Preface
Introduction
Michele A. Johnson and Funké Aladejebi
Bookend I: The Future Has a Past: Canadian History and Black Modernity
1. Critical Histories of Blackness in Canada
Barrington Walker
Section One: Enslaving Blackness
2. Planting Slavery in Nova Scotia’s Promised Land, 1759–1775
Karolyn Smardz Frost
3. “Where, Oh Where, is Bet?”: Locating Enslaved Black Women on the Ontario Landscape
Natasha Henry
Section Two: Constructing Blackness across Borders and Boundaries
4. A Forgotten Generation: African Canadian History between Fugitive Slaves and World War I
Adam Arenson
5. Petitioning Power: Canadian Racial Consciousness Meets Alabama Injustice, 1958
Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey
Section Three: Building Black Communities and Shaping Black Resilience
6. The Shiloh Baptist Church: The Pillar of Strength in Edmonton’s African American Community, 1910–1940
David Este and Jenna Bailey
7. Establishing Communities
Amoaba Gooden
8. Montreal’s Black Renaissance
Sean Mills
Section Four: Controlling Black (Working) Bodies
9. “Likely to become a public charge”: Examining Black Migration to Eastern Canada, 1900–1930
Claudine Bonner
10. “…not likely to do well or to be an asset to this country”: Canadian Restrictions of Black Caribbean Female Domestic Workers, 1910–1955
Michele A. Johnson
Section Five: “Schooling” Black Canadians
11. Stories from the Little Black School House
Sylvia D. Hamilton
12. Black Education: The Complexity of Segregation in Kent County’s Nineteenth-Century Schools
Deirdre McCorkindale
13. “We have to strive for the best”: The High Aspirations of Black Caribbean-Canadian Youth of the 1970s and 1980s
Carl E. James
Section Six: Creating New Diasporic Communities: Continental African Experiences
14. Creating Spaces of Belonging: Building a New African Community in Vancouver
Gillian Creese
15. “The part of you that’s Rwanda”: Creating a Rwandan Diaspora Community in the Greater Toronto Area in the Early Twenty-First Century
Anna Ainsworth
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 to 1900
Cheryl Thompson and Julie Crooks
17. Hogan’s Alley Remixed: Wayde Compton’s Performance Bond and the New Black Can(aan)Lit
Paul Watkins
18. Jazz, Diaspora, and the History and Writing of Black Anglophone Montreal
Winfried Siemerling
Section Eight: Black Women’s Orality and Knowings
19. “I Don’t Know if I Should Say This”: Black Women, Oral History, and Contesting the Great White North
Funké Aladejebi
20. Re-Thinking and Re-Framing RDS: A Black Woman’s Perspective
Esmerelda M.A. Thornhill
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
Daniel McNeil
