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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“Housed but Homeless? Negotiating Everyday Life in a Shared Housing Program for Homeless People” in Families in Society – A Journal of Contemporary Social Services, 91 (1), 67-75 (2010)
Uzo Anucha
This article discusses the challenges associated with what has become a common approach to the rehousing of “hard …
With Amber Dean. “Unfixing Imaginings of the City: Art Gentrification, & Cultures of Surveillance” in Affinities: A Journal of Radical Theory, Culture, & Action, 4 (2) (2010)
Phanuel Antwi
Hamilton, so frequently imagined as “the city that once worked,” is now imagined as “the city in need …
Toronto the Good (2009)
Andrew Moodie
Accusations of racial profiling are levelled against a Toronto police officer after she arrests a black man for …
More (2009)
Austin Clarke
Winner of the 2009 Toronto Book Award From the winner of the 2002 Giller Prize comes Austin Clarke’s …
Step Closer (2009)
Tessa McWatt
In the wake of the 2004 tsunami, Emily, a young Canadian woman living in Spain, embarks on an …
Je suis un écrivain japonais (2009)
Dany Laferrière
The Enigma of the Return (2009)
Dany Laferrière
My Name Is Phillis Wheatley: A Story of Slavery and Freedom (2009)
Afua Cooper
This is the remarkable story of Phillis Wheatley, who is born into an African family of griots, or …
You Don’t Play With Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James (2009)
David Austin
You Don’t Play With Revolution collects seven never-before-published lectures by Marxist cultural critic C.L.R. James, delivered during his stay …
Racism in the Canadian University (2009)
Francis Henry
The mission statements and recruitment campaigns for modern Canadian universities promote diverse and enlightened communities. Racism in the …
The Colour of Democracy, 4th Edition (2009)
Francis Henry
The Colour of Democracy is the only text in Canada to examine institutionalized racism rather than focus on …
“L’Etat, le genre et l’iconographie: l’image de la femme au Congo belge” in Images, mémoires et savoirs. Une histoire en partage avec Bogumil Koss Jewsiewicki, 515-537. (2009)
Gertrude Mianda
C’est en ces termes que Pierre Nora souligne avec acuité la richesse del’oeuvre de cet historien canadien, venu …
“Improving the Standard of Motherhood: Infant Welfare in Post-Slavery British Guiana” in Health and Medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800-1968 (2009)
Juanita De Barros
This collection, which covers the French, Hispanic, Dutch, and British Caribbean, explores the cultural and social domains of …
Ontario’s African-Canadian Heritage: Collected Writings by Fred Landon, 1918-1967 (2009)
Karolyn Smardz-Frost
Ontario’s African-Canadian Heritage is composed of the collected works of Professor Fred Landon, who for more than 60 …
Health and Medicine in the Caribbean: Historical Perspectives (2009)
Juanita De Barros
“The Great Migration Reconsidered” in Magazine of History, 23 (4) (2009)
Sarah-Jane (Saje) Mathieu
Globetrotter & Hitler’s Children (2009)
Amatorisero Ede
I & I (2009)
George Elliott Clarke
In the “Boogie Nights” era of the 1970s, Betty Browning and her lover, boxer Malcolm Miles, travel from …
“Accommodate this! A feminist and anti-racist response to the ‘Reasonable Accommodation’ hearings in Quebec” in Canadian Women’s Studies (2009)
Robyn Maynard
Sexism was also a major issue built into the commission itself. In examining the content of the consultation, …
“Oil extraction and poverty reduction in the Niger Delta: A critical examination of partnership initiatives” in Journal of Business Ethics 90, 91-116. (2009)
Uwafiokun Idemudia
The combination of corporate-community conflicts and oil transnational corporations’ (TNCs) rhetoric about being socially responsible has meant that …
“Engaging the Canadian Diaspora, Youth Social Identities in a Canadian Border City” in McGill Journal of Education, 44 (3) (2009)
Uzo Anucha
Abstract This paper is based on qualitative interviews undertaken with immigrant youth of African descent in Windsor, Ontario; …
“Increased racial group breast cancer care and survival differentials in America: Historical evidence consistent with a health insurance hypothesis, 1975 to 2001” in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 113, 595-600 (2009)
Uzo Anucha
Purpose This study examined whether race/ethnicity had differential effects on breast cancer care and survival across age strata …
“The Challenges and Possibilities of Re-visioning Social Work Education in Africa” in New Directions in African Education: Issues in Curriculum, Pedagogy, Policy and Access (2009)
Uzo Anucha
“Trans-nationalism, social identities and African youth in the Canadian diaspora” in Social Identities, 15 (2), 227-242 (2009)
Uzo Anucha
This paper discusses processes through which African Canadian youth construct their identities as well as form friendships within …
“Introduction” in Fierce Departures: The Poetry of Dionne Brand (2009)
Leslie Sanders
The selections in Fierce Departures, drawn from Dionne Brand’s work since 1997, delineate with searing eloquence how history marks …
Asylum (2008)
André Alexis
Alexis’s long-awaited second novel follows his award-winning Childhood. Set in Ottawa during the Mulroney years, Asylum is André Alexis’s …
“Searching for Portia White” in Rain/Drizzle/Fog: Film and Television in Atlantic Canada (2008)
Sylvia Hamilton
This is an exciting new collection sure to create ripples throughout Canadian film studies … an important new …
The Reverend’s Apprentice (2008)
David Chariandy, David Nandi Odhiambo
A powerful, tragicomic novel about power, culture, and identity politics in contemporary America, as seen through the eyes …
The History of Immigration and Racism in Canada: Essential Readings (2008)
Barrington Walker
This outstanding collection examines the complex and disturbing history of immigration and racism in Canada. Major themes include …
AFRICA AND TRANS-ATLANTIC MEMORIES: Literary and Aesthetic Manifestations of Diaspora and History (2008)
David Trotman
The trans-Atlantic slave trade and the concomitant enslavement of Africans created an enduring connection between Africa and the …
The children of Africa in the colonies : free people of color in Barbados in the age of emancipation (2008)
Melanie Newton
Blues and Bliss: The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke (2008)
George Elliott Clarke
Blues singer, preacher, cultural critic, exile, Africadian, high modernist, spoken word artist, Canadian poet—these are but some of …
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.