What are the fundamental tenets of African-Canadian feminism? What are the elements of feminist theory that have contributed to African-Canadian feminist thought? African-American feminists have influenced thinking and writing in Canada. As well, Black-Canadian feminists have published on a wide range of issues relating to Black women’s lives, history and experience. Back to the Drawing Board builds on this existing literature and maps out a new space in which to articulate a stronger vision of African-Canadian feminism. While the essays focus on key concepts and debates that underlie Black feminist theory and challenge the dominant structures that continue to exclude Black women, the objective is to bring the plurality of African-Canadian women’s voices and experiences into the centre of analysis.
Chapter Four: Black Women and Work in Nineteenth-Century Canada West: Black Woman Teacher Mary Bibb – Afua Cooper
Part II: Education and Activism
Chapter Five: Black Women in Graduate Studies: Transforming the Socialization Experience – Dolana Magoadime
Chapter Six: Reconceptualizing Our Classroom Practice: Notes from an Anti-Racist Educator – Grace Mathieson
Chapter Seven: Carving Out Critical Space: African-Canadian Women and the Academy – Njoki Nathani Wane
Part III: The Social Gaze
Chapter Eight: Images in Black: Black Women, Media and the Mythology of an Orderly Society – Erica Lawson
Chapter Nine: Spirit-Murdering the Messenger: The Discourse of Fingerpointing as the Law’s Response to Racism – Patricia J. Williams
Chapter Ten: Transgressive Whiteness: The Social Construction of White Women Involved in Interracial Relationships with Black Men – Katerina Deliovsky
Chapter Eleven: Brief Reflections toward a Multiplicative Theory and Praxis of Being – Adrien Katherine Wing
Part IV: Indigenous Connections
Chapter Twelve: African Women and Spirituality: Harmonizing the Balance of Life – Njoki Nathani Wane
Chapter Thirteen: Living Well within the Context of Indigenous Education – Brenda Firman
Chapter Fourteen: Reclaiming Identity: Native Wombyn’s Reflections on Wombma-Based Knowledge and Spirituality – Barbara Waterfall
Bibliography
Contributors
Biography
Njoki N. Wane, PhD (she/her), is a Professor at the University of Toronto and former Chair of the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) from 2018 to 2024. A respected educator and scholar, she led the Office of Teaching Support at OISE from 2009 to 2012, placing equity at the centre of effective teaching. From 2011 to 2014, she served as Special Advisor on Status of Women Issues, focusing on the intersectionality of gender with race, disability, sexual orientation, and Indigenous identity. She also directed the Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies (CIARS) from 2006 to 2014. Professor Wane is widely recognized for her work in Black feminisms in Canada and Africa, African Indigenous knowledges, anti-colonial and decolonizing education, and African women and spirituality. She has authored or edited 22 books, 59 book chapters, and 35 peer-reviewed journal articles, and has presented at over 300 conferences. She has supervised 61 PhD and 44 Master’s students and served as external examiner for 15 PhD dissertations. Her excellence in teaching and mentorship has earned her numerous awards, including the Harry Jerome Professional Excellence Award, the David E. Hunt Award, the President of Toronto Teaching Award, and many more. She is a prolific and influential voice in education and social justice.
Katerina Deliovsky is Assistant Professor at Brock University.
Erica Lawson is Assistant Professor at Western University.
“Feminists of all colours and cultures have been waiting a long time for this book.”
– Rosemary Brown
“Back to the Drawing Board is a refreshing breakthrough. The essays are intellectually engaging and offer a critical discursive space for grounding the politics and desires of Black feminisms. As the reader will quickly come to note, Canadian scholars have much to offer by way of sustaining critical feminist practice across transnational contexts and spaces. It is an important read for all of us.”— George J. Sefa Dei, Sociology and Equity Studies, OISE/University of Toronto
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