Humanities

"Visualizing History and Memory in the African Nova Scotian Community" in Multiple Lenses: Voices from the Diaspora Located in Canada

Black Canadian Studies is the exploration of the range of histories, experiences, contributions, perceptions, feelings, convictions, triumphs, and obstacles awaiting to be overcome, of identified Black people of African descent resident in Canada. Black Canadian Studies revolves around the agency of Black people as the subject of investigation. Their stories, their interpretations, their pride, their […]

"Stories from The Little Black School House" in Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation Through the Lens of Cultural Diversity

"Searching for Portia White" in Rain/Drizzle/Fog: Film and Television in Atlantic Canada

This is an exciting new collection sure to create ripples throughout Canadian film studies … an important new addition to the literature on Canadian screen culture. - Zoë Druick, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University Rain/Drizzle/Fog : Film and Television in Atlantic Canada is the first scholarly study of film and television in Atlantic Canada. […]

"Surveillance as Social Regulation: Profiles and Profiling Technology" in Criminalization, Representation, Regulation: Thinking Differently About Crime, 251-284

What is a crime and how do we construct it? The answers to these questions are complex and entangled in a web of power relations that require us to think differently about processes of criminalization and regulation. This book draws on Foucault's concept of governmentality as a lens to analyze and critique how crime is […]

"A Daughter's Journey" in Canadian Woman Studies /l es cahiers de la femme, 23 (2)

Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness

In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the methods of policing black life under slavery, such as branding, runaway slave notices, […]

"Digital Epidermalization: Race, Identity and Biometrics" in Critical Sociology, 36 (1),131-150

Naturally Woman: The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women's Literature

Black Canadian women must constantly incorporate changes to their identities to face the challenges of living in a multicultural society. Naturally Woman: The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women’s Literature examines the ways in which Black immigrant women must adapt to survive in a multicultural country such as Canada without losing their sense of […]

Caribbean Literature In Transition, 1970-2020

The period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclaimed. Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020 traces the region''s contemporary writings across the established genres of prose, poetry, fiction and drama into emerging areas of creative non-fiction, memoir and speculative fiction […]

"Queer Formations and Horizons: Rethinking Queer Canadian Studies" in Journal of Canadian Studies, 54 (2-3), 213-227