Black Canadian Studies

Black Canadian studies is a very rich area of scholarly inquiry. Black Canadians have made immeasurable contributions to the social, political, econmic and cultural life of Canada from its inception. Afro-Canadians as they are called consist of Blacks from the Caribbean and Africa and African Americans in Canada and their descendants, including Black Nova Scotians. See our earlier informational blog on Black Canadians here. Below please find resources of Black Canadian Studies.

*Objectives of the BCSA ​(Français suit)

• Encourage and support research, publication, teaching, and understanding of diverse Black communities in Canada and the Diaspora.

• Create an institutional infrastructure of Black Canadian Studies in Canada, to support and facilitate interaction and exchange and networking between scholars, community historians and cultural workers of Black Studies here in Canada and abroad.

• Provide support for Black Canadian Studies scholars, academics, community historians and culture (and those of Black descent regardless of research interests and foci), and to actively encourage and support subsequent generations of scholars, researchers, community historians and cultural workers.

• Encourage the collection, documentation and preservation of a material culture relevant to the study of Blacks in Canada, to encourage a reassessment and activation of existing material cultural collections (or parts thereof) as relevant to Black Canadian Studies.
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• Foster collective action and to challenge the Eurocentrism of Canadian Studies, and to demonstrate the historical and ongoing relevance of Black populations and experiences in Canada.

Objectifs de la BCSA

• Encourager et soutenir la recherche, la publication, l'enseignement et la compréhension des diverses communautés noires au Canada et dans la diaspora.

• Créer une infrastructure institutionnelle d'études noires canadiennes au pays, afin de soutenir et de faciliter l’interaction, l’échange et le développement d’un réseau regroupant les universitaires, les historiens communautaires et les travailleurs culturels impliqués dans les études noires au Canada et à l'étranger.

• Soutenir les universitaires, les chercheurs, les historiens communautaires et les travailleurs culturels dans le domaine des études sur les Noirs canadiens (et les personnes d'ascendance noire, quels que soient leurs intérêts académiques et leurs domaines de recherche), et encourager et soutenir activement les futures générations d'universitaires, de chercheurs, d'historiens communautaires et de travailleurs culturels.

• Encourager la collecte, la documentation et la préservation d'une culture matérielle pertinente pour les études noires au Canada, afin d'encourager la réévaluation et l'activation des collections culturelles matérielles existantes (ou des parties de celles-ci) en rapport avec les études noires au Canada.

• Encourager l'action collective et remettre en question l’eurocentrisme des études canadiennes, et démontrer la pertinence historique et continue des populations et des expériences noires au Canada.

*BCSA - Home (blackcanadianstudiesassociation.ca)

NOTE--This informational blog is compiled by (with the exception of the introduction and photograph) and reprinted with permission from Abdul Akalimat, PhD

McMaster University https://abld.humanities.mcmaster.ca/event/black-futurities-reimagining-black-studies-in-canada/

Underground Railroad Emancipation Day Sir George Williams Affair National Higher Education Provinces

Underground Railroad https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/underground-railroad https://www.cbc.ca/history/EPCONTENTSE1EP8CH1PA3LE.html

https://pier21.ca/research/immigration-history/immigration-from-united-states-on-underground-railroad

Emancipation Day https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/emancipation-day.html

Sir George Williams Affair https://www.nfb.ca/film/ninth_floor/

National

Black Canadian Studies Association https://www.blackcanadianstudiesassociation.ca/

New Government classification of Black Studies https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/subjects/standard/crdc/notice/crdc-03

A Black People's History of Canada https://www.blackpeopleshistory.ca/

Organizations https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/black-history-month/resources.html#a2

Black Canadians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Canadians

Black History in Canada https://fb.historicacanada.ca/education/english/black-history-in-canada/

Canadian Museum for Human Rights https://humanrights.ca/story/story-black-slavery-canadian-history

New Dawn: Journal of Black Canadian Studies (2006-07) https://journals.scholarsportal.info/browse/17154081

Black History Month https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/black-history-month.html

Journal articles https://utpjournals.press/action/doSearch?AllField=black+studies&ConceptID=

David Austin https://www.theblackscholar.org/nations-and-negres-an-interview-with-david-austin/ https://www.yorku.ca/laps/aabr-publication-author/david-austin/

Higher education

Dalhousie University https://www.dal.ca/academics/programs/undergraduate/black-african-diaspora.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T6L-q4W5mY https://www.dal.ca/news/2022/01/26/james-r--johnston-chair-25-years.html

Queen's University https://www.queensu.ca/gnds/undergraduate/black-studies https://www.queensu.ca/gnds/katherine-mckittrick-named-tier-1-canada-research-chair-black-studies

McMaster University https://abld.humanities.mcmaster.ca/

Niagara University https://www.niagara.edu/africana-black-studies/

St. Francis Xavier University https://www.stfx.ca/student-services/support-services/human-rights-equity/learning-hub/african-nova-scotian-learning

Toronto Metropolitan University https://www.torontomu.ca/black-studies/

University of Alberta https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2024/03/new-online-course-highlights-vital-presence-of-black-canadians.html

University of Guelph https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/blck https://news.uoguelph.ca/2021/11/u-of-g-launching-new-black-canadian-studies-program/

University of Toronto https://brn.utoronto.ca/category/black-studies/ https://www.utoronto.ca/news/uncovering-untold-stories-u-t-course-explores-black-canadian-history

University of Victoria https://www.uvic.ca/news/topics/2023+teaching-black-history+news

University of Waterloo https://uwaterloo.ca/arts/undergraduate/majors-and-minors/academic-programming-black-studies https://uwaterloo.ca/news/bridging-black-building-connections-black-flourishing

University of Windsor https://www.uwindsor.ca/blackstudies/303/black-studies-institute https://windsornewstoday.ca/windsor/news/2024/05/06/uofw-renames-black-studies-institute-appoints-director

Western University https://www.uwo.ca/gsws//undergraduate/programs/minor_black_studies.html

Western Washington University https://canam.wwu.edu/

York University https://www.yorku.ca/laps/huma/bcs/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8rkxNMDgZE

Provinces

Alberta https://royalalbertamuseum.ca/blog/black-history-alberta https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/perspectives-global-african-history/quest-land-and-freedom-canadas-western-prairies-black-oklahomans-alberta-and-saskatchew/

Nova Scotia https://www.stfx.ca/student-services/support-services/human-rights-equity/diversity-engagement-centre/black-student-advising/black-nova-scotia https://bccns.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guqYkyDYiYI

Ontario https://www.destinationontario.com/en-ca/articles/rediscover-black-history-ontario https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/black-history-learning-ontario-1.7108829

Black History Ottawa https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/black-history-month/resources.html#a2

Black Cultural Center https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1004168/ontario-introducing-mandatory-black-history-learning

Amherstburg Freedom Museum https://amherstburgfreedom.org/

Sandwich First Baptist Church https://www.visitwindsoressex.com/places/sandwich-first-baptist-church/