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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Moving Beyond Borders: A History of Black Canadian and Caribbean Women in the Diaspora (2011)
Karen Flynn
Writing Justice: Voicing Issues in the Third Media, Multicultural History Society (2011)
Lorne Foster
3 Jamaican Plays: A Postcolonial Anthology (1977-1987) (2011)
Honor Ford-Smith
Not Anyone’s Anything (2011)
Ian Williams
Ian Williams’s Not Anyone’s Anything is a trio of trios: three sets of three stories, with three of those stories …
Vox : Versus (2011)
Kaie Kellough
Directions Home: Approaches to African-Canadian Literature (2011)
George Elliott Clarke
The latest work from pioneering scholar George Elliott Clarke, Directions Home is the most comprehensive analysis of African-Canadian texts and …
Dancing Lessons (2011)
Olive Senior
When her house in the Jamaican countryside is damaged by a hurricane, Gertrude Samphire is sent by her …
“The First Black Prairie Novel: Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance’s Autobiography and the Repression of Prairie Blackness” in Journal of Canadian Studies 45 (2) (2011)
Karena Vernon
This essay situates Chief Buffalo Child’s Long Lance: The Autobiography of a Blackfoot Indian Chief (1928) within the …
“Introduction” in Chronicles: Early Works of Dionne Brand (2011)
Leslie Sanders
The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature (2011)
Michael Bucknor
The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature offers a comprehensive, critically engaging overview of this increasingly significant body …
Beauty and Sadness (2010)
André Alexis
Award-winning novelist and critic Andre Alexis explores worlds with names such as Henry James, Maupassant, and Kawabata, trying, …
“Digital Epidermalization: Race, Identity and Biometrics” in Critical Sociology, 36 (1),131-150 (2010)
Simone Browne
The Journey from Tollgate to Parkway: African Canadians in Hamilton (2010)
Adrienne Shadd
The Journey from Tollgate to Parkway looks at the history of blacks in the Ancaster-Burlington-Hamilton area, their long struggle …
“Children in Colonial Africa” in special issue of the Journal of Family History, 35 (1) (2010)
Audra A. Diptee
From Africa to Jamaica: The Making of an Atlantic Slave Society, 1775-1807 (2010)
Audra A. Diptee
From Africa to Jamaica offers a new look at the Atlantic slave trade in its final years, fleshing out …
Race on Trial: Black Defendants in Ontario’s Criminal Courts, 1858-1958 (Canadian Social History) (2010)
Barrington Walker
While slavery in Canada was abolished in 1834, discrimination remained. Race on Trial contrasts formal legal equality with pervasive patterns …
A Shadow on the Household: One Enslaved Family’s Incredible Struggle for Freedom (2010)
Bryan Prince
The extraordinary story of one couple’s determination to free themselves and their children from slavery and make a …
Ossuaries (2010)
Dionne Brand
Dionne Brand’s hypnotic, urgent long poem – her first book of poetry in four years, is about the …
Ebony Roots, Northern Soil: Perspectives on Blackness in Canada (2010)
Charmaine Nelson
Ebony Roots, Northern Soil is a powerful and timely collection of critical essays exploring the experiences, histories and …
Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art (2010)
Charmaine Nelson
This book offers the first concentrated examination of the representation of the black female subject in Western art …
“Uncovering Conceptual Practices: Bringing into ‘Lived Consciousness’ Feminists’ Activities on the Toronto Police Sexual Assault Audit and the Follow-up Sexual Assault Audit Committee” in Canadian Women Studies, 28 (1) (2010)
Beverly Bain
[Sarah Ahmed], in her discussion of how documents get taken up as signs of good performance and as …
“Narratives of power: historical mythologies in contemporary Québec and Canada” in Race & Class, 52 (1) (2010)
David Austin
This article examines the historical and contemporary variants of these images and the narratives constructed around them, arguing …
Making It: Black Youth, Racism and Career Aspirations in a Big City (2010)
Carl James
Black youth in ‘big cities’.we think we know who they are, what they do, what they think about; …
Black Canadians: History, Experience, Social Conditions (2010)
Joseph Mensah
Black Canadians provides an authoritative reference for teachers, students and the general public who seek to know more about …
Teaching Africa: Towards Transgressive Pedagogy (2010)
George J. Sefa Dei
Emancipation Day: Celebrating Freedom in Canada (2010)
Natasha Henry
When the passage of the Abolition of Slavery Act, effective August 1, 1834, ushered in the end of …
North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955 (2010)
Sarah-Jane (Saje) Mathieu
North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West …
Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects (2010)
Christina Sharpe
Arguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation have continued to shape black and …
Africa, Including Securing Africa: Post-9/11 Discourses on Terrorism. (2010)
Malinda Smith
This meticulously researched, forcibly argued and accessibly written collection explores the many and complex ways in which Africa …
You Know Who You Are (2010)
Ian Williams
Ian Williams writes challenging poetry. His poems address the crisis of young, black masculinity in cities, paint starkly …
Maple Leaf Rag (2010)
Kaie Kellough
Maple Leaf Rag is a dynamic, jazz-infused riff on Canadian culture. With rhythm and edge, Kaie Kellough’s verbal soundscape …
Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic: Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiahs (2010)
Daniel McNeil
This is the first book to place the self-fashioning of mixed-race individuals in the context of a Black …
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.