Women in the “Promised Land” places African Canadian women’s lived experiences, identities, and histories at the centre of Canada’s past. This collection of original research edited by leading scholars in the field encourages readers to interrogate the idea of Canada as a “Promised Land” by examining the rich and varied history of African Canadian women. Spanning slavery in the early 1830’s through to activism of the late twentieth century, this interdisciplinary collection draws on existing research from cultural studies, literary studies, communications, and visual culture to reframe familiar figures in African Canadian women’s history, such as feminist Mary Ann Shadd and civil rights activist Viola Desmond, in the wider African diaspora. This invaluable text sheds light on questions of the past, present, and future in the field, and is best suited for undergraduate courses in women’s studies, African studies, sociology, and history.
FEATURES
contains interdisciplinary, accessible, and original work that examines African Canadian women’s history through a visual culture lens
includes chapter abstracts, questions for discussion, and a bibliographic appendix
encourages readers to make connections between African Canadian women’s history and emerging scholarship on race, indigeneity, and queer histories
Chapter 1: Calling to Her Brethren: Immigration, Race and Female Representation in the Life and Writings of Mary Ann Shadd, by Cary Nassisse Solomon
Chapter 2: “servant, seraglio, savage or ‘Sarah’ ”: Examining the Visual Representation of Black Female Subjects in Canadian Art and Visual Culture, by Charmaine Nelson
Chapter 3: Women and Children First: The Role of Black Women and Children in Southwestern Ontario’s Temperance Movement, 1840-1899, by Lorene Bridgen-Lennie
Chapter 4:African Baptist Women Organize: The Women at the Well, by Sylvia Hamilton
Chapter 5: Intellectual History and the Visual Archive: Reading Photographs of the Reverend Jennie Johnson (1868-1967), by Nina Reid-Maroney
Chapter 6: “The Splendid Work Our Women Have Done”: African-Canadian Women in the Universal Negro Improvement Association, by Carla Marano
Chapter 7: Labouring for Change: Narratives of African Nova Scotian Women, 1919 – 1990, by Claudine Bonner and Wanda Thomas Bernard
Chapter 8: Unsuitable to become Canadian: Change and Continuity in Racial Discourse in Canadian Political Consciousness A Mari Usque Ad Mare, 1850-1965, by Boulou Ebanda de B’béri and Dana Whitney Sherwood
Chapter 9: Mary Ann Shadd and the Canadian Political Imaginary: Citizenship and Experience in 19th-Century Canada West, by Emilie-Andrée Jabouin
Appendix: Indigenous/African Colonization in Canada and Beyond: Suggestions for Further Readings
Selected Bibliography
Contributor Biographies
Index
Biography
Nina Reid-Maroney is an Associate Professor and Chair of Historyrat Huron University College.
Boulou Ebanda de B’béri is a Full Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa.
Wanda Thomas Bernard is a Professor Emeritus of social work at Dalhousie University and a Canadian Senator.
“Guided by the adage ‘the half has never been told,’ the editors and contributors have combed the field of Black women’s history and have presented to us a collection that is rich and textured.… The research for this collection is remarkable, the analyses coherent, and the individual stories fundamental. Women in the ‘Promised Land’ is a welcome addition to the study of Black women’s history. The editors must be commended for having the vision to make this outstanding work come to light.”
—Afua Cooper, James R. Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies, cross-appointed to the departments of History, Sociology and Social Anthropology, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Canadian Studies, Dalhousie University
“We have all been waiting for quite some time for this dynamic collection of new essays in African Canadian women’s history. Broaching topics such as slavery and visual culture, temperance, labour, and civic leadership, this book makes a key contribution to African Canadian history. It will surely attract a robust general audience.”
—Barrington Walker, Department of History, Queen’s University
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