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Unsettling the Great White North
Black Canadian History
Michele A. Johnson (Edited by), Funké Aladejebi (Edited by)
9781487529178
Paperback / softback, published 7 March 2022
632 pages, 3 b&w illustrations, 8 b&w tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm, 0.83 kg
"Under the stewardship of Johnson and Aladejebi, Unsettling the Great White North provides an important and necessary scholarly intervention that recognizes Black agency in Canadian history and will certainly serve as a guiding anthology for both classrooms and the public in how we think about Canada."
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, Unsettling the Great White North uncovers new narratives of Black life in Canada.
Preface 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 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, 1910–1940 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 to 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 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 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
Michele A. Johnson and Funké Aladejebi
Barrington Walker
Karolyn Smardz Frost
Natasha Henry
Adam Arenson
Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey
David Este and Jenna Bailey
Amoaba Gooden
Sean Mills
Claudine Bonner
Michele A. Johnson
Sylvia D. Hamilton
Deirdre McCorkindale
Carl E. James
Gillian Creese
Anna Ainsworth
Cheryl Thompson and Julie Crooks
Paul Watkins
Winfried Siemerling
Funké Aladejebi
Esmerelda M.A. Thornhill
Daniel McNeil