Unsettling the Great White North : Black Canadian History / edited by Michele A. Johnson and Funké Aladejebi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson, Michele A., editor.

Aladejebi, Funké, 1983- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Social conditions.

Black people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (627 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2022]

Summary:

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.

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

Contributors

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Johnson, Michele A. Unsettling the Great White North

ISBN:

1-4875-2919-8

1-4875-2918-X

OCLC:

1268266668