Unsettling the Great White North

Michele A. Johnson is a professor in the Department of History at York University.Funké Aladejebi is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.

"Under the stewardship of Johnson and Aladejebi, Unsettling the Great White North provides an important and necessary scholarly intervention that recognizes Black agency in Canadian history and will certainly serve as a guiding anthology for both classrooms and the public in how we think about Canada."- Cameron Tardif (American Review of Canadian Studies)

• PrefaceIntroduction Michele A. Johnson and Funké Aladejebi Bookend I: The Future Has a Past: Canadian History and Black Modernity1. Critical Histories of Blackness in CanadaBarrington WalkerSection One: Enslaving Blackness2. Planting Slavery in Nova Scotia’s Promised Land, 1759–1775Karolyn Smardz Frost 3. "Where, Oh Where, is Bet?": Locating Enslaved Black Women on the Ontario LandscapeNatasha Henry Section Two: Constructing Blackness across Borders and Boundaries4. A Forgotten Generation: African Canadian History between Fugitive Slaves and World War IAdam Arenson5. Petitioning Power: Canadian Racial Consciousness Meets Alabama Injustice, 1958Wendell Nii Laryea AdjeteySection Three: Building Black Communities and Shaping Black Resilience6. The Shiloh Baptist Church: The Pillar of Strength in Edmonton’s African American Community, 1910–1940David Este and Jenna Bailey 7. Establishing CommunitiesAmoaba Gooden 8. Montreal’s Black RenaissanceSean Mills Section Four: Controlling Black (Working) Bodies 9. "Likely to become a public charge": Examining Black Migration to Eastern Canada, 1900–1930Claudine Bonner10. "…not likely to do well or to be an asset to this country": Canadian Restrictions of Black Caribbean Female Domestic Workers, 1910–1955Michele A. JohnsonSection Five: "Schooling" Black Canadians 11. Stories from the Little Black School HouseSylvia D. Hamilton 12. Black Education: The Complexity of Segregation in Kent County’s Nineteenth-Century SchoolsDeirdre McCorkindale13. "We have to strive for the best": The High Aspirations of Black Caribbean-Canadian Youth of the 1970s and 1980sCarl E. James Section Six: Creating New Diasporic Communities: Continental African Experiences  14. Creating Spaces of Belonging: Building a New African Community in VancouverGillian Creese15. "The part of you that’s Rwanda": Creating a Rwandan Diaspora Community in the Greater Toronto Area in the Early Twenty-First CenturyAnna AinsworthSection 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 1900Cheryl Thompson and Julie Crooks 17. Hogan’s Alley Remixed: Wayde Compton’s Performance Bond and the New Black Can(aan)LitPaul Watkins 18. Jazz, Diaspora, and the History and Writing of Black Anglophone MontrealWinfried 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 Aladejebi20. Re-Thinking and Re-Framing RDS: A Black Woman’s PerspectiveEsmerelda M.A. ThornhillBookend II: The Past Has a Future: Critical Intellectual Histories of Blackness21. Wrestling with Multicultural Snake Oil: A Newcomer’s Introduction to Black CanadaDaniel McNeil