Harriet's legacies : race, historical memory, and futures in Canada / Ronald Cummings and Natalee Caple.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cummings, Ronald, author.

Caple, Natalee, 1970- author.

Series:

Carleton Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913.

Tubman, Harriet.

Black people.

Black people--Race identity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (439 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : M C Gill-Queen's University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Harriet's Legacies articulates new critical terrain for the historic freedom fighter Harriet Tubman by recuperating the significance of Tubman's time in Canada as not just an interlude in her American narrative but another site for thinking about Black diasporic mobilities, possibilities, and histories.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments and a Brief Note on Editorial Choice

Introduction On the Non-linearity of Legacy: Harriet Tubman and Our Current Historical Juncture

Section One On the Legacies of Radical Mobility

1 The Cataract House Hotel: Underground to Canada through the Niagara River Borderlands

2 A Selection of "Canticles" (Meditations on Slavery and Imperialism)

3 Radical Legacies in Black Nineteenth-Century Canadian Writing

4 The Miracle of Ann Maria Jackson, Slave Fugitive and Heroine of the Underground Railroad

5 Free Black North: Photography and Transnational Identities in Nineteenth-Century Southern Ontario

6 Colour-Phobia in Canada: William Wells Brown's Cosmopolitan Mobility

Section Two Transnational Poetics of Space Making

7 Before the Bricks and Mortar: The Grassroots Development of the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument

8 M is for Migrant: Scenes in Response to Three Questions and a Statement from M. Jacqui Alexander's Pedagogies of Crossing

9 She Balances the Border

10 Dionne Brand, Map-Maker

11 From Site to Sound and Film: Critical Black Canadian Memory Culture and Sylvia D. Hamilton's The Little Black School House

Section Three Strategizing Survival and Rethinking Colonial Ordering

12 We Were Here: Reclaiming African Canadian History Through Heritage Plaques

13 On the Aggrecultural Poetics of Sonnet's Shakespeare

14 Mobilizing the Bard: Joseph Pierre's Shakespeare's Nigga (2013)

15 Building Black and Indigenous Alliances for hiv Prevention and Health Promotion

16 Blood is a Politic of Place-Making: Blackness, Queerness, and the Construction of the Donor

Section Four Creation is Legacy: Creativity and Futures

17 The Story of Sister Vision: Black Women and Women of Colour Press.

18 Dub and the Right to Exist: An Interview with Lillian Allen

19 Dub Pedagogies: An Interview with d'bi.young anitafrika

20 Spoken Word: A Signifying Gesture Toward Possibility

21 wordsoundsystemsengineering: Meta-dub and Creation

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Cummings, Ronald Harriet's Legacies

ISBN:

9780228012191

0228012198

9780228012207

0228012201

OCLC:

1285373098