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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“Austin Clarke, Affective Affiliations, and the Cross-Border Poetics of Caribbean Canadian Writing” in Beyond “Understanding Canada:” in Transnational Perspective on Canadian Literature (2017)
Michael Bucknor
The dismantling of “Understanding Canada”—an international program eliminated by Canada’s Conservative government in 2012—posed a tremendous potential setback …
“A Beyoncé Feminist” in Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice, 38 (1), 236-246 (2017)
Naila Keleta Mae
The Hidden Keys (2016)
André Alexis
Inspired by a reading of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, The Hidden Keys questions what it means to be honourable, what …
“New World Grammars: The ‘Unthought’ Black Discourses of Conquest” in Theory and Event, 19 (4) (2016)
Tiffany Lethabo King
“The Labor of (re)Reading Plantation Landscapes Fungible(ly)” in Antipode, 1-18 (2016)
Tiffany Lethabo King
This article centers Saidiya Hartman’s and Hortense Spillers’ theorizations of Black fungibility as well as two speculative visual …
A Fluid Frontier: Slavery, Resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderland (2016)
Afua Cooper
As the major gateway into British North America for travelers on the Underground Railroad, the U.S./Canadian border along …
“Notions of African Childhood in Abolitionist Discourses: Colonial and Post-Colonial Humanitarianism in the Fight Against Child Slavery” in Child Slavery Before & After Emancipation (2016)
Audra A. Diptee
“The Problem of Modern Day Slavery: Is Critical Applied History the Answer?” in Slavery & Abolition, 39 (2), 405-428 (2016)
Audra A. Diptee
“Engaging the Diasporas: An Alternative Paradigm from the Caribbean” in New Rules for Global Justice: Structural Redistribution in the Global Economy (2016)
Alissa D. Trotz
The Education of African Canadian Children: Critical Perspectives (2016)
Awad Ibrahim
Hundreds of thousands of African Canadian children demand and deserve quality education that promotes success both within and …
“Cultivating an ethic of wellness in geography” in Canadian Geographer (2016)
Beverley Mullings
Key Messages There is a crisis of mental health in the academy. This special issue, the first to …
“Introduction: Children, Race, and Racism: Global Perspectives” in Journal of Curriculum, Teaching, Learning and Leadership in Education, 4 (2) (2016)
Beverly-Jean Daniel
Diversity, Justice and Community: The Canadian Context (2016)
Beverly-Jean Daniel
This groundbreaking resource will introduce readers to community justice, a growing field dedicated to mobilizing communities as active …
Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica (2016)
Charmaine Nelson
Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica is among the first Slavery Studies …
Atlantic Childhoods in Global Contexts (2016)
Politicized Microfinance: Money, power and violence in the Black Americas (2016)
Caroline Hossein
When Grameen Bank was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, microfinance was lauded as an important contributor …
Send Little Outbursts across the School: Black Women Teachers and Micro-Resistive Strategies in Ontario Schools, 1960s – 1980s in Education Matters, 3(1) (2016)
Funkè Aladejebi
Transforming Child Welfare: Interdisciplinary Practices, Field Education, and Research (2016)
Daniel Kikulwe
Canada has among the highest rate of children in foster care in the developed world—a national tragedy that …
PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE IMPERIAL PROJECT (2016)
Juanita De Barros
This collection of essays explores the development of public health policies and institutions in the Caribbean. It places …
A Fluid Frontier: Slavery, Resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderland (2016)
Karolyn Smardz-Frost
As the major gateway into British North America for travelers on the Underground Railroad, the U.S./Canadian border along …
“The Tragic Action and Revolutionary Intent of Black Lives: Historical Genealogies of Cornel West’s Prophetic Pragmatism in Post-Racial America” in Truth in the Public Sphere, 63-77 (2016)
Paul Lawrie
Forging a Laboring Race: The African Worker in the Progressive Imagination (2016)
Paul Lawrie
Forging a Laboring Race charts the history of an idea—race management—building on recent work in African American, labor, and …
Canticles I: (MMXVI) (2016)
George Elliott Clarke
Book I of The Canticles puts into dialogue – as dramatic monologues – those who fostered the transatlantic slave trade, …
Gold (2016)
George Elliott Clarke
The poems in Gold glitter. From the lush, unrestrained and unabashed tumble and thrust of his sensual lyrics (vivid expressions …
The Black Church Studies Reader (2016)
Carol Duncan
“Love Is the Message” in Love is the Message, the Message is Death (2016)
Christina Sharpe
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016)
Christina Sharpe
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life …
“Race-ing, classing and gendering racialized women’s participation in entrepreneurship” in Gender, Work and Organization, 23 (3), 310-327 (2016)
Melanie Knight
Accordéon (2016)
Kaie Kellough
Accordéon is an experimental novel, a piercing deconstruction of Québécois culture, an ode to Montréal–a city where everything happens …
“To the End of the Hyphen-Nation: Decolonizing Multiculturalism” in English Studies in Canada, 42 (3-4), 81-98 (2016)
Karena Vernon
Fifteen Dogs (2015)
André Alexis
An utterly convincing and moving look at the beauty and perils of consciousness.
In Your Crib (2015)
Austin Clarke
Two black men: the poet, an elder and veteran of last century’s civil rights movement; and a nameless …
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.