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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This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto (2008)
Carol Duncan
This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto represents the first detailed exploration of an African-Caribbean religion in the …
Neoliberalism and Globalization in Africa: Contestations on the Embattled Continent (2008)
Joseph Mensah
Zong! (2008)
Crash Politics and Antiracism: Interrogations of Liberal Race Discourse (2008)
Philip Howard
Crash Politics and Antiracism argues that race and racism continue to script the social fabric in Euro-North America. …
African Canadian Leadership: Continuity, Transition Transformation (2008)
Philip Howard
Challenging the myth of African Canadian leadership “in crisis,” this book opens a broad vista of inquiry into …
The Real McCoy (2007)
Andrew Moodie
Andrew Moodie’s latest play tells the biography of the inventor Elijah McCoy (1843-1929), whose name became a byword …
“Visualizing History and Memory in the African Nova Scotian Community” in Multiple Lenses: Voices from the Diaspora Located in Canada (2007)
Sylvia Hamilton
Black Canadian Studies is the exploration of the range of histories, experiences, contributions, perceptions, feelings, convictions, triumphs, and …
Rivers and Other Blackness between Us: (dub) Poems of Love (2007)
d'bi.young anitafrika
In this second collection of poetry from d’bi.young.anitafrika, over 40 new works in rivers… show the complexities of …
Acts of Resistance: Black Men and Women Engage Slavery in Upper Canada, 1793-1803 (2007)
Afua Cooper
This paper examines how enslaved Africans living in Upper Canada at the turn of the 19th century protested …
Multiple Lenses: Voices from the Diaspora located in Canada (2007)
Afua Cooper
Black Canadian Studies is the exploration of the range of histories, experiences, contributions, perceptions, feelings, convictions, triumphs, and …
Soucouyant (2007)
David Chariandy
A soucouyant is an evil spirit in Caribbean folklore, and a symbol here of the distant and dimly …
The Hanging Of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal (2007)
Afua Cooper
Writer, historian and poet Afua Cooper tells the astonishing story of Marie-Joseph Angélique, a slave woman convicted of …
“Collecte et interprétation des données d’apprentissage” in Actes du colloque international sur l’approbation du français et construction de connaissances via la scolarisation en milieu diglossique (2007)
Aimè Avolonto
The Color of Stone: Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America (2007)
Charmaine Nelson
Nineteenth-century neoclassical sculpture was a highly politicized international movement. Based in Rome, many expatriate American sculptors created works …
Blackness and Modernity: The Colour of Humanity and the Quest for Freedom (2007)
Cecil Foster
Foster presents an interdisciplinary analysis of blackness by challenging existing notions of blackness and arguing for the viability …
“Du Congo des évolués au Congo des universitaires” in ‘L’Université dans le devenir de l’Afrique: Un demi-siècle de présence au Congo-Zaՙire, 221-244 (2007)
Gertrude Mianda
L’Université congolaise a fêté son cinquantenaire. De Lovanium d’hier à l’Unikin d’aujourd’hui, du campus de Lubumbashi à celui …
I’VE GOT A HOME IN GLORY LAND: A LOST TALE OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (2007)
Karolyn Smardz-Frost
It was the day before Independence Day, 1831. As his bride, Lucie, was about to be “sold down …
“‘Problematic Bodies’: Negotiations and Terminations in Domestic Service in Jamaica, 1920-1970” in Left History (Special Issue: Domestic Service), 12 (2), 84-112 (2007)
Michele A. Johnson
“Women’s Labours in the Caribbean” in Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal / Revue d’etudes sur les femmes, 32 (1), 2007. (2007)
Michele A. Johnson
“Black Canadian Literature as Diaspora Transgression: The Second Life of Samuel Tyne” in TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 17, 31-49 (2007)
Andrea Davis
This paper attempts to interrogate some of the challenges involved in the ar-ticulation of a black Canadian literature …
Trudeau: Long March & Shining Path (2007)
George Elliott Clarke
George Elliott Clarke’s newest dramatic poem, Trudeau, makes an irreverent, jubilant portrait of the life and politics of one of …
The Book of Negroes (2007)
Lawrence Hill
Development’s Displacements: Economies, Ecologies, and Cultures at Risk (2007)
Pablo Idahosa
As multilateral agencies, social movements, and state authorities worldwide struggle to cope with the effects of large-scale development …
“‘The Fiction of Belonging’: On Second-Generation Black Writing in Canada” in Callaloo, 30 (3), 818-829 (2007)
David Chariandy
Black Canadian writing has been in existence for over two hundred years, and, as such, second-generation writing is …
The New Moon’s Arms (2007)
Nalo Hopkinson
First it’s her mother’s missing gold brooch. Then, a blue and white dish she hasn’t seen in years. …
Shell (2007)
Olive Senior
In Shell, Olive Senior continues her ongoing investigation of the natural world, the nature of poetry and the …
“Exploring a New Direction for Social Work Education and Training in Nigeria”, Social Work Education – The International Journal, 27 (3), 229-242 (2007)
Uzo Anucha
American and British models of professional social work that have been exported to Africa have been critiqued as …
Black Geographies and the Politics of Place (2007)
Karena Vernon
Multi-faceted and erudite, Black Geographies brings into focus the politics of place that black subjects, communities, and philosophers inhabit. Highlights …
“Four Black Film Documentary Moments” in Multiple Lenses – Voices from the Diaspora located in Canada (2007)
Leslie Sanders
Multiple Lenses: Voices from the Diaspora Located in Canada is an essential introduction to an understanding of the …
Copper Woman and Other Poems (2006)
Afua Cooper
Copper Woman and Other Poems is a collection of poems that announces a humanistic vision, dealing with such …
Art on Black (2006)
d'bi.young anitafrika
d’bi.young anitafrika’s first collection of poetry published by Women’s Press in 2006.
Heading South: A Novel (2006)
Dany Laferrière
A steamy exploration of desire and sexual tourism by the author of How to Make Love to a Negro. …
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.