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Jade Ferguson

"Discounting Slavery: The Currency Wars, Minstrelsy, and 'The White Nigger' in Thomas Chandler Haliburton's The Clockmaker" in Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada-US Border.

The essays collected in Parallel Encounters offer close analysis of an array of cultural representations of the Canada–US border, in both site-specificity and in the ways in which they reveal and conceal cultural similarities and differences. Contributors focus on a range of regional sites along the border and examine a rich variety of expressive forms, […]

"'This is our Alabama': Racial Segregation, Discrimination, and Violence in Tamio Wakayama's Signs of Life" in The Global South, 9 (1), 124-146

This essay examines the civil rights photography of TamioWakayama. In 1963, Wakayama, a twenty-year-old Japanese Canadian philosophy student, left the University ofWestern Ontario and joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). A self-taught photographer, he shot pictures of SNCC's grassroots organizing activities in Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama.   In this essay, I argue that Wakayama's representations […]