Research Catalog

Title

Multiple lenses : voices from the diaspora located in Canada / edited by David Divine.

Publication

Newcastle : Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Dalhousie University
• Divine, David

Description

xviii, 459 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

• African diaspora
• Black people > Canada > History
• Black people > Canada > Intellectual life
• Black people > Canada > Race identity
• Black people > Canada > Social conditions
• Black people > Race identity > Canada
• Canada > Ethnic relations
• Canada > Intellectual life
• Canada > Social policy
• Ethnopsychology > Canada
• Group identity > Canada > Cross-cultural studies
• Human geography > Canada

Genre/Form

• Cross-cultural studies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Approaching African-Canadian history / James Walker -- Unsilencing the past : memorializing four hundred years of African Canadian history / Afua Cooper -- The gift from one generation to another / Ian E. Wilson -- African Canadians in Alberta : connecting the past with the present / David Este and Wek Mamer Kuol -- Towards a methodology for reading hip hop in Canada / Rinaldo Walcott -- Springboarding a national HIV / AIDS strategy for Black Canadian, African and Caribbean communities / Dionne Falconer -- The lost history of the Coloured Hockey League of the Maritimes : 1895-1925 / George R. Fosty -- Forgotten, ignored and exploited : how the shameful treatment of Blacks throughout Canada's history haunts us still / Donald H. Oliver -- The spirituality of African peoples in Canada and beyond / Peter J. Paris -- Old roots, new shoots / Michael AbdurRashid Taylor -- Spirituality and the Black community : bridging the gap / Barbara Ann Simmons -- Religion, spirituality and migration in Canada / Carol B. Duncan -- A journey to multiple sites of memory to find and locate the Black self in the New World African and British diasporas / Yvonne Brown -- Media : Black and White / Mairuth Sarsfield -- Black print : Sankofa in Canada / Dorothy Williams -- The underground railroad and the creation of public memory / Karolyn Smardz Frost -- Four Black documentary moments / Leslie Sanders -- Blacks in Western Canada : a filmmaker's perspective / Selwyn Jacob -- Visualizing history and memory in the African Nova Scotian community / Sylvia Hamilton -- Film : a personal perspective / Anthony Sherwood -- Introducing a distinct genre of African-Canadian literature : the church narrative / George Elliott Clarke -- A feminist exploration in African Canadian literature / Andrea Davis.
• Nova Scotia AIDS/HIV Black communities initiative / David Divine -- Hogan's Alley : mapping Vancouver's lost Black neighbourhood / Wayde Compton -- Racializing crime : challenging notions of a Black Canadian identity / Terry Roswell and Beverly Folkes -- The significance and necessity of organizations such as The Ontario Black History Society / Rosemary Sadlier -- Black business in Quebec : the spirit of entrepreneurship and small business solutions to Black unemployment / Clarence S. Bayne -- Judicial recognition and remediation of radical profiling by Canadian courts / Corinne Sparks -- Human rights at work, legal indeterminacy, and the Black community in Canada : critical reflections on Centre Maraîcher Eugène Guinois / Adelle Blackett -- Critical comments on the presence of Black in Canada's legal community / Daniel Dortélus -- Sisyphus's ongoing journey : anti-Black racism and the myth of racial equality in Canada -- Key issues in the education of Black students : an historical perspective / Avis E. Glaze -- From Mattheu Dacosta to Michaëlle Jean : the originators / Cecil Foster -- Speculations on the visual : culture, race and diaspora / Charmaine Nelson -- Outcome of exploratory interviews pertaining to the student support worker role in Chignecto-Central Regional School Board / David Divine.

ISBN

• 9781847181107 (hbk.)
• 1847181104 (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2008378327

OCLC

85898397

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library