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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Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness (2015)
Simone Browne
In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is …
Higher Ed (2015)
Tessa McWatt
In her most powerful and resonant novel to date, the acclaimed writer Tessa McWatt explores the ways in …
THE OUTER HARBOUR (2015)
Wayde Compton
In his debut story collection, poet Wayde Compton explores the concept of place and identity in which characters …
The Revolving City: 51 Poems and the Stories Behind Them (2015)
Wayde Compton
The Revolving City: 51 Poems and the Stories Behind Them is a vibrant and diverse collection from a who’s …
My brother’s keeper : African Canadians and the American Civil War (2015)
Bryan Prince
The Outer Harbour (2015)
Wayde Compton
In his debut story collection, poet Wayde Compton explores the concept of place and identity in which characters …
The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past (2015)
Winfred Siemerling
Readers are often surprised to learn that black writing in Canada is over two centuries old. Ranging from …
“Diasporic reasoning, affect, memory and cultural politics: An interview with Avtar Brah” in Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 36 (2), 243–263. (2015)
Annette Henry
This interview explores the intellectual contours of Stuart Hall’s work through the insights of Professor Avtar Brah, Emerita, …
“Reflection: Groundings – A framework for educational inquiry” in Afrocentric practice and education for human freedom: The through the years I keep on toiling: The selected works of Joyce E. King, 19–21 (2015)
Annette Henry
A dynamic leader and visionary teacher/scholar, Joyce E. King has made important contributions to the knowledge base on …
We Got Our Quota: Black Female Educators and Resistive Pedagogies, 1960s-1980s in Ontario History, 107 (1) (2015)
Funkè Aladejebi
Examining the oral histories of black women teachers, this article explores the ways in which black women’s workplace …
“Ah look afta de chile like is mine’: Discourses of Mothering in Jamaican Domestic Service, 1920-1970” in Colonization and Domestic Service: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, 79-96 (2015)
Michele A. Johnson
This groundbreaking book brings together two key themes that have not been addressed together previously in any sustained …
“An Integrated Approach to Urban Waste Management in a Developing Country: A Case Study of the Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana” in British Journal of Applied Science & Technology (2015)
Jeffrey Squire
“Ebola in West Africa: Equity and Human Rights Issues in the Global Response. A Synthesis”. in Righting Humanity in Our Time (2015)
Jeffrey Squire
“Narrative Moment and Self-Anthropologizing Discourse” in Research in African Literatures, 46 (3) (2015)
Amatorisero Ede
Extra Illicit Sonnets (2015)
George Elliott Clarke
Extra Illicit Sonnets chronicles a love affair between a man and a woman of different complexions, cultures, continents, and …
Objects, Histories, and Memory, in conjunction with the exhibition, “Mining Memory: Sylvia D. Hamilton” Thames Art Gallery (2015)
Andrea Fatona
“Three Scenes” in On Marronage: Ethical Confrontations with Anti-Blackness (2015)
Christina Sharpe
On Marronage: Ethical Confrontations with Antiblackness is a collective intervention into the discursive formation of black studies at …
“Seeing/being double: how African immigrants in Canada balance their ethno-racial and national identities” in African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal (2015)
Joseph Mensah
With increased transnational ties to their homelands, immigrants’ ontology now verges on being double – and, consequently, on …
“The Black, continental African presence and the nation-immigration dialectic in Canada” in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (2015)
Joseph Mensah
How is the Canadian national identity constructed? What are the relationships between the national identity and the immigration …
“Living up to expectations: 2nd and 1.5-generation immigrant students’ pursuit of university education” in Engendering Transnational Voices: Studies in Family, Work, and Identity (2015)
Leanne Taylor
Engendering Transnational Voices examines the transnational practices and identities of immigrant women, youth, and children in an era …
The Stone Thrower (2015)
Jael Richardson
The African-American football player Chuck Ealey grew up in a segregated neighbourhood of Portsmouth, Ohio. Against all odds, …
The Illegal (2015)
Lawrence Hill
Harmonizing Customary Justice with International Rule of Law? Lessons from Post-conflict Sierra Leone” in Evaluating Transitional Justice: Accountability and Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone (2015)
Mohamed Sesay
“Fighting words with wrongs? How Canadian anti-trafficking crusades have failed sex workers, migrants, and Indigenous communities” in Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice (2015)
Robyn Maynard
Indigenous populations, sex workers, and migrants have been legally, socially, and economically disenfranchised by the Canadian state in …
Falling in Love with Hominids (2015)
Nalo Hopkinson
In this long-awaited collection, Hopkinson continues to expand the boundaries of culture and imagination. Whether she is retelling The …
“The Caribbean, On Screen: A Conversation with Frances-Anne Solomon” in Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 6 (2) (2015)
Hyacinth Simpson
“‘This is our Alabama’: Racial Segregation, Discrimination, and Violence in Tamio Wakayama’s Signs of Life” in The Global South, 9 (1), 124-146 (2015)
Jade Ferguson
This essay examines the civil rights photography of TamioWakayama. In 1963, Wakayama, a twenty-year-old Japanese Canadian philosophy student, …
The Pain Tree (2015)
“Intervention strategies to address elder abuse of ethnoracial minority older adults from different communities” in S. Koehn and M. Badger (Eds.), Health care equity for ethnic minority older adults. Gerontology Research Centre, Simon Fraser University (2015) (2015)
Shamette Hepburn
Blackening Canada: Diaspora, Race, Multiculturalism (2015)
Paul Barrett
Focusing on the work of black, diasporic writers in Canada, particularly Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, and Tessa McWatt, Blackening …
Pastoral (2014)
André Alexis
Andre Alexis brings a modern sensibility and a new liveliness to an age-old genre, the pastoral.
And I Alone Escaped to Tell You (2014)
Sylvia Hamilton
The settlement of African peoples in Nova Scotia is a richly layered story encompassing many waves of settlement …
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.