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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These Are the Words (2018)
George Elliott Clarke
Canadian poetry at its best. These Are the Words, is maybe ‘the’ best ever Canadian duo authored poetry books. …
Workplace Diversity and Human Rights Primer: Building Inclusive Organizational Practice and Culture (2018)
Lorne Foster
“Hijacking the rule of law in postconflict environments” in European Journal of International Security 4 (1), 1-20 (2018)
Mohamed Sesay
The positive effects of rule of law norms and institutions are often assumed in the peacebuilding literature, with …
“Informal institutional change and the place of traditional justice in Sierra Leone’s post-war reconstruction” in Africa Affairs (2018)
Mohamed Sesay
Abstract Engaging traditional authorities in post-conflict development of the rule of law is expected to preserve progressive elements …
“Diaspora networks: a social capital source for entrepenuership in low-income and emerging economies” in African Diaspora Direct Investment (2018)
Nathaniel Ojong
“Má-ka Juk Yuh: A Genealogy of Black Queer Liveability in Toronto” in Queering Urban Justice: Queer of Colour Formations in Toronto, 62-83 (2018)
OmiSoore Dryden
Queering Urban Justice foregrounds visions of urban justice that are critical of racial and colonial capitalism, and asks: …
“Unpacking Inclusion and Building Queer(er) Alliances” in Upping the Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action, 18, 34-46 (2018)
OmiSoore Dryden
I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter (2018)
David Chariandy
When a moment of quietly ignored bigotry prompted his three-year-old daughter to ask “what happened?” David Chariandy began …
Locating Home: The First African-Canadian Novel and Verse Collections (2018)
George Elliott Clarke
In this unique literary collection, George Elliott Clarke—the pioneering scholar of African-Canadian literature—anthologizes the field’s first collections of …
“(Un)African women: identity, class and moral geographies in postcolonial times” in African Identities, 16 (4) (2018)
Sylvia Bawa
The concrete and abstract geographies of difference on the African continent not only arise from environmental, socio-cultural and …
“Feminists make too much noise!” Generational differences and ambivalence in feminist development politics in Ghana” in Canadian Journal of African Studies, 52 (1), 1-17 (2018)
Sylvia Bawa
Despite the crucial role feminist movements play in securing progressive development policies, legislation and socio-legal protections for women, …
Everything Remains Raw: Photographic Toronto’s Hip Hop Culture from Analogue to Digital (2018)
Mark V. Campbell
A photographic excavation of Toronto’s hip hop archive, …Everything Remains Raw draws on photographs of Kardinal Offishall, Michie Mee, Dream …
“Black girl thought in the work of Ntozake Shange” in Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 12 (2), 32-47 (2018)
Naila Keleta Mae
In this article I examine the performances of black girlhood in two texts by Ntozake Shange—the choreopoem “for …
“Canadian Theatre Made for Black Women” in Theatre Research in Canada, 39 (1), 227-241 (2018)
Naila Keleta Mae
For close to two decades Trey Anthony has carved out a successful career as a published and produced …
Voodoo Hypothesis (2017)
Canisia Lubrin
Voodoo Hypothesis is a subversion of the imperial construct of “blackness” and a rejection of the contemporary and historical …
Brother (2017)
David Chariandy
With shimmering prose and mesmerizing precision, David Chariandy takes us inside the lives of Michael and Francis. They …
“Glass” in Black Notes (2017)
Whitney French
This collection contains stories and poems written by 12 Black women; it is serendipitous that their voices blend …
Business & Society: A Critical Introduction (2017)
Caroline Hossein
Corporations dominate our societies. They employ us, sell to us and influence how we think and who we …
“The African Diaspora in Atlantic Canada: History, Historians, and Historiography” in Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region (2017)
Harvey Amani Whitfield
The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities (2017)
Carl James, Malinda Smith
The university is often regarded as a bastion of liberal democracy where equity and diversity are promoted and …
Reframing Blackness and Black Solidarities Through Anti-colonial and Decolonial Prisms (2017)
George J. Sefa Dei
Steal Away Home (2017)
Karolyn Smardz-Frost
In this compelling work of narrative non-fiction, Governor General’s Award winner Karolyn Smardz Frost captures Cecelia’s epic story …
“‘Mi have to work’: La domesticité des enfants en Jamaïque, 1920-1970” in Situations Contemporaines de Servitude et d’Esclavage: Anthropologie et sociétés, 41 (1), 147-177 (2017)
Michele A. Johnson
Among the tens of thousands of workers who built the domestic employment sector in the XX th century in Jamaica …
“The Ghost of Mikey Smith: Space, Performance and Justice” in Caribbean Quarterly 63 (2-3) (2017)
Honor Ford-Smith
Caribbean quarterly, 2017-07-03, Vol.63 (2-3), p.271-290Description In what follows I ask what Mikey Smith’s death performs?I use the …
“‘The Real Toronto’: Black Youth Experiences and the Narration of the Multicultural City” in Journal of Canadian Studies, 51 (3), 725-748 (2017)
Andrea Davis
Looking back at more than 45 years of official multicultural policy in Canada, this article asks us to …
Canticles I: (MMXVII) (2017)
George Elliott Clarke
The second part of Book I of Canticles continues the dialogue — as dramatic monologues — of those who fostered …
“The Crook of Her Arm” (2017)
Christina Sharpe
The Merchant of Venice (Retried) (2017)
George Elliott Clarke
Whether you’ve encountered his celebrated verse-dramas (such as Whylah Falls or Québécité) or the lush, animated language of his poetry, it …
Labour and Human Rights in China and Canada. APDR Working Papers Series, Vol. 4: Trade and the Right to Labour (2017)
Lorne Foster
The Motorcyclist (2017)
George Elliott Clarke
In vibrant, energetic, sensual prose, George Elliott Clarke brilliantly illuminates the life of a young black man striving …
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (2017)
Robyn Maynard
Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from …
“Castrating Blackness: Surveillance, Profiling and Management in the Canadian Context” in Spaces of Surveillance—States and Selves, 187-210 (2017)
Sam Tecle
Includes an afterword written by Professor Vian Bakir, Bangor University Offers a unique insight into the ways in …
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.