present colonization, anti-sex work laws, and racist immigration measures […]

"Accommodate this! A feminist and anti-racist response to the 'Reasonable Accommodation' hearings in Quebec" in Canadian Women's Studies

Sexism was also a major issue built into the commission itself. In examining the content of the consultation, it is easy to spot the sexism in the representation of racialized immigrant women. This is exemplified by the intense scrutiny and focus on "the veil," symptomatic of a sexist representation of Muslim women as "other" and […]

African Canadian Leadership: Continuity, Transition Transformation

Challenging the myth of African Canadian leadership "in crisis," this book opens a broad vista of inquiry into the many and dynamic ways leadership practices occur in Black Canadian communities. Exploring topics including Black women’s contributions to African Canadian communities, the Black Lives Matter movement, Black LGBTQ, HIV/AIDS advocacy, motherhood and grieving, mentoring, and anti-racism, […]

Crash Politics and Antiracism: Interrogations of Liberal Race Discourse

Crash Politics and Antiracism argues that race and racism continue to script the social fabric in Euro-North America. While dominant discourses claim that we have made significant progress away from racial bigotry, there is no shortage of evidence that inequitable ideologies of race prevail. Similarly, mainstream cinematic productions have mass appeal, yet tend to demonstrate […]

The Populist Dimension to African Political Thought: Critical Essays in Reconstruction and Retrieval

Franz Fanon, Amílcar Cabral and Julius Nyerere were three of Africa’s most influential activist-practioners of anti-colonialism and socialism. This book explores the populist elements in their thought and practice, which despite the different circumstances each faced, is crucial in understanding why each aspired to establish populist socialisms. Idahosa discusses some of the most influential, as […]

Development's Displacements: Economies, Ecologies, and Cultures at Risk

As multilateral agencies, social movements, and state authorities worldwide struggle to cope with the effects of large-scale development projects, the problem of displacement remains unresolved. This volume seeks to address displacement as a broad and multilayered phenomenon. A series of illustrative case studies drawn from around the globe provide causal accounts of why and how […]

"Má-ka Juk Yuh: A Genealogy of Black Queer Liveability in Toronto" in Queering Urban Justice: Queer of Colour Formations in Toronto, 62-83

Queering Urban Justice foregrounds visions of urban justice that are critical of racial and colonial capitalism, and asks: What would it mean to map space in ways that address very real histories of displacement and erasure? What would it mean to regard Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (QTBIPOC) as geographic subjects who […]