Black Press

Claudine Bonner is the Canada Research Chair in Racial Justice and African Diaspora Migration and an associate professor of sociology at Mount Allison University.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.

“The Black Press makes a bold and direct intervention into Black Canadian intellectual history by daring us to imagine the vibrant legacy of Black Canadian print culture and its continued impact on Black Canadian life and politics. This work will absolutely transform our understanding of Black Canada.” - Kristin Moriah , Associate Professor of African American Literary Studies, Queen's University “The Black Press is a wonderfully comprehensive primer on the existence and development of Black Canadian print media. Well-researched and replete with engaging stories and characters, this timely collection is not only foundational, it generously presents a blueprint for future exploration in this long ignored field of study.” - Sylvia D. Hamilton, C.M., O.N.S., 2019 Governor General's History Award for Popular Media, Inglis Professor Emeritus, University of King's College

• AcknowledgementsAn Introduction to The Black Press: A Shadowed Canadian TraditionClaudine Bonner, Boulou Ebanda de B’béri, Nina Reid-Maroney Part One: The Black Press and the Abolitionist Context1. An Education without Walls: The Voice of the Fugitive and the Provincial Freeman as an Unconventional ClassroomLorene Bridgen-Lennie2. The Black Press and The Voice of the BondsmanNeil Brooks, Nina Reid-Maroney, Scott SchofieldPart Two: Reconstructing the Black Press, 1870–19003. As Seen in the News: Representations of Blackness in the Mainstream Nova Scotian Newspapers, 1867–1910Claudine Bonner4. Georgiana Whetsel and the Case for Nineteenth-Century Black New Brunswick Newspaper CultureJennifer Harris5. “Read. Important.” Anderson Ruffin Abbott’s Missionary Messenger ScrapbooksNina Reid-MaroneyPart Three: Representation and Activism in the Twentieth Century6. “You Will Do the Race and Yourselves Much Good”: The Black Athlete and Sport Discourse in The Clarion (1946–1949) Ornella Nzindukiyimana7. Brand Advertising in Contrast in the 1970s: Selling Race and Culture Through BeerCheryl ThompsonList of ContributorsIndex