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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Days by Moonlight (2019)
André Alexis
Gulliver’s Travels meets The Underground Railroad: a road trip through the countryside – and the psyche – by …
THE BLUE ROAD (2019)
Wayde Compton
In this stunning graphic novel, Lacuna is a girl without a family, a past, or a proper home. …
dubbin poetry: the collected poems of d’bi.young anitafrika (2019)
d'bi.young anitafrika
The collection broaches a wide range of themes and theories including Anti-Black Racism, Biomythography, Black Feminist Thought, Childhood …
Frying Plantain (2019)
Zalika Reid-Benta
Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle — of her North American identity and her desire …
The Black Shoals (2019)
Tiffany Lethabo King
In The Black Shoals Tiffany Lethabo King uses the shoal—an offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor …
THEY CALL ME GEORGE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BLACK TRAIN PORTERS (2019)
Cecil Foster
Smartly dressed and smiling, Canada’s black train porters were a familiar sight to the average passenger—yet their minority …
Black Writers Matter (2019)
Whitney French
“Black Writers? African, Bluesy, Classical, Disrespectful, Erudite, Fiery, Groovy, Haunting, Inspiring, Jazzy, Knowing, Liberating, Militant, Nervy, Optimistic, Pugnacious, …
Unmasking the State: Politics, Society and Economy in Guyana 1992-2015 (2019)
Alissa D. Trotz
Standard political economy and historical analyses of post-independence Guyana tend to focus on the period of authoritarian rule …
“‘We especially welcome applications from visible minorities’: Reflections on race, gender and life at three universities” in Race, Ethnicity and Education, 18 (5), 589–610 (2019)
Annette Henry
This autoethnographic account documents and analyses university life as a racialised woman who has worked in both Canadian …
“Standing firm on uneven ground: A letter to Black women on academic leadership” in African Canadian Leadership. Continuity, Transition and Transformation (2019)
Annette Henry
Challenging the myth of African Canadian leadership “in crisis,” this book opens a broad vista of inquiry into …
Black Immigrants in North America: Essays on Race, Immigration, Identity, Language, Hip-Hop, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Becoming Black (2019)
Awad Ibrahim
The first wave of Black immigrants arrived in North America during the 1960s and 1970s, coming originally from …
In This Together: Blackness, Indigeneity and Hip Hop (2019)
Awad Ibrahim
This volume is a pause, an attempt to create a cartography of the ever-shifting and ever-changing process of …
“Garrison Communities” in Keywords in Radical Geography: Antipode at 50, 141-145 (2019)
Beverley Mullings
To celebrate Antipode’s 50th anniversary, we’ve brought together 50 short keyword essays by a range of scholars at …
“Reflections on mentoring as decolonial, transnational, feminist praxis” in Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 25 (2), 1-18 (2019)
Beverley Mullings
In this article we reflect on questions of mentorship for racialized scholars within the increasingly neoliberal academic landscapes …
“But, I don’t believe it’s about race’: Challenging fallacies of race and racism amongst early childhood educators in Ontario” in Journal of Curriculum, Teaching, Learning and Leadership in Education (2019)
Beverly-Jean Daniel
There is the continued belief that children do not see race and that they are racially innocent. This …
“Writing Black Canadian Women’s History: Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going” in Reading Canadian Women’s and Gender History (2019)
Funkè Aladejebi
“In Slavery and Freedom: Domestic Service in the Caribbean” in Slavery, Resistance and Abolitions: A Pluralist Perspective, 197-214 (2019)
Michele A. Johnson
“The Body and Performance in 1970s Jamaica: Toward a Decolonial Cultural Method” in Small Axe 23 (1), 150-168 (2019)
Honor Ford-Smith
This essay discusses decolonization, performance, and education in the 1970s in Jamaica and argues that embodied performances of …
BlackLife: Post- BLM and the Struggle for Freedom (2019)
Idil Abdillahi
What does it mean in the era of Black Lives Matter to continue to ignore and deny the …
“The Early Black Press in Canada” in Media Across the African Diaspora: Contents, Audiences and Influence (2019)
Tokunbo Ojo
This volume gathers scholarship from varying disciplinary perspectives to explore media owned or created by members of the …
“Un/Belonging in Diasporic Cities: A Literary History of Caribbean Women in London and Toronto” in Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, 13, 17-50 (2019)
Andrea Davis
This article traces a comparative literary history of Black Caribbean women’sexperiences in diaspora in the post-war period from …
Portia White: A Portrait in Words (2019)
George Elliott Clarke
In his unique brand of spoken word, Africadian poetry, the incomparable George Elliott Clarke explores a personal subject: …
Settling Down and Setting Up: The Second Generation in Black Canadian Black British Women’s Writing (2019)
Andrea Medovarski
Comparing second generation children of immigrants in black Canadian and black British women’s writing, Settling Down and Settling Up extends …
“In Search of Zora/When Metadata Isn’t Enough: Rescuing the Experiences of Black Women Through Statistical Modeling” in Journal of Library Metadata, 19 (3-4), 141-162 (2019)
Karen Flynn
This study used statistical topic modeling to examine 800,000 documents within HathiTrust and JSTOR databases to identify the …
“Writing Black Canadian women’s history: Where we have been and where we are going” in Reading Canadian Women’s and Gender History, 63-89 (2019)
Karen Flynn
Inspired by the question of “what’s next?” in the field of Canadian women’s and gender history, this broadly …
“Discourses of Migration and Belonging: How Language Shapes the Return-Thinking Processes of Ethiopians in Canada” in Clinical Social Work Journal (2019)
Lorne Foster
This study examined how 15 Ethiopian-Canadian immigrants define and express their post-migration intentions. Specifically, this paper explores how …
“Black Women’s Small Businesses as Historical Spaces of Resistance” in Working Women in Canada: An Intersectional Approach, 203-222 (2019)
Melanie Knight
In this edited collection, Leslie Nichols weaves together the contributions of accomplished and diverse scholars to offer an …
“Whiteness invented” in Power and Everyday Practices, 147-169 (2019)
Melanie Knight
This unique and innovative text provides undergraduate students with tools to think sociologically through the lens of everyday …
Magnetic Equator (2019)
Kaie Kellough
An original, inventive–and visually stunning–exploration of place, identity, language, and experience from the acclaimed poet, novelist, and sound …
Boonoonoonous Hair (2019)
Olive Senior
In this vibrant and exquisitely illustrated picture book, written by Commonwealth Prize—winning Jamaican—Canadian Olive Senior, and with pictures …
“Whose values; who’s valued? Race and racialization in Québec” in Journal of Critical Race Inquiry 6 (1), 1-31 (2019)
Rosalind Hampton
The first week of February 2014 saw the tragic deaths of two young people in Québec: Naïma Rharouity, …
“‘People come and go but we don’t see anything’: How Might Social Research Contribute to Social Change?” in The Qualitative Report, 24 (11) (2019)
Sylvia Bawa
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.