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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Independence (2014)
Cecil Foster
Rich with the details of Bajan culture—from food preparation to political and financial affairs, from sexuality to spirituality—Independence …
“Surveillance as Social Regulation: Profiles and Profiling Technology” in Criminalization, Representation, Regulation: Thinking Differently About Crime, 251-284 (2014)
Simone Browne
What is a crime and how do we construct it? The answers to these questions are complex and …
OYA: A Collection of Writings (2014)
d'bi.young anitafrika
OYA is d’bi.young anitafrika’s 3rd collection of writing. The book traverses current socio-political world realities from a very …
“Atlantic Childhoods, Global Contexts” in special issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, 11 (4) (2014)
Audra A. Diptee
This article is an introduction to the special issue dedicated to exploring the ways in which childhood and …
The Promised Land: History and Historiography of the Black Experience in Chatham-Kent’s Settlements and Beyond (2014)
Boulou Ebanda de b'Béri, Nina Reid-Maroney
Eschewing the often romanticized Underground Railroad narrative that portrays southern Ontario as the welcoming destination of Blacks fleeing …
Love Enough (2014)
Dionne Brand
In Love Enough, the sharp beauty of Brand’s writing draws us effortlessly into the intersecting stories of her characters …
Live from the Afrikan Resistance! (2014)
El jones
Live from the Afrikan Resistance! is the first collection of spoken word poetry by Halifax’s fifth Poet Laureate, El …
Gender, Ethnicity and Place: Women and Identity in Guyana (2014)
Alissa D. Trotz
This book is concerned with the nature of the relationship between gender, ethnicity and poverty in the context …
Critical Youth Studies Reader (2014)
Annette Henry
This reader begins a conversation about the many aspects of critical youth studies. Chapters in this volume consider …
The Rhizome of Blackness: A critical ethnography of Hip-Hop culture, language, identity and the politics of becoming (2014)
Awad Ibrahim
The Rhizome of Blackness is a critical ethnographic documentation of the process of how continental African youth are …
“A Daughter of Promise – Diary of a Female African-Canadian Teacher in Rondeau, 1907” in The Promised Land: History and Historiography of the Black Experience in Chatham-Kent’s Settlements and Beyond, Nina Reid-Maroney, Handel K. Wright, Boulou Ebanda de b’Béri, eds. (University of Toronto Press, 2014), 90-105. (2014)
Claudine Bonner
Eschewing the often romanticized Underground Railroad narrative that portrays southern Ontario as the welcoming destination of Blacks fleeing …
The Problem of Slavery in Early Vermont, 1777-1810 (2014)
Harvey Amani Whitfield
Harvey Amani Whitfield forces us to squarely consider the deepest questions about what freedom actually meant for African …
“Crossing colonial boundaries: health and the responses of ‘colonial mediators’ to the crisis of the 1930s in the French and British Caribbean” in Canadian journal of Latin American and Caribbean studies, 38 (2) (2014)
Juanita De Barros
This paper explores the responses of two Caribbean men, the Jamaican Harold Moody and the French Guyanese Félix …
Reproducing the British Caribbean: Sex, Gender, and Population Politics after Slavery (2014)
Juanita De Barros
Invested in the success of the “great experiment” of slave emancipation, colonial officials developed new social welfare and …
“The Race Leapt at Sauteurs: Genocide, Narrative and Indigenous Exile from the Caribbean” in Caribbean Quarterly special issue on the Garifuna people, 60 (2), 5-28 (2014)
Melanie Newton
“‘The Spear is Black with a pure gold point’: Articulations of ‘Blackness’ in Toronto during the 1970s” in Exploring Dimensions of African Diasporas, 180-215 (2014)
Michele A. Johnson
Diasporas comprise an inescapable part of the human experience and few are more interesting and diverse than African …
African Canadian Firsts, Sankofa Black Heritage Collection (2014)
Natasha Henry
The African Diaspora, Sankofa Black Heritage Collection (2014)
Natasha Henry
The Promised Land? History and Historiography of Black Experience in Chatham-Kent’s Settlements and Beyond (2014)
Handel K. Wright
Eschewing the often romanticized Underground Railroad narrative that portrays southern Ontario as the welcoming destination of Blacks fleeing …
“‘Salvaging the Negro’: Vocational Rehabilitation and African American Veterans 1917-1924” in Disability Histories, 321-344 (2014)
Paul Lawrie
“Vigils, murals and the politics of popular commemoration in Jamaica” in At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour respond to Terror (2014)
Honor Ford-Smith
The fear and violence that followed the events of September 11, 2001 touched lives all around the world, …
“Black continental African identities in Canada: Exploring the intersections of identity formation and immigrant transnationalism” in Journal of Canadian Studies (2014)
Joseph Mensah
Notwithstanding the role of immigrants’ transnationalism and identity formation in shaping their settlement and integration process, the burgeoning …
Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry’s Productions (2014)
“Black Studies: in the Wake” The Black Scholar, Special Issue, The Boundaries of Black Studies (2014)
Christina Sharpe
Sharpe details the intellectual work of a continued reckoning the longue duree of Atlantic chattel slavery with black …
“The Lie at the Center of Everything” in Black Studies Papers (2014)
Christina Sharpe
“The global financial crisis and access to health care in Africa” in Africa Today (2014)
Joseph Mensah
Just when health care financing in Africa is expected to pick up due to perceptible improvements in many …
At the limits of justice: Women of colour theorize terror (2014)
Kendra-Ann Pitt
The fear and violence that followed the events of September 11, 2001 touched lives all around the world, …
“Multiracial identity” in C. Gallagher and C. Lippard, Race and Racism in the United States: An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic (2014)
Leanne Taylor
In the 21st century, it is easy for some students and readers to believe that racism is a …
Traverse (2014)
George Elliott Clarke
From Toronto’s poet laureate (2012–15) comes a new book that is a tour de force in confessional verse. …
Creole Continuum (2014)
Kaie Kellough
“Discounting Slavery: The Currency Wars, Minstrelsy, and ‘The White Nigger’ in Thomas Chandler Haliburton’s The Clockmaker” in Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada-US Border. (2014)
Jade Ferguson
The essays collected in Parallel Encounters offer close analysis of an array of cultural representations of the Canada–US …
“Black Civility: Grammars of Black Protest on the Canadian Prairies 1905-1950” in Special Issue CLR James Journal: Black Canadian Thought, 20 (1-2), 83-96 (2014)
Karena Vernon
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.