14 Mobilizing the Bard: Joseph Pierre’s Shakespeare’s Nigga (2013)

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments and a Brief Note on Editorial Choice xi
5. On the Non-linearity of Legacy: Harriet Tubman and Our Current Historical Juncture 17
6. On the Legacies of Radical Mobility
7. The Cataract House Hotel: Underground to Canada through the Niagara River Borderlands 41
8. A Selection of “Canticles” (Meditations on Slavery and Imperialism) 80
9. Radical Legacies in Black Nineteenth-Century Canadian Writing 104
10. The Miracle of Ann Maria Jackson, Slave Fugitive and Heroine of the Underground Railroad 118
11. Free Black North: Photography and Transnational Identities in Nineteenth-Century Southern Ontario 141
12. Colour-Phobia in Canada: William Wells Brown’s Cosmopolitan Mobility 151
13. Transnational Poetics of Space Making
14. Before the Bricks and Mortar: The Grassroots Development of the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument 171
15. M is for Migrant: Scenes in Response to Three Questions and a Statement from M. Jacqui Alexander’s Pedagogies of Crossing 196
16. She Balances the Border 200
17. Dionne Brand, Map-Maker 204
18. From Site to Sound and Film: Critical Black Canadian Memory Culture and Sylvia D. Hamilton’s The Little Black School House 226
19. Strategizing Survival and Rethinking Colonial Ordering
20. We Were Here: Reclaiming African Canadian History Through Heritage Plaques 245
21. On the Aggrecultural Poetics of Sonnet’s Shakespeare 256
22. Mobilizing the Bard: Joseph Pierre’s Shakespeare’s Nigga (2013) 264
23. Building Black and Indigenous Alliances for HIV Prevention and Health Promotion 278
24. Blood is a Politic of Place-Making: Blackness, Queerness, and the Construction of the Donor 304
25. Creation is Legacy: Creativity and Futures
26. The Story of Sister Vision: Black Women and Women of Colour Press 323
27. Dub and the Right to Exist: An Interview with Lillian Allen 344
28. Dub Pedagogies: An Interview with d’bi.young anitafrika 357
29. Spoken Word: A Signifying Gesture Toward Possibility 372
30. wordsoundsystemsengineering: Meta-dub and Creation 392
31. Contributors 409
32. Index 417