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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“Agency, Social Status and Performing Marriage in Postcolonial Societies” in Journal of Asian and African Studies, 54 (7) (2019)
Sylvia Bawa
This article examines contextually-grounded perspectives on the socio-political significance of marriage in contemporary Ghanaian society. Drawing on qualitative …
“Women and the Human Rights Paradigm in the African Context” in International Human Rights of Women (2019)
Sylvia Bawa
“Promoting Human Rights Responsibilities: The Experience in Ghana’s Gold Mining Industry” in Corporate Actors in Global Governance: Business as Usual or New Deal, 51-74 (2019)
Uwafiokun Idemudia
The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology (2019)
Karena Vernon
This anthology establishes a new black prairie literary tradition and transforms inherited understandings of what prairie literature looks …
“Workshop Negative: Political Theatre in Zimbabwe in the 1980s” in Theatre Research International, 44 (3), 262-272 (2019)
Naila Keleta Mae
Witchmark (2018)
C.L. Polk
C. L. Polk arrives on the scene with Witchmark, a stunning, addictive fantasy that combines intrigue, magic, betrayal, and …
“Black ‘Feminisms’ and Pessimism: Abolishing Moynihan’s Negro Family” in Theory & Event, 21 (1), 68-87 (2018)
Tiffany Lethabo King
“Racial Ecologies: Black Landscapes in Flux” in Racial Ecologies (2018)
Tiffany Lethabo King
Shemurenga Black Supah Shero Comic (2018)
“Racial Ecologies: Black Landscapes in Flux” in Racial Ecologies (2018)
Tiffany Lethabo King
From the Flint water crisis to the Dakota Access Pipeline controversy, environmental threats and degradation disproportionately affect communities …
Smells Like Stars (2018)
David Nandi Odhiambo
Kerstin Ostheim, a journalist, and P. J. Banner, a freelance photographer, have been together six months after meeting …
Women in the “Promised Land”: Essays in African Canadian History (2018)
Boulou Ebanda de b'Béri, Nina Reid-Maroney
Women in the “Promised Land” places African Canadian women’s lived experiences, identities, and histories at the centre of Canada’s …
The Blue Clerk (2018)
Dionne Brand
On a lonely wharf a clerk in an ink-blue coat inspects bales and bales of paper that hold …
Theory (2018)
Dionne Brand
A smart, sensual and witty novel about what happens when love and intellect are set on a collision …
Things Are Good Now (2018)
Djamila Ibrahim
Set in East Africa, the Middle East, Canada, and the U.S., Things Are Good Now examines the weight of the …
“Gaiutra Bahadur’s Coolie Woman: Intimacies, Proximities, Relationalities” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 56 (7) 219-231 (2018)
Alissa D. Trotz
This essay engages a key thematic of Gaiutra Bahadur’s —racialized, gendered and sexualized violence in the making of …
Towards an African Canadian art history : art, memory, and resistance (2018)
Charmaine Nelson
The first book to consolidate the field of African Canadian Art History. Charmaine A. Nelson and a group …
DREAD POETRY AND FREEDOM: LINTON KWESI JOHNSON AND THE UNFINISHED REVOLUTION (2018)
David Austin
In Dread Poetry and Freedom David Austin explores the themes of poetry, political consciousness, and social transformation through the prism …
Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Shaping of Global Black Consciousness (2018)
David Austin
For the first time since 1968, David Austin brings alive the speeches and debates of the most important …
Letters from the Voyages of the Slave Ship Pearl (2018)
David Trotman
The barbarity of the enforced migration of Africans to the Caribbean and the realities of the transatlantic slave …
The Black Social Economy in the Americas: Exploring Diverse Community-Based Markets (2018)
Caroline Hossein
This pioneering book explores the meaning of the term “Black social economy,” a self-help sector that remains autonomous …
“Labouring for Change: Narratives of African-Nova Scotian Women, 1919 – 1990” in Reid-Maroney, N. (ed). Women in the Promised Land: New Essays in African Canadian History. Nina Reid-Maroney, Boulou Ebanda de B’béri, Wanda Thomas Bernard, eds. (Women’s Press / Canadian Scholars 2018). (2018)
Claudine Bonner
Women in the “Promised Land” places African Canadian women’s lived experiences, identities, and histories at the centre of …
Imagining Child Welfare in the Spirit of Reconciliation (2018)
Daniel Kikulwe
Drawing on the expertise of Indigenous scholars and researchers, including voices from the front lines in Manitoba, Saskatchewan …
Black Slavery in the Maritimes: A History in Documents (2018)
Harvey Amani Whitfield
Many thousands of black people were enslaved in the Maritimes, Quebec, and Upper Canada between the seventeenth and …
North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes (2018)
Harvey Amani Whitfield
North to Bondage traces the transition and movement of black people from slavery in the United States to continued …
Washington Black (2018)
Esi Edugyan
Eleven-year-old George Washington Black—or Wash—a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially terrified when he is …
“Performing Queer Marronage: The work of d’bi young anitafika” in Q2Q: Queer Canadian Performance Texts (2018)
Honor Ford-Smith
A companion anthology to Q2Q: Queer Canadian Theatre and Performance, the work contained in this volume provides a …
“Race, Work and Disability in Progressive Era America” in The Oxford Handbook of Disability History, 350-371 (2018)
Paul Lawrie
Throughout U.S. history, the production of difference, whether along racial or disability lines, has been inextricably tied to …
“L’Union Fait La Force: Black Soldiers in the Great War” in First World War Studies, 9 (2) (2018)
Sarah-Jane (Saje) Mathieu
Though the Great War is imagined and discussed as a European conflagration, an epic showdown between white Europeans, …
“The Black Woman Native Speaking Subject: Reflections of a Black Female Professor in Canada” in Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice, 39 (1), 70-78 (2018)
Andrea Davis
“‘Hotel Refuses Negro Nurse’: Gloria Clarke Baylis and the Queen Elizabeth Hotel” in Canadian bulletin of medical history 35 (2), 278-308. (2018)
Karen Flynn
On 2 September 1964, one day after the Act Respecting Discrimination in Employment was introduced in Quebec, Gloria …
Racial Profiling and Human Rights in Canada: The New Legal Landscape (2018)
Lorne Foster
Racial profiling is a hot-button topic that elicits strong responses on both sides. A series of public discussions …
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.