Dr. Daniel McNeil joins the Black Canadian Studies Certificate as a Visiting Scholar / Visiting Professor from September 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019. McNeil is an associate professor in Migration and Diaspora Studies at Carleton University. Before joining Carleton, he served as the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Professor of African and Black Diaspora Studies at […]
York University has launched its new certificate program in Black Canadian Studies. Spoken word artist, MC and playwright Wendy ‘Motion’ Brathwaite was interviewed by CBC’s Here and Now host Gill Deacon. Motion talked about the new program, its genesis, and about her course — Griots to Emcees — being one of the required credits. “The lens of […]
Author Jamil Jivani on HUMA 1300 and his transformation
AP/HUMA 4306 6.0 Course Director: Christina Sharpe This fourth-year seminar combines creative texts—novels, music, and the visual arts—alongside slave narratives, nonfiction and theoretical works in an examination of questions of Transatlantic slavery, the imagination, and the idea of freedom. In Toni Morrison’s landmark novel Beloved, the character Baby Suggs tells the formerly enslaved and putatively […]
Professor Christina Sharpe, one of the most important contemporary scholars in Black Diaspora Thought and Cultures, has joined the Department of Humanities in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University. Sharpe’s research in Black visual and performance arts, Black literatures and cultures, Black feminist theories and queer studies is widely recognized […]