This database provides an extensive archive of scholarly publications and fictional texts in Black and African Studies. Its goal is to make accessible the work of scholars, writers and artists living in Canada or engaging with Black Canada, including scholars across the humanities and social sciences in LA&PS. Resources listed in the database cover a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields, such as history, sociology, social work, literary criticism, feminist and queer theories, Black Canadian Studies and African Diaspora Studies. It also lists the works of Black Canadian poets, novelists and playwrights.
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“‘. . . to ensure that only suitable persons are sent’: Screening Jamaican Women for the West Indian Domestic Scheme in Canada” in Jamaicans in the Canadian Experience: A Multiculturalizing Presence, 36-53 (2012)
Michele A. Johnson
The Dialectics of African Education and Western Discourses: Appropriation, Ambivalence and Alternatives (2012)
Handel K. Wright
The six academics and contributors to the issue are AIi Abdi (originally from Somalia and currently associate professor …
Talking About Freedom: Celebrating Emancipation Day in Canada (2012)
Natasha Henry
Talking About Freedom explores the history and significance of this freedom festival in Canada. Discover the main features of …
Transnationalism and cultural studies (2012)
Handel K. Wright
This book asks what ‘transnationalism’ might mean for Cultural Studies as an intellectual project shaped in vastly differing …
“Access to postsecondary education: can schools compensate for socioeconomic disadvantage?” in Higher Education (2012)
Joseph Mensah
While access to postsecondary education in Canada has increased over the past decade, a number of recent studies …
James, Carl E. and Andrea Davis, “Instructive Episodes: The Shifting Positions of the Jamaican Diaspora in Canada” in Journal of Education and Development in the Caribbean, 14 (1), 17-41 (2012)
Andrea Davis
This paper is interested in the ways in which the everyday experiences of Jamaican Canadians function as accumulated …
Jamaica in the Canadian Experience: A Multiculturalizing Presence (2012)
Andrea Davis, Carl E. James
In 2012, Jamaica celebrates its fiftieth anniversary of independence from Britain. In the short period of its life …
“Response to Jared Sexton’s “Ante-Anti-Blackness: Afterthoughts” for Lateral (inaugural issue of online, peer reviewed E-journal of the Cultural Studies Association) (2012)
Christina Sharpe
“Gender, power, and religious transnationalism among the African diaspora in Canada” in African Geographical Review (2012)
Joseph Mensah
Stimulated by a wide range of factors, the sons and daughters of Africa have relocated to Canada in …
Methodologies in Caribbean Research on Gender and Sexuality (2012)
Kamala Kempadoo
A first of its kind in the English-speaking Caribbean, this multi-disciplinary collection brings together contributions from a variety …
Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights (2012)
Kamala Kempadoo
Since the 2005 publication of the highly acclaimed first edition of Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered, human trafficking has …
Personals (2012)
Ian Williams
These are not love poems. These are almost-love poems. Jittery, plaintive, and fresh, these are poems voiced through …
Reproduction (2012)
Ian Williams
A hilarious, surprising and poignant love story about the way families are invented, told with the savvy of …
Report from Planet Midnight (2012)
Nalo Hopkinson
Never one to hold her tongue, Hopkinson takes on sexism and racism in publishing in Report from Planet …
The Chaos (2012)
Nalo Hopkinson
Navigate between myth and chaos in this “journey filled with peril, self-discovery, and terrifying moments” (Publishers Weekly, starred …
“Re-Framing the colonial Caribbean: Joscelyn Gardner’s White Skin, Black Kin: A Creole Conversation Piece” in Postcolonial Studies, 15 (2012)
Hyacinth Simpson
The article discusses the role that the visual arts and museums-through the way their framing and selection choices …
Birthday Suit (2012)
Olive Senior
Johnny loves nothing better than splashing in the ocean waves—naked. But Mom says now that he’s four he’s …
“Negotiated challenges in the workplace: Immigrant women’s views and experiences of employment in Canada”: Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work 27 (4), 420-434 (2012)
Uzo Anucha
On the basis of a qualitative study with immigrant women in Windsor, Ontario, this article looks at women’s …
“‘Other/ed’ Kinds of Blackness: An Afrodiasporic Versioning of Black Canada” in Southern Journal of Canadian Studies, 5 (1-2), 46-65 (2012)
Mark V. Campbell
For centuries Canada has been home to several overlapping diasporas partially consisting of African Americans refugees, exiled Maroons, …
Naturally Woman: The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women’s Literature (2011)
Sharon Beckford-Foster
Black Canadian women must constantly incorporate changes to their identities to face the challenges of living in a …
Vital Signs (2011)
Tessa McWatt
Narrated by a terrified male protagonist whose deep yearning for forgiveness might only be granted by a woman …
“Stories from The Little Black School House” in Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation Through the Lens of Cultural Diversity (2011)
Sylvia Hamilton
The Return (2011)
Dany Laferrière
Dany Laferriere’s most celebrated book since How to Make Love to a Negro, The Return is a bestseller in France and …
After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing and Religion (2011)
Wayde Compton
After Canaan, the first nonfiction book by acclaimed Vancouver poet Wayde Compton, repositions the North American discussion of …
Afrika, Solo (2011)
Djanet Sears
The plays in this anthology pit individual against community and cause readers to rethink the associations placed on …
“‘A Laudable Experiment’: Infant Welfare Work and Medical Intermediaries in Early Twentieth-century Barbados” in Public Health in the British empire: Intermediaries, Subordinates, and Public Health Practice, 1850-1960 (2011)
Juanita De Barros
Over the last several decades, historians of public health in Britain’s colonies have been primarily concerned with the …
“Historical Commentaries. British Guiana (Guyana)” in The Marcus Garvey Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Volume XI: The Caribbean Diaspora, 1910-1920 (2011)
Juanita De Barros
Revealing the connections between the major African-American mass movement of the interwar era and the struggle of the …
Half-Blood Blues (2011)
Esi Edugyan
From the smoky bars of pre-war Berlin to the salons of Paris, the narrator of Half-Blood Blues, musician Sid …
“They Do as They Please”: The Jamaican Struggle for Cultural Freedom After Morant Bay (2011)
Michele A. Johnson
This book is a companion to Neither Led nor Driven, published in 2004. It examines the secular aspects of …
“Great Expectations: African Americans and the Great War” in American Quarterly, 63 (2) (2011)
Sarah-Jane (Saje) Mathieu
“The Black Experience in Canada Revisited” in Migrants and Migration in Modern North America: Cross-Border Life Courses, Labor Markets, and Politics in Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States, 399-421 (2011)
Sarah-Jane (Saje) Mathieu
Presenting an unprecedented, integrated view of migration in North America, this interdisciplinary collection of essays illuminates the movements …
Red (2011)
George Elliott Clarke
Red joins George Elliott Clarke’s previous ‘colouring’ books Blue and Black in which he displays an expansive range of poetic forms …
Entries in this database have been gathered by Jellisa Ricketts as part of the summer 2021 Dean’s Award for Research Excellence project, “Teaching Against Anti-Black Racism and Toward Black Inclusion,” supervised by Professor Andrea Davis.