Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Redacted Text, 2019: Statement from the Artist ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Bookend I. The Future Has a Past: Canadian History and Black Modernity
6. 1. Critical Histories of Blackness in Canada 31
7. Section One. Enslaving Blackness
8. 2. Planting Slavery in Nova Scotia’s Promised Land, 1759–1775 53
9. 3. Where, Oh Where, Is Bet? Locating Enslaved Black Women on the Ontario Landscape 85
10. Appendix A. Listing of Black People Enslaved in Belleville, Ontario 105
11. Section Two. Constructing Blackness across Borders and Boundaries
12. 4. A Forgotten Generation: African Canadian History between Fugitive Slaves and World War I 115
13. 5. Petitioning Power: Canadian Racial Consciousness Meets Alabama Injustice, 1958 140
14. Section Three. Building Black Communities and Shaping Black Resilience
15. 6. The Shiloh Baptist Church: The Pillar of Strength in Edmonton’s African American Community 169
16. 7. Establishing Communities 194
17. 8. Montreal’s Black Renaissance 222
18. Section Four. Controlling Black (Working) Bodies
19. 9. “Likely to become a public charge”: Examining Black Migration to Eastern Canada, 1900–1930 257
20. 10. “… not likely to do well or to be an asset to this country”: Canadian Restrictions of Black Caribbean Female Domestic Workers, 1910–1955 280
21. Section Five. “Schooling” Black Canadians
22. 11. Stories from The Little Black School House 313
23. 12. Black Education: The Complexity of Segregation in Kent County’s Nineteenth-Century Schools 333
24. 13. “We have to strive for the best”: The High Aspirations of Black Caribbean Canadian Youth of the 1970s and 1980s 357
25. Section Six. Creating New Diasporic Communities: Continental African Experiences
26. 14. Creating Spaces of Belonging: Building a New African Community in Vancouver 383
27. 15. “The part of you that’s Rwanda”: Creating a Rwandan Diaspora Community in the Greater Toronto Area in the Early Twenty-First Century 402
28. Section Seven. Locating Historical Black Presences in Cultural Artefacts
29. 16. Race, Community, and the Picturing of Identities: Photography and the Black Subject in Ontario, 1860–1900 433
30. 17. Hogan’s Alley Remixed: Wayde Compton’s Performance Bond and the New Black Can(aan) Lit 455
31. 18. Jazz, Diaspora, and the History and Writing of Black Anglophone Montreal 488
32. 19. “I don’t know if I should say this”: Black Women, Oral History, and Contesting the Great White North 513
33. 20. Re-thinking and Re-framing RDS: A Black Woman’s Perspective 538
34. Bookend II. The Past Has a Future: Critical Intellectual Histories of Blackness
35. 21. Wrestling with Multicultural Snake Oil: A Newcomer’s Introduction to Black Canada 585
36. Contributors 611