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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Inventory (2006)
Dionne Brand
In Dionne Brand’s incantatory, deeply engaged, beautifully crafted long poem, the question is asked, What would an inventory …
Racial Profiling in Canada: Challenging the Myth of ‘a Few Bad Apples.’ (2006)
Francis Henry
In October 2002, the Toronto Star ran a series of feature articles on racial profiling in which it …
Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815–1860 (2006)
Harvey Amani Whitfield
Following the American Revolution, free black communities and enslaved African Americans increasingly struggled to reconcile their African heritage …
Black (2006)
George Elliott Clarke
Blistering with defiance, tempered with tenderness and desire, Black is a startlingly passionate collection of poems from one of Canada’s …
Beyond Fragmentation: Perspectives on Caribbean History (2006)
David Trotman, Juanita De Barros
Beyond the ‘African Tragedy’: Discourses on Development and the Global Economy (2006)
Malinda Smith
Well researched and insightful, this volume examines the historical and contemporary discourse on African development and the continent’s …
“Postcolonial Diasporas” in Postcolonial Text, 2 (1) (2006)
David Chariandy
We are still struggling to develop adequate terms for the profound socio-cultural dislocations resulting from modern colonialism and …
“When a Bed is Home: The Challenges and Paradoxes of Community Development in a Shared Housing Program for Homeless People” in Canadian Review of Social Policy (58) – Special Edition on Canadian Homelessness, 62-83 (2006)
Uzo Anucha
There is no wishing away the fact that homelessness has grown into a socio-political problem of alarming proportions …
Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle (2006)
Katherine McKittrick
Demonic Grounds moves between past and present, archives and fiction, theory and everyday, to focus on places negotiated by …
blood.claat (2005)
d'bi.young anitafrika
blood.claat is a full-length one-woman play by d’bi.young.anitafrika, which is presented in both English and Spanish (sangre with translation by queen nzinga …
What We All Long For (2005)
Dionne Brand
What We All Long For follows the overlapping stories of a close circle of second-generation twenty-somethings living in …
Contesting freedom : control and resistance in the post-emancipation Caribbean (2005)
David Trotman
Where Race Does Not Matter: The New Spirit of Modernity (2005)
Cecil Foster
Originally intended to be a white man’s country, Canada helped develop the prototype for the nation-state that privileged …
From American slaves to Nova Scotian subjects : the case of the Black refugees, 1813-1840 (2005)
Harvey Amani Whitfield
Who Da Man? Black Masculinities and Sporting Cultures (2005)
Gamal Abdel Shehid
Who Da Man? offers a highly original approach to Black masculinities and sport in Canada. This book will …
“‘Working Cutlass and Shovel’: Labour and Redemption at the Onderneeming School in British Guiana” in Contesting Freedom: Control and Resistance in the Post-emancipation Caribbean (2005)
Juanita De Barros
George and Rue (2005)
George Elliott Clarke
By all accounts, the bludgeoning murder in 1949 of a taxi driver by brothers George and Rufus Hamilton …
Illuminated Verses (2005)
George Elliott Clarke
With fire, verve, and intensity, George Elliott Clarke gives readers a new work in which to immerse themselves …
“Gayl Jones’ ‘Days that were Pages of Hysteria.'” in Revisiting Slave Narratives / Les avatars contemporains des récits d’esclaves, 159-176 (2005)
Christina Sharpe
This collection offers a follow up to the first collection of essays Revisiting Slave Narratives / Les Avatars …
Lettricity: Poems (2005)
Kaie Kellough
Over the Roofs of the World (2005)
Olive Senior
Using nature as both model and metaphor, Toronto resident Olive Senior delves into birds, flying, and Caribbean life …
“A Daughter’s Journey” in Canadian Woman Studies /l es cahiers de la femme, 23 (2) (2004)
Sylvia Hamilton
This Body (2004)
Tessa McWatt
This Body is a tender portrait of two people whose losses radiate and reflect against one another, each searching …
PERFORMANCE BOND (2004)
Wayde Compton
In Performance Bond, Wayde Compton, among the most progressive and experimental poets in Canada, defiantly and eloquently confronts the …
I Came As a Stranger: The Underground Railroad (2004)
Bryan Prince
Prior to abolition in 1865, as many as 40,000 men, women, and children made the perilous trip north …
La Brûlerie (2004)
Émile Ollivier
Au contact des mots, Montréal, Les Éditions Linguatech (2004)
Aimè Avolonto
Au contact des mots: corrigé (2004)
Aimè Avolonto
Ce livre s’adresse à des étudiants qui cherchent à enrichir leur vocabulaire et à se renseigner sur la …
Le participe passé facile: de la kyrielle de règles à un seul principe (2004)
Aimè Avolonto
Racism Eh? : A Critical Inter-Disciplinary Anthology of Race in the Canadian Context (2004)
Charmaine Nelson
“Globalization and the territorializaton of the new Caribbean service economy” in Journal of Economic Geography 4 (3), 275-298. (2004)
Beverley Mullings
“African and New World African Immigration to Mainland Nova Scotia, 1749-1816” in Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, 7 (2004)
Harvey Amani Whitfield
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.