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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
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