Harriet's legacies : race, historical memory, and futures in Canada / edited by Ronald Cummings and Natalee Caple.
"Historic freedom fighter and conductor of the Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman risked her life to ferry enslaved people from America to freedom in Canada. Her legacy instigates and orients this exploration of the history of Black lives and the future of collective struggle in Canada. Harrie...
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Carleton library series ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: On the non-linearity of legacy : Harriet Tubman and our current historical juncture
- Section one. On the legacies of radical mobility. The Cataract House Hotel : underground to Canada through the Niagara River borderlands
- A selection of "canticles" (meditations on slavery and imperialism)
- Radical legacies in Black nineteenth-century Canadian writing
- The miracle of Ann Maria Jackson, slave fugitive and heroine of the underground railroad
- Free Black North : photography and transnational identities in nineteenth-century southern Ontario
- Colour-phobia in Canada : William Wells Brown's cosmopolitan mobility
- Section two. Transnational poetics of space making. Before the bricks and mortar : the grassroots development of the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument
- M is migrant : scenes in response to three questions and a statement from M. Jacqui Alexander's Pedagogies of crossing
- She balances the border
- Dionne Brand, map-maker
- From site to sound and film : critical Black Canadian memory culture and Sylvia Hamilton's The little Black school house
- Section three. Strategizing survival and rethinking colonial ordering. We were here : reclaiming African Canadian history through heritage plaques
- On the aggrecultural poetics of Sonnet's Shakespeare
- Mobilizing the bard : Joseph Pierre's Shakespeare's nigga (2013)
- Building Black and Indigenous alliances for HIV prevention and health promotion
- Blood is a politic of place-making : Blackness, Queerness, and the construction of the donor
- Section four. Creation is legacy : creativity and futures. The story of sister vision : Black women and women of colour press - we had to fight, cuss, and kick every inch of the way
- Dub and the right to exist : an interview with Lillian Allen
- Dub pedagogies : an interview with d'bi.young anitafrika
- Spoken word : a signifying gesture toward possibility
- wordsoundsystemsengineering : meta-dub and creation.