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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“Corporate social responsibility and development in Africa: Issues and possibilities,”in Geography Compass 8 (7) (2014)
Uwafiokun Idemudia
The literature on the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and development in Africa is only just emerging, …
“Growing New Roots: The Housing Experiences of Racialized Newcomers in a Second -Tier Canadian City” in Canadian Social Work– Special Issue on the Settlement and Integration of Newcomers to Canada (2014)
Uzo Anucha
Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis (2014)
Katherine McKittrick
The Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter is best known for her diverse writings that pull together …
“Scratch, Look & Listen: Improvisatory Poetics and Digital DJ Interfaces” in Critical Studies in Improvisation, 10 (1), 1-10 (2014)
Mark V. Campbell
Since 2004, digital interfaces have become the dominant mode in which professional hip hop DJs perform for their …
They Never Told Me: and Other Stories (2013)
Austin Clarke
In this collection, award-winning author Austin Clarke has caught, in his characters, a sweet longing for youth and …
Where The Sun Shines Best (2013)
Austin Clarke
Three Canadian soldiers awaiting deployment to Afghanistan beat a homeless man to death on the steps of their …
Legacies Denied: Unearthing the Visual Culture of Canadian Slavery (2013)
Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal (2013)
David Austin
In the 1960s, for at least a brief moment, Montreal became what seemed an unlikely centre of Black …
Genuine Multiculturalism: The Tragedy and Comedy of Diversity (2013)
While many modern societies are noted for their diversity, the resulting challenge is to determine how citizens from …
“Kinship and Community Care in African Nova Scotian Communities.” in Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, 4 (1) (2013)
Claudine Bonner
“Returns to a Native Land?’ Indigeneity and Decolonisation in the Anglophone Caribbean” in Small Axe, 41, 108-122 (2013)
Melanie Newton
This essay explores the narrative of “aboriginal absence,” arguably the foundational colonial myth of Caribbean history. Since the …
“Mortality as the Life Story of a People: Fredrick L. Hoffman and Actuarial Narratives of African American Extinction, 1896-1915” in Canadian Review of American Studies, 43 (3), 352-387. (2013)
Paul Lawrie
Illicit Sonnets (2013)
George Elliott Clarke
Illicit Sonnets – a bawdy modern reboot of Sonnets from the Portuguese – tells of the love between Salim …
Lasso the Wind: Aurelia’s Verses and other Poems (2013)
George Elliott Clarke
Lasso the Wind is the first collection of children’s poetry by renowned poet and playwright George Elliott Clarke. By …
“Arts funding, the State, and Canadian Nation-making” in Critical Canadian Studies (2013)
Andrea Fatona
“Cultural dimensions of African immigrant housing in Toronto: a qualitative insight” in Housing Studies (2013)
Joseph Mensah
This qualitative study examines the lived experiences of Ghanaians and Somalis in Toronto, highlighting the multifaceted interplays between …
“Ghana’s National Health Insurance: insights from members, administrators, and health care providers” in Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (2013)
Joseph Mensah
The Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was established as part of a poverty reduction strategy to make …
Ghanaian and Somali immigrants in Toronto’s rental market: a comparative cultural perspective of housing issues and coping strategies” in Canadian Ethnic Studies (2013)
Joseph Mensah
Partant du principe que «la culture» a généralement été négligée dans l’analyse du logement des immigrants au Canada, …
Sister Mine (2013)
Nalo Hopkinson
Now adults, Makeda and Abby still share their childhood home. The surgery to separate the two girls gave …
Anna Carries Water (2013)
Olive Senior
Anna fetches water from the spring every day, but she can’t carry it on her head like her …
Monetary Policy and Central Banking: New Directions in Post-Keynesian Theory (2013)
Salewa Olawoye
From ‘remittance’ to ‘tax’: the shifting meanings and strategies of capture of the Eritrean transnational party-state African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal 6 (2) 189-207 (2013)
Sam Tecle
For decades, mass out migration has remained a defining characteristic of Eritrea. The country’s first major refugee crisis …
The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions (2013)
Patrick Taylor
The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions is the definitive reference for Caribbean religious phenomena from a Caribbean perspective. Generously illustrated, …
“A Lack of Public Memory: A Public Memory of Lack” in Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory: Essays in Honour of Barbara Godard (2013)
Phanuel Antwi
Remembering Africa & Its Diasporas: Memory, Public History & Representations of the Past (2012)
Audra A. Diptee
The African Canadian Legal Odyssey: Historical Essays (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History) (2012)
Barrington Walker
The African Canadian Legal Odyssey explores the history of African Canadians and the law from the era of slavery …
One more river to cross (2012)
Bryan Prince
“Students ‘at risk’: Stereotyping and Schooling of Black Boys” in Urban Education 47 (2), 464-494 (2012)
Carl James
This article examines how stereotypes operate in the social construction of African Canadian males as “at risk” students. …
Life at the Intersection: Community, Class and Schooling (2012)
Carl James
The intersection of Jane and Finch in Toronto’s north end has long been portrayed as one of Canada’s …
Remembering Africa & Its Diasporas: Memory, Public History & Representations of the Past (2012)
David Trotman
“I didn’t want to be anything special. I just wanted to teach school”: A Case Study of Black Female Educators in Colchester, Ontario, 1960 in Southern Journal of Canadian Studies, 5 (1-2) (2012)
Funkè Aladejebi
The story of School SecBon #11 (S.S. #11) stood as a sharp reminder of racial injustice and the …
Precarious international multicultural education: Hegemony, dissent and rising alternatives (2012)
Handel K. Wright
Multiculturalism and multicultural education are at a paradoxical moment. There is work that continues as if the multicultural …
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.