Putting Black Lives Matter into Canadian Literary Studies

Camille Isaacs; Karina Vernon

Special Section: Black Lives Matter

Vol. 47 No. 2 (2022): Special Section: Black Lives Matter

Putting Black Lives Matter into Canadian Literary Studies

Camille Isaacs^▸^▾
Karina Vernon^▸^▾

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Submitted: November 7, 2023
Published: 2023-11-16

References

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Becken, Bob. “‘Defund the Police’ Calls in Canada Began in 2020: Today, Budgets Continue to Climb.” CBC Radio, 12 Feb. 2023, www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/defund-police-2023-budgets-grow-1.6741711.
Bell, John. “Before Black Lives Matter: Black Action Defence Committee.” Socialist.ca: International Socialists, 27 Feb. 2022, www.socialist.ca/node/4507.
Black Canadian Studies Association. “Update and Statement from the BCSA Regarding Anti-Blackness and Racial Profiling at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.” 7 June 2019. blackcanadianstudiesassociation.ca/statements.html.
Brand, Dionne. “On Narrative, Reckoning, and the Calculus of Living and Dying.” Toronto Star, 4 July 2020, www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2020/07/04/dionne-brand-on-narrative-reckoning-and-the-calculus-of-living-and-dying.html.
Brand, Dionne. Bread Out of Stone. Vintage Canada, 1994.
Brand, Dionne. Thirsty. McClelland and Stewart, 2002.
Brand, Dionne, and Lois de Shield. No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario, 1920s-1950s. Women’s Press, 1991.
Clarke, Austin. More: A Novel. Thomas Allen Publishers, 2008.
Cole, Desmond. The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power. Penguin Doubleday, 2020.
Compton, Wayde. “Three Riots.” Studies in Canadian Literature, vol. 47, no. 2, 2022.
Drew, Benjamin. A North-Side View of Slavery: The Refugee: Or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Related by Themselves, with an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada. J.P. Jewett, 1856.
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Jones, El. “Destruction: A Love Poem.” Abolitionist Intimacies, Fernwood Publishing, 2022, p. x.
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King, Tiffany Lethabo. The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies. Duke UP, 2019.
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How to Cite

Isaacs, C., & Vernon, K. (2023). Putting Black Lives Matter into Canadian Literary Studies. Studies in Canadian Literature, 47(2), 6–21. Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/33672

Copyright Notice

[1] Allen, Lillian. “Riddim an’ Hard Times.” Women Do This Every Day, Women’s Press, 1993, pp. 63-64.

[2] Becken, Bob. “‘Defund the Police’ Calls in Canada Began in 2020: Today, Budgets Continue to Climb.” CBC Radio, 12 Feb. 2023, www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/defund-police-2023-budgets-grow-1.6741711.

[3] Bell, John. “Before Black Lives Matter: Black Action Defence Committee.” Socialist.ca: International Socialists, 27 Feb. 2022, www.socialist.ca/node/4507.

[4] Black Canadian Studies Association. “Update and Statement from the BCSA Regarding Anti-Blackness and Racial Profiling at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.” 7 June 2019. blackcanadianstudiesassociation.ca/statements.html.

[5] Brand, Dionne. “On Narrative, Reckoning, and the Calculus of Living and Dying.” Toronto Star, 4 July 2020, www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2020/07/04/dionne-brand-on-narrative-reckoning-and-the-calculus-of-living-and-dying.html.

[6] Brand, Dionne. Bread Out of Stone. Vintage Canada, 1994.

[7] Brand, Dionne. Thirsty. McClelland and Stewart, 2002.

[8] Brand, Dionne, and Lois de Shield. No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario, 1920s-1950s. Women’s Press, 1991.

[9] Clarke, Austin. More: A Novel. Thomas Allen Publishers, 2008.

[10] Cole, Desmond. The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power. Penguin Doubleday, 2020.

[11] Compton, Wayde. “Three Riots.” Studies in Canadian Literature, vol. 47, no. 2, 2022.

[12] Drew, Benjamin. A North-Side View of Slavery: The Refugee: Or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Related by Themselves, with an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada. J.P. Jewett, 1856.

[13] Garden, Bailey. “The Tragic Death of Longshoreman Clarence Clemons.” BC Labour Heritage Centre, 18 Feb. 2020, www.labourheritagecentre.ca/the-tragic-death-of-longshoreman-clarence-clemons/.

[14] Jones, El. “Destruction: A Love Poem.” Abolitionist Intimacies, Fernwood Publishing, 2022, p. x.

[15] Jones, El. “‘We Are the Living Archive’: An Interview with El Jones on Abolition and Writing.” Interview by Karina Vernon. Studies in Canadian Literature, vol. 47, no. 2, 2022.

[16] King, Tiffany Lethabo. The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies. Duke UP, 2019.

[17] Kulkarni, Akshay. “Vancouver Police Union Breaks with Tradition and Endorses ABC Vancouver for Municipal Election.” CBC News, 5 Oct. 2022, www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-police-union-endorsement-1.6607093.

[18] Landon, Fred. “The Anti-Slavery Society of Canada.” The Journal of Negro History, vol. 4, no. 1, 1919, pp. 33-40.

[19] Lorde, Audre. “Learning from the 60s.” Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, The Crossing Press, 1984, pp. 134-44.

[20] Mackey, Frank. Done with Slavery: The Black Fact in Montreal, 1760-1840. McGill-Queen’s U P, 2 010.

[21] Mak, Ivy, and Lex Harvey. “Toronto Police to Increase Number of Officers on TTC after Series of Violent Attacks.” Toronto Star, 26 Jan. 2023, www.thestar.com/news/gta/2023/01/26/ttc-toronto-police-mayor-tory-hold-joint-newser-to-address-recent-violence-and-safety-issues.html.

[22] Malone, Kelly Geraldine. “Expert Warns of ‘Perfect Storm’ as the Number of Police Shootings Increases in 2022.” CTV News, 27 Dec. 2022, www.ctvnews.ca/canada/expert-warns-of-perfect-storm-as-the-number-of-police-shootings-increases-in-2022-1.6209520.

[23] Mannur, Anita. “Culinary Nostalgia: Authenticity, Nationalism, and Diaspora.” MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, vol. 32, no. 4, 2007, pp. 11-31.

[24] Maynard, Robyn. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. Fernwood Publishing, 2017.

[25] Moodie, Andrew. Riot. Scirocco Drama, 1997.

[26] Moten, Fred. In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition. U of Minnesota P, 2003.

[27] Nelson, Charmaine A. “The Canadian Fugitive Slave Archive and the Concept of Refuge.” ESC: English Studies in Canada, vol. 45, no. 3, Sept. 2019, pp. 91-115.

[28] Nicholls, Hanna. “‘All Cunt and No Conscience’: Female Sexuality and Representation in George Elliot Clarke’s The Motorcyclist.” Studies in Canadian Literature, vol. 43, no. 2, 2018, pp. 188-204.

[29] Rak, Julie. “Solidaire: Why ACCUTE Should Talk about the BCSA and Congress 2021.” The Angle Newsletter, Spring-Summer 2021, accute.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/THE-ANGLE-Spring-Summer-2021.

[30] Sharpe, Christina. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Duke UP, 2016.

[31] Stasiulis, Daiva K. “Minority Resistance in the Local State: Toronto in the 1970s and 1980s.” Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 12, 1989, pp. 63-83.

[32] Thomson, Colin A. Born with a Call: A Biography of Dr. William Pearly Oliver, C.M. Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, 1986.

[33] Tichavakunda, Antar. “Let’s Talk about Race and Academic Integrity.” Inside Higher Ed, 30 June 2022, www.insidehighered.com/views/2022/06/30/academic-integrity-issues-are-not-race-neutral-opinion.

[34] Toronto Black Women’s Collective. “Support Black People and People of Colour against Police Brutality.” Our Lives, vol. 1, no. 3, 1989, p. 1-2.

[35] Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang, editors. Toward What Justice? Describing Diverse Dreams of Justice in Education. Routledge, 2018.

[36] Ware, Syrus, and Giselle Dias. “Revolution and Resurgence: Dismantling the Prison Industrial Complex through Black and Indigenous Solidarity.” Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada, edited by Rodney Diverlus et al., U of Regina P, 2020, pp. 32-56.

[37] Wngz, Ravyn. Untitled Manifesto. CP24, 21 July 2020, marksking.com/my-fabulous-disease/the-scorching-words-of-ravyn-wngz/.Wortley, Scot, et al. Use of Force by the Toronto Police Service Final Report. www.ohrc.on.ca/sites/default/files/Use%20of%20force%20by%20the%20Toronto%20Police%20Service%20Final%20report.pdf.

[38] Zackodnik, Teresa. “‘In Another Place, Not Here’? Black Feminist Histories and Dionne Brand’s No Burden to Carry.” Topia, vol.34, 2015, pp. 103-17.