Promised Land

History and Historiography of the Black Experience in Chatham-Kent's Settlements and Beyond

AvBoulou Ebanda de b'Beri,Nina Reid-Maroney

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

Eschewing the often romanticized Underground Railroad narrative that portrays southern Ontario as the welcoming destination of Blacks fleeing from slavery, The Promised Land reveals the Chatham-Kent area as a crucial settlement site for an early Black presence in Canada. The contributors present the everyday lives and professional activities of individuals and families in these communities and highlight early cross-border activism to end slavery in the United States and to promote civil rights in the United States and Canada. Essays also reflect on the frequent intermingling of local Black, White, and First Nations people. Using a cultural studies framework for their collective investigations, the authors trace physical and intellectual trajectories of Blackness that have radiated from southern Ontario to other parts of Canada, the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa. The result is a collection that represents the presence and diffusion of Blackness and inventively challenges the grand narrative of history.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-06-17
Mått:154 x 231 x 17 mm
Vikt:380 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:African & Diasporic Cultural Studies
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781442615335
Utmärkelser:Short-listed for Speaker's Book Award awarded by Legislative Assembly of Ontario 2014 (Canada)

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Boulou Ebanda de b’BÉri is a professor of Communication and Cultural Studies and the founding director of the Audiovisual Media Lab for the study of Cultures and Societies at the University of Ottawa. Nina Reid-Maroney is a professor of history at Huron University College at the University of Western Ontario and co-director of the Huron Community History Centre.Handel K. Wright is the inaugural senior advisor to the president on anti-racism and inclusive excellence; the director of the Centre for Culture, Identity, and Education; and a professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia.

Recensioner i media

‘This book is brilliant compilation of in-depth exciting, informative, and interdisciplinary scholarship that explores the history of Chatham-Kent.’- Karen Flynn (The Michigan Historical Review vol 41:02:2015)

Innehållsförteckning

Part I: Introducing the Promised Land Project1. The Politics of Knowledge: The Promised Land Project and Black Canadian History as a Model of Historical “Manufacturation”? (Boulou Ebanda de B’bÉri)2. Multiculturality Before Multiculturalism: Troubling Black Identity and History Beyond the Last Stop on the Underground Railroad (Handel Kashope Wright)3. History, Historiography and the Promised Land Project (Nina Reid-Maroney)Part II: From Fragments through Biography to History4. William Whipper’s Lands along the Sydenham (Marie Carter)5. Mae Alexander: Daughter of Promise (Claudine Bonner)6. “A Contented Mind Is a Continual Feast”: Tracing Intellectual Migrations through the Promised Land (Nina Reid-Maroney)Part III: Transgeographical Trajectories and Identity Formation beyond the Underground Railroad7. Resisting Imperial Governance in Canada: From Trade and Religious Kinship to Black Narrative Pedagogy in Ontario (Olivette Otele)8. African-American Abolitionist and Kinship Connections in Nineteenth-Century Delaware, Canada West, and Liberia (Peter T. Dalleo)9. Reimagining the Dawn Settlement (Marie Carter)Epilogue. Reflections: The Challenges and Accomplishments of the Promised Land (Afua Cooper)BibliographyIndex