Professor Desirée de Jesus
In this lecture, Professor de Jesus explains how the research team, which includes Professors Kisha McPherson from Toronto Metropolitan University and Crystal Webster from the University of British Columbia, will use participatory, digital media arts research-creation to identify how Black Canadian girls living in Toronto and Vancouver develop their senses of cultural and national belonging.
These associations between Canadianness, white racial identity, and girlhood have serious implications for the ways that racialized girls living in Canada define their identities in relation to the nation-state.
— Professor Desirée de Jesus
Resources
- Davis, Cienna. “Digital Blackface and the Troubling Intimacies of TikTok Dance Challenges.” In TikTok Cultures in the United States, edited by Trevor Boffone, 28-38. New York: Routledge, 2022.
- Herner, Loren. “Picturing Her: Seeing Again and Again.” Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 3, no. 2 (2011): 100-117.
- Kennedy, Melanie. “‘If the rise of the TikTok dance and e-girl aesthetic has taught us anything, it’s that teenage girls rule the internet right now’: TikTok celebrity, girls and the Coronavirus crisis.” European journal of cultural studies 23, no. 6 (2020): 1069-1076.
- Maynard, Robyn. Policing Black lives: State violence in Canada from slavery to the present. Fernwood Publishing, 2017.
- McKittrick, Katherine. “On plantations, prisons, and a black sense of place.” Social & Cultural Geography 12, no. 8 (2011): 947-963.