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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“Sisterhood versus Discrimination: Being a Black African Francophone Immigrant Woman in Montreal and Toronto”. in Sisters or Strangers? Immigrant Women, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History (2004)
Gertrude Mianda
Spanning two hundred years of history from the nineteenth century to the 1990s, Sisters or Strangers? explores the …
Femmes africaines et pouvoir. Les maraîchè res de Kinshasa (2004)
Gertrude Mianda
Spanning two hundred years of history from the nineteenth century to the 1990s, Sisters or Strangers? explores the …
The Second Life of Samuel Tyne (2004)
Esi Edugyan
Once a young Ghanaian emigrant of outstanding promise, Samuel Tyne is languishing as a low-level civil servant in …
Neither Led Nor Driven: Contesting British Cultural Imperialism in Jamaica, 1865-1920 (2004)
Michele A. Johnson
An examination of the cultural evolution of the Jamaican people after the explosive uprising at Morant Bay in …
“Urban British Guiana, 1838-1924: Wharf Rats, Centipedes, and Pork Knockers” in Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562–1955 (2004)
Juanita De Barros
“Diaspora, Citizenship and Gender: Challenging the Myth of the Nation in African Canadian Women’s Literature” in Canadian Woman Studies, 23 (2), 64-69 (2004)
Andrea Davis
Black women writers in the Americas are engaged consciously or unconsciously in cross-border, cross-cultural dialogue. In opening up …
Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race and Sexual Labour (2004)
Kamala Kempadoo
This unprecedented work provides both the history of sex work in this region as well as an examination …
Cuba: A Revolution in Motion (2004)
Issac Saney
This accessible, up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to Cuba today provides both students and general readers with a sense …
Gospel Plays, Operas, and Late Dramatic Works. Volume 6. The Collected Works of Langston Hughes (2004)
Leslie Sanders
This volume focuses on Hughes’s plays after 1942, along with all of his other work written for performance, …
Choosing His Coffin: The Best Stories of Austin Clarke (2003)
Austin Clarke
From the author of the Giller Award – winning novel The Polished Hoe comes a new collection of 20 of …
Kipligat’s Chance (2003)
David Nandi Odhiambo
This bittersweet novel portrays John “Leeds” Kipligat, a 16-year-old Kenyan émigré living in Vancouver who decides to become …
“Stan Douglas and the Aesthetic Critique of Urban Decline” in Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies, 3 (1), 8-21 (2003)
Warren Crichlow
Over the past two decades, Vancouver-based artist Stan Douglas has produced an evolving body of photographic, slide projection …
The Adventures of A Black Girl in Search of God (2003)
Djanet Sears
From Governor General’s Literary Award–winning playwright Djanet Sears comes a beautiful and deeply moving story set in present-day …
Trans-Atlantic Dimensions of Ethnicity in the African Diaspora (2003)
David Trotman
This group of essays, resulting from research affiliated with the UNESCO Slave Route Project, explores trans-Atlantic linkages and …
“Black Refugee Communities in Early Nineteenth Century Nova Scotia” in Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, 6 (2003)
Harvey Amani Whitfield
Quebecite (2003)
George Elliott Clarke
“Learning to Live Without Black Familia: Cherríe Moraga’s Nationalist Articulations” in Tortilleras: Hispanic and Latina Lesbian Expression, 240-257 (2003)
Christina Sharpe
The first anthology to focus exclusively on queer readings of Spanish, Latin American, and US Latina lesbian literature …
Globalizing Africa (2003)
Malinda Smith
At the outset of the twenty-first century, Afropessimism permeates both the scholarly and popular literatures on Africa. In …
Disrupting Queer Inclusion: Canadian Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging (2003)
OmiSoore Dryden
Canada likes to present itself as a paragon of gay rights. This book contends that Canada’s acceptance of …
The Populist Dimension to African Political Thought: Critical Essays in Reconstruction and Retrieval (2003)
Pablo Idahosa
Franz Fanon, Amílcar Cabral and Julius Nyerere were three of Africas most influential activist-practioners of anti-colonialism and socialism. …
The Salt Roads (2003)
Nalo Hopkinson
In 1804, shortly before the Caribbean island of Saint Domingue is renamed Haiti, a group of women gather …
The Polished Hoe (2002)
Austin Clarke
When an elderly Bimshire village woman calls the police to confess to a murder, the result is a …
The Stone Virgins: A Novel (2002)
Yvonne Vera
In 1980, after decades of guerilla war against colonial rule, Rhodesia earned its hard-fought-for independence from Britain. Less …
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: Next Stop, Toronto! (2002)
Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper, Karolyn Smardz-Frost
A richly illustrated book, examines the urban connection of the clandestine system of secret routes, safe houses and …
Thirsty (2002)
Dionne Brand
This is a poem about the city. About a man who has visions, hovering on the edge but …
Order and Place in a Colonial City: Patterns of Struggle and Resistance in Georgetown, British Guiana, 1889-1924 (2002)
Juanita De Barros
Throughout the post-slavery Caribbean, former slaves and masters fought to determine the shape of the new free societies. …
“‘Canada in Us Now’: Locating the Criticism of Black Canadian Writing” in Essays on Canadian Writing, 75, 196-216 (2002)
David Chariandy
The Heart Does Not Bend (2002)
Makeda Silvera
Family loyalty, betrayal and the redemptive power of love are at the heart of this poignant and unforgettable …
Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature (2002)
George Elliott Clarke
George Elliott Clarke identifies African-Canadian literature’s distinguishing characteristics, argues for its relevance to both African Diasporic Black and …
The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move, Volume 5. The Collected Works of Langston Hughes (2002)
Leslie Sanders
Volume 5 of The Collected Works of Langston Hughes includes the plays Hughes wrote between 1930 and 1942, alone and …
Dry Bone Memories (2001)
Cecil Foster
With protean virtuosity, Cecil Foster is back on the Canadian publishing scene with an extraordinary novel of love …
DRAGONS CRY (2001)
Tessa McWatt
Over the course of the evening following the burial of his older brother, David, Simon and his partner, …
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.