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Unsettling the Great White North : Black Canadian History
Title
Unsettling the Great White North : Black Canadian History / ed. by Funké Aladejebi, Michele A. Johnson.
ISBN
9781487529185
Publication
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2022]
Copyright Notice Date
©2022
Physical Description
1 online resource (632 p.) : 3 b&w illustrations, 8 b&w tables
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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In English.
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Summary
Many Canadians tend to imagine themselves as part of the "Great White North," typified by images of snow and wilderness, tropes which reinforce ideologies based on Canadian innocence, "freedom," and a nation founded on British and French European-ness. The presence of enslaved, freed, and migratory persons of African descent in Canada has always presented a potential source of disruption to that image. An exhaustive volume of leading scholarship in the field of Black Canadian history, Unsettling the Great White North highlights the diverse experiences of persons of African descent within the chronicles of Canada's past. The book considers histories and theoretical framings within the disciplines of history, sociology, law, and cultural and gender studies to chart the mechanisms of exclusion and marginalization in "multicultural" Canada and to situate Black Canadians as speakers and agents of their own lives. Working to interrupt the myth of benign whiteness that has been deeply implanted into the country's imagination, contributors use chronological, regional, and thematic analyses to reconsider and uncover new narratives of Black life in Canada. Exploring topics such as settlement, borders, gender, community development, and labour, Unsettling the Great White North contributes to growing historical scholarship on Blackness in Canada and considers the place of resilience and resistance within the colonial legacies of the Canadian nation.
Variant and related titles
De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 07, 2022
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Redacted Text, 2019: Statement from the Artist
Introduction
Bookend I. The Future Has a Past: Canadian History and Black Modernity
1. Critical Histories of Blackness in Canada
Section One. Enslaving Blackness
2. Planting Slavery in Nova Scotia's Promised Land, 1759-1775
3. Where, Oh Where, Is Bet? Locating Enslaved Black Women on the Ontario Landscape
Appendix A. Listing of Black People Enslaved in Belleville, Ontario
Section Two. Constructing Blackness across Borders and Boundaries
4. A Forgotten Generation: African Canadian History between Fugitive Slaves and World War I
5. Petitioning Power: Canadian Racial Consciousness Meets Alabama Injustice, 1958
Section Three. Building Black Communities and Shaping Black Resilience
6. The Shiloh Baptist Church: The Pillar of Strength in Edmonton's African American Community
7. Establishing Communities
8. Montreal's Black Renaissance
Section Four. Controlling Black (Working) Bodies
9. "Likely to become a public charge": Examining Black Migration to Eastern Canada, 1900-1930
10. "... not likely to do well or to be an asset to this country": Canadian Restrictions of Black Caribbean Female Domestic Workers, 1910-1955
Section Five. "Schooling" Black Canadians
11. Stories from The Little Black School House
12. Black Education: The Complexity of Segregation in Kent County's Nineteenth-Century Schools
13. "We have to strive for the best": The High Aspirations of Black Caribbean Canadian Youth of the 1970s and 1980s
Section Six. Creating New Diasporic Communities: Continental African Experiences
14. Creating Spaces of Belonging: Building a New African Community in Vancouver
15. "The part of you that's Rwanda": Creating a Rwandan Diaspora Community in the Greater Toronto Area in the Early Twenty-First Century
Section Seven. Locating Historical Black Presences in Cultural Artefacts
16. Race, Community, and the Picturing of Identities: Photography and the Black Subject in Ontario, 1860-1900
17. Hogan's Alley Remixed: Wayde Compton's Performance Bond and the New Black Can(aan) Lit
18. Jazz, Diaspora, and the History and Writing of Black Anglophone Montreal
19. "I don't know if I should say this": Black Women, Oral History, and Contesting the Great White North
20. Re-thinking and Re-framing RDS: A Black Woman's Perspective
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
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