Preface

Introduction
Michele A. Johnson and Funké Aladejebi

Bookend I: The Future Has a Past: Canadian History and Black Modernity

1. Critical Histories of Blackness in Canada
Barrington Walker

Section One: Enslaving Blackness

2. Planting Slavery in Nova Scotia’s Promised Land, 1759-1775
Karolyn Smardz Frost

3. "Where, Oh Where, is Bet?": Locating Enslaved Black Women on the Ontario Landscape
Natasha Henry

Section Two: Constructing Blackness across Borders and Boundaries

4. A Forgotten Generation: African Canadian History between Fugitive Slaves and World War I
Adam Arenson

5. Petitioning Power: Canadian Racial Consciousness Meets Alabama Injustice, 1958
Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey

Section Three: Building Black Communities and Shaping Black Resilience

6. The Shiloh Baptist Church: The Pillar of Strength in Edmonton’s African American Community, 1910-1940
David Este and Jenna Bailey

7. Establishing Communities
Amoaba Gooden

8. Montreal’s Black Renaissance
Sean Mills

Section Four: Controlling Black (Working) Bodies

9. "Likely to become a public charge": Examining Black Migration to Eastern Canada, 1900-1930
Claudine Bonner

10. "...not likely to do well or to be an asset to this country": Canadian Restrictions of Black Caribbean Female Domestic Workers, 1910-1955
Michele A. Johnson

Section Five: "Schooling" Black Canadians

11. Stories from the Little Black School House
Sylvia D. Hamilton

12. Black Education: The Complexity of Segregation in Kent County’s Nineteenth-Century Schools
Deirdre McCorkindale

13. "We have to strive for the best": The High Aspirations of Black Caribbean-Canadian Youth of the 1970s and 1980s
Carl E. James

Section Six: Creating New Diasporic Communities: Continental African Experiences

14. Creating Spaces of Belonging: Building a New African Community in Vancouver
Gillian Creese

15. "The part of you that’s Rwanda": Creating a Rwandan Diaspora Community in the Greater Toronto Area in the Early Twenty-First Century
Anna Ainsworth

Section 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 1900
Cheryl Thompson and Julie Crooks

17. Hogan’s Alley Remixed: Wayde Compton’s Performance Bond and the New Black Can(aan)Lit
Paul Watkins

18. Jazz, Diaspora, and the History and Writing of Black Anglophone Montreal
Winfried 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 Aladejebi

20. Re-Thinking and Re-Framing RDS: A Black Woman’s Perspective
Esmerelda M.A. Thornhill

Bookend II: The Past Has a Future: Critical Intellectual Histories of Blackness

21. Wrestling with Multicultural Snake Oil: A Newcomer’s Introduction to Black Canada
Daniel McNeil