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Razing Africville

Jennifer Nelson
Razing Africville Book PDF

Author : Jennifer Nelson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442691582

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Razing Africville by Jennifer Nelson Pdf

In the 1960s, the city of Halifax razed the black community of Africville under a program of urban renewal and 'slum clearance.' The city defended its actions by citing the deplorable living conditions in Africville, ignoring its own role in the creation of these conditions through years of neglect and the refusal of essential services. In the 1980s, the city created a park on Africville's former site, which has been a place of protest and commemoration for black citizens since its opening. As yet, however, the city has not issued a formal apology to Africville residents and has paid no further compensation. Razing Africville examines this history as the prolonged eviction of a community from its own space. By examining a variety of sources - urban planning texts, city council documents, news media, and academic accounts - Jennifer J. Nelson illustrates how Africville went from a slum to a problem to be solved and, more recently, to a public space in which past violence is rendered invisible. Reading historical texts as a critical map of decision-making, she argues that the ongoing measures taken to regulate black bodies and spaces amount to a 'geography of racism.' Through a geographic lens, therefore, she manages to analyse ways in which race requires space and how the control of space is a necessary component of delineating and controlling people. A much needed re-examination of an important historical example, Razing Africville applies contemporary spatial theory to the situation in Africville and offers critical observations about the function of racism.

Razing Africville

Jennifer Jill Nelson
Razing Africville Book PDF

Author : Jennifer Jill Nelson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780802092526

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Razing Africville by Jennifer Jill Nelson Pdf

By examining a variety of sources - urban planning texts, city council documents, news media, and academic accounts - Jennifer J. Nelson illustrates how Africville went from a slum to a problem to be solved and, more recently, to a public space in which past violence is rendered invisible.

Africville

Shauntay Grant
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Author : Shauntay Grant
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781773060446

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Africville by Shauntay Grant Pdf

Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, Young People’s Literature – Illustrated Books When a young girl visits the site of Africville, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the stories she’s heard from her family come to mind. She imagines what the community was once like — the brightly painted houses nestled into the hillside, the field where boys played football, the pond where all the kids went rafting, the bountiful fishing, the huge bonfires. Coming out of her reverie, she visits the present-day park and the sundial where her great- grandmother’s name is carved in stone, and celebrates a summer day at the annual Africville Reunion/Festival. Africville was a vibrant Black community for more than 150 years. But even though its residents paid municipal taxes, they lived without running water, sewers, paved roads and police, fire-truck and ambulance services. Over time, the city located a slaughterhouse, a hospital for infectious disease, and even the city garbage dump nearby. In the 1960s, city officials decided to demolish the community, moving people out in city dump trucks and relocating them in public housing. Today, Africville has been replaced by a park, where former residents and their families gather each summer to remember their community.

Africville

Donald H. J. Clairmont,Dennis William Magill
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Author : Donald H. J. Clairmont,Dennis William Magill
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9781551300931

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Africville by Donald H. J. Clairmont,Dennis William Magill Pdf

In the mid 1960s the city of Halifax decided to relocate the inhabitants of Africville--a black community that had been transformed by civil neglect, mismanagement, and poor planning into one of the worst city slums in Canadian history. Africville is a sociological account of the relocation that reveals how lack of resources and inadequate planning led to devastating consequences for Africville relocatees. Africville is a work of painstaking scholarship that reveals in detail the social injustice that marked both the life and the death of the community. It became a classic work in Canadian sociology after its original publication in 1974. The third edition contains new material that enriches the original analysis, updates the account, and highlights the continuing importance of Africville to black consciousness in Nova Scotia.

Challenging Racism in the Arts

Carol Tator,Frances Henry,Winston Mattis
Challenging Racism in the Arts Book PDF

Author : Carol Tator,Frances Henry,Winston Mattis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802071708

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Challenging Racism in the Arts by Carol Tator,Frances Henry,Winston Mattis Pdf

Contending that cultural producion gives voice to racism, the authors--anthropologists Carol Tator and Frances Henry and attorney Winston Mattis--here examine how six controversial Canadian cultural events have given rise to a newly empowered radical or critical multiculturalism.

Consecrated Ground

George Elroy Boyd
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Author : George Elroy Boyd
Publisher : Blizzard
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : MINN:31951P007531138

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Consecrated Ground by George Elroy Boyd Pdf

In 1965, Africville, the largest and oldest black community in Canada was bulldozed into memory. What was lost to the politicians of Halifax was an inconvenience, an eyesore. What was lost to the people whose roots ran deep through the once-vibrant community was an entire way of life.

Last Days in Africville

Dorothy Perkyns
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Author : Dorothy Perkyns
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781459715905

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Last Days in Africville by Dorothy Perkyns Pdf

In mid-1960s Halifax, 12-year-old Selina is growing up in a tightly knit community of African-Canadians whose days are numbered when ugly rumours surface about the fate of Africville.

There’s Something In The Water

Ingrid R. G. Waldron
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Author : Ingrid R. G. Waldron
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-04T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773630588

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There’s Something In The Water by Ingrid R. G. Waldron Pdf

In “There’s Something In The Water”, Ingrid R. G. Waldron examines the legacy of environmental racism and its health impacts in Indigenous and Black communities in Canada, using Nova Scotia as a case study, and the grassroots resistance activities by Indigenous and Black communities against the pollution and poisoning of their communities. Using settler colonialism as the overarching theory, Waldron unpacks how environmental racism operates as a mechanism of erasure enabled by the intersecting dynamics of white supremacy, power, state-sanctioned racial violence, neoliberalism and racial capitalism in white settler societies. By and large, the environmental justice narrative in Nova Scotia fails to make race explicit, obscuring it within discussions on class, and this type of strategic inadvertence mutes the specificity of Mi’kmaq and African Nova Scotian experiences with racism and environmental hazards in Nova Scotia. By redefining the parameters of critique around the environmental justice narrative and movement in Nova Scotia and Canada, Waldron opens a space for a more critical dialogue on how environmental racism manifests itself within this intersectional context. Waldron also illustrates the ways in which the effects of environmental racism are compounded by other forms of oppression to further dehumanize and harm communities already dealing with pre-existing vulnerabilities, such as long-standing social and economic inequality. Finally, Waldron documents the long history of struggle, resistance, and mobilizing in Indigenous and Black communities to address environmental racism.

Kouchibouguac

Ronald Rudin
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Author : Ronald Rudin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442623828

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Kouchibouguac by Ronald Rudin Pdf

In 1969, the federal and New Brunswick governments created Kouchibouguac National Park on the province’s east coast. The park’s creation required the relocation of more than 1200 people who lived within its boundaries. Government officials claimed the mass eviction was necessary both to allow visitors to view “nature” without the intrusion of a human presence and to improve the lives of the former inhabitants. But unprecedented resistance by the mostly Acadian residents, many of whom described their expulsion from the park as a “second deportation,” led Parks Canada to end its practice of forcible removal. One resister, Jackie Vautour, remains a squatter on his land to this day. In Kouchibouguac, Ronald Rudin draws on extensive archival research, interviews with more than thirty of the displaced families, and a wide range of Acadian cultural creations to tell the story of the park’s establishment, the resistance of its residents, and the memory of that experience.

Speaking for Ourselves

Julian Agyeman,Peter Cole,Randolph Haluza-DeLay,Pat O'Riley
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Author : Julian Agyeman,Peter Cole,Randolph Haluza-DeLay,Pat O'Riley
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780774858885

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Speaking for Ourselves by Julian Agyeman,Peter Cole,Randolph Haluza-DeLay,Pat O'Riley Pdf

The concept of environmental justice has offered a new direction for social movements and public policy in recent decades, and researchers worldwide now position social equity as a prerequisite for sustainability. Yet the relationship between social equity and environmental sustainability has been little studied in Canada. Speaking for Ourselves draws together Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal scholars and activists who bring equity issues to the forefront by considering environmental justice from multiple perspectives and in specifically Canadian contexts.

Africaville

Jeffrey Colvin
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Author : Jeffrey Colvin
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062913739

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Africaville by Jeffrey Colvin Pdf

2020 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee-Debut Fiction A ferociously talented writer makes his stunning debut with this richly woven tapestry, set in a small Nova Scotia town settled by former slaves, that depicts several generations of one family bound together and torn apart by blood, faith, time, and fate. Vogue : Best Books to Read This Winter Structured as a triptych, Africaville chronicles the lives of three generations of the Sebolt family—Kath Ella, her son Omar/Etienne, and her grandson Warner—whose lives unfold against the tumultuous events of the twentieth century from the Great Depression of the 1930s, through the social protests of the 1960s to the economic upheavals in the 1980s. A century earlier, Kath Ella’s ancestors established a new home in Nova Scotia. Like her ancestors, Kath Ella’s life is shaped by hardship—she struggles to conceive and to provide for her family during the long, bitter Canadian winters. She must also contend with the locals’ lingering suspicions about the dark-skinned “outsiders” who live in their midst. Kath Ella’s fierce love for her son, Omar, cannot help her overcome the racial prejudices that linger in this remote, tight-knit place. As he grows up, the rebellious Omar refutes the past and decides to break from the family, threatening to upend all that Kath Ella and her people have tried to build. Over the decades, each successive generation drifts further from Africaville, yet they take a piece of this indelible place with them as they make their way to Montreal, Vermont, and beyond, to the deep South of America. As it explores notions of identity, passing, cross-racial relationships, the importance of place, and the meaning of home, Africaville tells the larger story of the black experience in parts of Canada and the United States. Vibrant and lyrical, filled with colorful details, and told in a powerful, haunting voice, this extraordinary novel—as atmospheric and steeped in history as The Known World, Barracoon, The Underground Railroad, and The Twelve Tribes of Hattie—is a landmark work from a sure-to-be major literary talent.

Razing Africville

Jennifer Jill Nelson
Razing Africville Book PDF

Author : Jennifer Jill Nelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1442686278

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Razing Africville by Jennifer Jill Nelson Pdf

1. Authoring Africville: A Selected History -- 2. Placing Africville: The Making of the Slum -- 3. Knowing Africville: Telling Stories of Blackness -- 4. Razing Africville: Fusing Spatial Management and Racist Discourse -- 5. Reconciling Africville: The Politics of Dreaming and Forgetting.

The Black Prairie Archives

Karina Vernon
The Black Prairie Archives Book PDF

Author : Karina Vernon
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781771123754

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The Black Prairie Archives by Karina Vernon Pdf

The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology recovers a new regional archive of “black prairie” literature, and includes writing that ranges from work by nineteenth-century black fur traders and pioneers, all of it published here for the first time, to contemporary writing of the twenty-first century. This anthology establishes a new black prairie literary tradition and transforms inherited understandings of what prairie literature looks and sounds like. It collects varied and unique work by writers who were both conscious and unconscious of themselves as black writers or as “prairie” people. Their letters, recipes, oral literature, autobiographies, rap, and poetry- provide vivid glimpses into the reality of their lived experiences and give meaning to them. The book includes introductory notes for each writer in non-specialist language, and notes to assist readers in their engagement with the literature. This archive and its supporting text offer new scholarly and pedagogical possibilities by expanding the nation’s and the region’s archives. They enrich our understanding of black Canada by bringing to light the prairies' black histories, cultures, and presences.

The Oxford Handbook of Social Justice in Music Education

Cathy Benedict,Patrick Schmidt,Gary Spruce,Paul Woodford
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Author : Cathy Benedict,Patrick Schmidt,Gary Spruce,Paul Woodford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190493776

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The Oxford Handbook of Social Justice in Music Education by Cathy Benedict,Patrick Schmidt,Gary Spruce,Paul Woodford Pdf

Music education has historically had a tense relationship with social justice. One the one hand, educators concerned with music practices have long preoccupied themselves with ideas of open participation and the potentially transformative capacity that musical interaction fosters. On the other hand, they have often done so while promoting and privileging a particular set of musical practices, traditions, and forms of musical knowledge, which has in turn alienated and even excluded many children from music education opportunities. The Oxford Handbook of Social Justice in Music Education provides a comprehensive overview and scholarly analyses of the major themes and issues relating to social justice in musical and educational practice worldwide. The first section of the handbook conceptualizes social justice while framing its pursuit within broader contexts and concerns. Authors in the succeeding sections of the handbook fill out what social justice entails for music teaching and learning in the home, school, university, and wider community as they grapple with cycles of injustice that might be perpetuated by music pedagogy. The concluding section of the handbook offers specific practical examples of social justice in action through a variety of educational and social projects and pedagogical practices that will inspire and guide those wishing to confront and attempt to ameliorate musical or other inequity and injustice. Consisting of 42 chapters by authors from across the globe, the handbook will be of interest to anyone who wishes to better understand what social justice is and why its pursuit in and through music education matters.

Violent History of Benevolence

Chris Chapman,A.J. Withers
Violent History of Benevolence Book PDF

Author : Chris Chapman,A.J. Withers
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442628861

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Violent History of Benevolence by Chris Chapman,A.J. Withers Pdf

A Violent History of Benevolence traces how normative histories of liberalism, progress, and social work enact and obscure systemic violences. Chris Chapman and A.J. Withers explore how normative social work history is structured in such a way that contemporary social workers can know many details about social work's violences, without ever imagining that they may also be complicit in these violences. Framings of social work history actively create present-day political and ethical irresponsibility, even among those who imagine themselves to be anti-oppressive, liberal, or radical. The authors document many histories usually left out of social work discourse, including communities of Black social workers (who, among other things, never removed children from their homes involuntarily), the role of early social workers in advancing eugenics and mass confinement, and the resonant emergence of colonial education, psychiatry, and the penitentiary in the same decade. Ultimately, A Violent History of Benevolence aims to invite contemporary social workers and others to reflect on the complex nature of contemporary social work, and specifically on the present-day structural violences that social work enacts in the name of benevolence.