Unsettling the Great White North : Black Canadian History
Record details
- ISBN: 9781487529185
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (632 p.) : 3 b&w illustrations, 8 b&w tables
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Computer data. - Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
General Note: | CatMonthString:january.23 Multi-User. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 |
Restrictions on Access Note: | restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization |
Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. Mode of access: Internet. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted through purchase. |
Language Note: | In English. |
Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by publisher. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) |