{"product_id":"unsettling-the-great-white-north-black-canadian-history-paperback-softback-9781487529178","title":"Unsettling the Great White North; Black Canadian History (Paperback \/ softback) 9781487529178","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eUnsettling the Great White North\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBlack Canadian History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichele A. Johnson (Edited by), Funké Aladejebi (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487529178\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 7 March 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e632 pages, 3 b\u0026amp;w illustrations, 8 b\u0026amp;w tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm, 0.83 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Under the stewardship of Johnson and Aladejebi, \u003ci\u003eUnsettling the Great White North \u003c\/i\u003eprovides 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Cameron Tardif (\u003cem\u003eAmerican Review of Canadian Studies\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn exhaustive volume of leading scholarship in the field of Black Canadian history, \u003ci\u003eUnsettling the Great White North\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the diverse experiences of persons of African descent within the chronicles of Canada\u0026amp;#x2019;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\u0026amp;#x2019;s imagination, \u003ci\u003eUnsettling the Great White North\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers new narratives of Black life in Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003eMichele A. Johnson and Funké Aladejebi \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBookend I: The Future Has a Past: Canadian History and Black Modernity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Critical Histories of Blackness in Canada\u003cbr\u003eBarrington Walker\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection One: Enslaving Blackness\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Planting Slavery in Nova Scotia\u0026amp;#x2019;s Promised Land, 1759–1775\u003cbr\u003eKarolyn Smardz Frost \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. \"Where, Oh Where, is Bet?\": Locating Enslaved Black Women on the Ontario Landscape\u003cbr\u003eNatasha Henry \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection Two: Constructing Blackness across Borders and Boundaries\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. A Forgotten Generation: African Canadian History between Fugitive Slaves and World War I\u003cbr\u003eAdam Arenson\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Petitioning Power: Canadian Racial Consciousness Meets Alabama Injustice, 1958\u003cbr\u003eWendell Nii Laryea Adjetey\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection Three: Building Black Communities and Shaping Black Resilience\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The Shiloh Baptist Church: The Pillar of Strength in Edmonton\u0026amp;#x2019;s African American Community, 1910–1940\u003cbr\u003eDavid Este and Jenna Bailey \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Establishing Communities\u003cbr\u003eAmoaba Gooden \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Montreal\u0026amp;#x2019;s Black Renaissance\u003cbr\u003eSean Mills \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection Four: Controlling Black (Working) Bodies \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. \"Likely to become a public charge\": Examining Black Migration to Eastern Canada, 1900–1930\u003cbr\u003eClaudine Bonner\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. \"…not likely to do well or to be an asset to this country\": Canadian Restrictions of Black Caribbean Female Domestic Workers, 1910–1955\u003cbr\u003eMichele A. Johnson\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection Five: \"Schooling\" Black Canadians \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Stories from the Little Black School House\u003cbr\u003eSylvia D. Hamilton \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Black Education: The Complexity of Segregation in Kent County\u0026amp;#x2019;s Nineteenth-Century Schools\u003cbr\u003eDeirdre McCorkindale\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. \"We have to strive for the best\": The High Aspirations of Black Caribbean-Canadian Youth of the 1970s and 1980s\u003cbr\u003eCarl E. James \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection Six: Creating New Diasporic Communities: Continental African Experiences  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Creating Spaces of Belonging: Building a New African Community in Vancouver\u003cbr\u003eGillian Creese\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. \"The part of you that\u0026amp;#x2019;s Rwanda\": Creating a Rwandan Diaspora Community in the Greater Toronto Area in the Early Twenty-First Century\u003cbr\u003eAnna Ainsworth\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection Seven: Locating Historical Black Presences in Cultural Artefacts \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Race, Community, and the Picturing of Identities: Photography and the Black Subject in Ontario, 1860 to 1900\u003cbr\u003eCheryl Thompson and Julie Crooks \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Hogan\u0026amp;#x2019;s Alley Remixed: Wayde Compton\u0026amp;#x2019;s Performance Bond and the New Black Can(aan)Lit\u003cbr\u003ePaul Watkins \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Jazz, Diaspora, and the History and Writing of Black Anglophone Montreal\u003cbr\u003eWinfried Siemerling \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection Eight: Black Women\u0026amp;#x2019;s Orality and Knowings \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. \"I Don\u0026amp;#x2019;t Know if I Should Say This\": Black Women, Oral History, and Contesting the Great White North \u003cbr\u003eFunké Aladejebi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. Re-Thinking and Re-Framing RDS: A Black Woman\u0026amp;#x2019;s Perspective\u003cbr\u003eEsmerelda M.A. Thornhill\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBookend II: The Past Has a Future: Critical Intellectual Histories of Blackness\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. Wrestling with Multicultural Snake Oil: A Newcomer\u0026amp;#x2019;s Introduction to Black Canada\u003cbr\u003eDaniel McNeil \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595753746712,"sku":"9781487529178","price":23.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/unsettling-the-great-white-north-black-canadian-history-paperback-softback-9781487529178","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}