Michele A. Johnson, Funké Aladejebi

Unsettling the Great White North

Black Canadian History
Herausgeber: Johnson, Michele A; Aladejebi, Funké

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Produktbeschreibung

Unsettling the Great White North offers a chronological, regional, and thematic compilation of some of the latest and best scholarship in the field of Black Canadian history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 632
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 908g
• ISBN-13: 9781487529178
• ISBN-10: 1487529171
• Artikelnr.: 61382712

Autorenporträt

Michele A. Johnson is a professor in the Department of History at York University. Funké Aladejebi is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Michele A. Johnson and Funké Aladejebi
Bookend I: The Future Has a Past: Canadian History and Black Modernity
1. Critical Histories of Blackness in Canada
Barrington Walker
Section One: Enslaving Blackness
2. Planting Slavery in Nova Scotia’s Promised Land, 1759-1775
Karolyn Smardz Frost
3. "Where, Oh Where, is Bet?": Locating Enslaved Black Women on the Ontario
Landscape
Natasha Henry
Section Two: Constructing Blackness across Borders and Boundaries
4. A Forgotten Generation: African Canadian History between Fugitive Slaves
and World War I
Adam Arenson
5. Petitioning Power: Canadian Racial Consciousness Meets Alabama
Injustice, 1958
Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey
Section Three: Building Black Communities and Shaping Black Resilience
6. The Shiloh Baptist Church: The Pillar of Strength in Edmonton’s African
American Community, 1910-1940
David Este and Jenna Bailey
7. Establishing Communities
Amoaba Gooden
8. Montreal’s Black Renaissance
Sean Mills
Section Four: Controlling Black (Working) Bodies
9. "Likely to become a public charge": Examining Black Migration to Eastern
Canada, 1900-1930
Claudine Bonner
10. "...not likely to do well or to be an asset to this country": Canadian
Restrictions of Black Caribbean Female Domestic Workers, 1910-1955
Michele A. Johnson
Section Five: "Schooling" Black Canadians
11. Stories from the Little Black School House
Sylvia D. Hamilton
12. Black Education: The Complexity of Segregation in Kent County’s
Nineteenth-Century Schools
Deirdre McCorkindale
13. "We have to strive for the best": The High Aspirations of Black
Caribbean-Canadian Youth of the 1970s and 1980s
Carl E. James
Section Six: Creating New Diasporic Communities: Continental African
Experiences 
14. Creating Spaces of Belonging: Building a New African Community in
Vancouver
Gillian Creese
15. "The part of you that’s Rwanda": Creating a Rwandan Diaspora Community
in the Greater Toronto Area in the Early Twenty-First Century
Anna Ainsworth
Section Seven: Locating Historical Black Presences in Cultural Artefacts
16. Race, Community, and the Picturing of Identities: Photography and the
Black Subject in Ontario, 1860 to 1900
Cheryl Thompson and Julie Crooks
17. Hogan’s Alley Remixed: Wayde Compton’s Performance Bond and the New
Black Can(aan)Lit
Paul Watkins
18. Jazz, Diaspora, and the History and Writing of Black Anglophone
Montreal
Winfried Siemerling
Section Eight: Black Women’s Orality and Knowings
19. "I Don’t Know if I Should Say This": Black Women, Oral History, and
Contesting the Great White North
Funké Aladejebi
20. Re-Thinking and Re-Framing RDS: A Black Woman’s Perspective
Esmerelda M.A. Thornhill
Bookend II: The Past Has a Future: Critical Intellectual Histories of
Blackness
21. Wrestling with Multicultural Snake Oil: A Newcomer’s Introduction to
Black Canada
Daniel McNeil