The Nova Scotia Home For Colored Children

The Nova Scotia Home For Colored Children Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The Nova Scotia Home For Colored Children book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.

The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children

Author : Wanda Taylor
Publisher : Nimbus+ORM
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-24
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781771083591

Get Book

The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children by Wanda Taylor Pdf

“A history and a testimonial towards healing” of the hundreds of African-Nova Scotian orphans who suffered abuse and neglect at the government’s hands (The Coast). In 1921, prominent lawyer and Nova Scotia Black leader James R. Johnston’s vision of a place welcoming of Black children came to reality. In an era of segregation and overt racism that saw most orphanages refuse to take in Black children, the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children fulfilled an important role. But despite its good intentions, today the Home is mostly known for a troubling past. Former residents launched a class action lawsuit alleging sexual and physical abuse suffered at the Home over a period of several decades. In The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children: The Hurt, The Hope, and The Healing, author Wanda Taylor interviews former residents participating in the lawsuit and upcoming public inquiry and connects their stories to her own relationship with the Home. The former residents in this book provide an unsettling, and sometimes graphic, description of what life was like inside the Home and describe the many ways the government system designed to protect them instead exacerbated a culture of abuse and neglect.

The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children the Hurt, the Hope, and the Healing

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1091216815

Get Book

The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children the Hurt, the Hope, and the Healing by Anonim Pdf

In 1921, prominent lawyer and Nova Scotia Black leader James R. Johnston's vision of a place welcoming of Black children came to reality. In an era of segregation and overt racism that saw most orphanages refuse to take in Black children, the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children fulfilled an important role. But despite its good intentions, today the Home is mostly known for a troubling past. Former residents launched a class action lawsuit alleging sexual and physical abuse suffered at the Home over a period of several decades. In The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children: The Hurt, The Hope, and The Healing, author Wanda Taylor interviews former residents participating in the lawsuit and upcoming public inquiry and connects their stories to her own relationship with the Home.

Share & Care

Author : Charles R. Saunders
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : Nimbus
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Blacks
ISBN : 1551090651

Get Book

Share & Care by Charles R. Saunders Pdf

Share and Care: The Story of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children is a microcosm of black Nova Scotia history. Founded nearly one hundred years ago to address the needs of neglected and unwanted children in the black community, the home has become a monument to the self-reliance and solidarity that has long defined black culture in Nova Scotia. With meticulous care, author Charles R. Saunders recreates the day-to-day life of the home and acquaints us with its devotees, the people who founded it, nurtured it, and found refuge in it. Behind the accounts, one senses the spirit of the struggles and challenges faced by the home’s supporters, determined people whose inner strength proved equal to the task of sharing and caring for each other. The text is generously illustrated with photographs and enriched by poetry—written especially for the book—of George Elliott Clarke.

The Guardianship of Best Interests

Author : Renée Nicole Lafferty
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773540552

Get Book

The Guardianship of Best Interests by Renée Nicole Lafferty Pdf

A history of charitable children's homes and emergent state-centred child welfare policy in Nova Scotia

The Blacks in Canada

Author : Robin W. Winks
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0773516328

Get Book

The Blacks in Canada by Robin W. Winks Pdf

**** A sweeping historical survey covering all aspects of the Black experience in Canada, from 1628 through the 1960s. Investigates the French and English periods of slavery, the abolitionist movement in Canada, and the role played by Canadians in the broader antislavery crusade, as well as Canadian adaptations to 19th- and 20th-century racial mores. First published in 1971 by Yale University Press. This second edition includes a new introduction outlining changes that have occurred since the book's first appearance and discussing the state of African-Canadian studies today. Cited in BCL3. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

It's Our Time

Author : Wanda Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : African American loyalists
ISBN : 1771087331

Get Book

It's Our Time by Wanda Taylor Pdf

The Black Loyalists were the first large group of people of African ancestry to settle in Halifax, in 1782. In 1796 the Jamaican Maroons arrived. Then in 1813, Black refugees fleeing the United States came. These Loyalists, Maroons, and refugees settled in the Preston area, and although some subsequently left for Sierra Leone, many stayed and established the largest community of African Nova Scotians in the province. Since then, the Preston township--comprising North Preston, East Preston, and Lake Loon/Cherry Brook--has become a web of vibrant neighbourhoods with a rich and complex history. With care and precision, award-winning writer Wanda Lauren Taylor delves into the history and development of this area, the organizations and churches that helped bolster the population, and the struggles, successes, and personal stories of several Preston-area residents. Through interviews and archival documents, Taylor shows how a resilient group of marginalized people built a thriving community that generations of African Nova Scotians can be proud of. Contains seventy-five images, both contemporary and archival, of the people and places around Preston.

Mothers of the Municipality

Author : Judith Fingard,Janet Vey Guildford
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802086938

Get Book

Mothers of the Municipality by Judith Fingard,Janet Vey Guildford Pdf

Highlighting women's activism in Halifax after the Second World War, Mothers of the Municipality is a tightly focused collection of essays on social policy affecting women. The contributors - feminist scholars in history, social work, and nursing - examine women's experiences and activism, including those of African Nova Scotian 'day's workers, ' Sisters of Charity, St. John Ambulance Brigades, 'Voices' for peace, and social welfare bureaucrats. The volume underscores the fact that the 1950s and 60s were not simply years of quiet conservatism, born-again domesticity, and consumption. Indeed, the period was marked by profound and rapid change for women. Despite their almost total exclusion from the formal political arena, which extended into the tumultuous 1970s, women in Halifax were instrumental in creating and reforming programs and services, often amid controversy. Mothers of the Municipality explores women's activism and the provision of services at the community level. If the adage "think globally; act locally" has any application in modern history, it is with the women who fought many of the battles in the larger war for social justice.

Valuing the Field

Author : Marilyn Callahan,Sven Hessle,Susan Strega
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351755030

Get Book

Valuing the Field by Marilyn Callahan,Sven Hessle,Susan Strega Pdf

This title was first published in 2000: This text provides international perspectives on examples of best practice in child welfare and proposes organizational structures and policies to support this practice. Practice innovations span the range of child welfare services, including prevention, protection and out-of-family care. The contributors describe the child welfare context in each of their particular jurisdictions, producing an addition to the literature comparing child welfare in different countries. Moreover, existing books on the subject are primarily descriptive and examine overall child welfare legislation and policy. The work adopts an analytical approach, proposing policies and focusing on the largely unexamined topic of excellence in child welfare practice.

Policing Black Lives

Author : Robyn Maynard
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781552669808

Get Book

Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard Pdf

Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first comprehensive account of nearly four hundred years of state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization and punishment of Black lives in Canada. While highlighting the ubiquity of Black resistance, Policing Black Lives traces the still-living legacy of slavery across multiple institutions, shedding light on the state’s role in perpetuating contemporary Black poverty and unemployment, racial profiling, law enforcement violence, incarceration, immigration detention, deportation, exploitative migrant labour practices, disproportionate child removal and low graduation rates. Emerging from a critical race feminist framework that insists that all Black lives matter, Maynard’s intersectional approach to anti-Black racism addresses the unique and understudied impacts of state violence as it is experienced by Black women, Black people with disabilities, as well as queer, trans, and undocumented Black communities. A call-to-action, Policing Black Lives urges readers to work toward dismantling structures of racial domination and re-imagining a more just society.

The Lost Sister

Author : Andrea Gunraj
Publisher : Nimbus+ORM
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781771088411

Get Book

The Lost Sister by Andrea Gunraj Pdf

This “haunting, consistently entrancing” novel of loss, redemption and immigrant life “evokes questions that are pressing and profound” (Quill & Quire, starred review). As the children of a Toronto immigrant family, Alisha has grown up in the shadow of her studious older sister Diana. But now Diana is missing, having never returned from a local job fair. The family’s worst fears are confirmed when Diana’s body is discovered in the woods. Shattered by the loss, Alisha is also haunted by a guilty secret: she may know the killer’s identity—and yet she can’t tell anyone. As her family unravels, Alisha finds unexpected solace when she befriends a woman who volunteers at her school. Paula was once an orphan in the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children. Estranged from her own sister, Paula helps Alisha understand that redemption and peace can only happen when we face difficult truths. Partly inspired by the true experiences of a formed resident of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children, The Lost Sister bravely explores themes of child abuse, neglect, and abduction against a complex interplay of gender, race, and class dynamics.

Reckoning with Racism

Author : Constance Backhouse
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774868297

Get Book

Reckoning with Racism by Constance Backhouse Pdf

In 1994, a white police officer arrested a Black teenager, placed him in a choke hold, and charged him with assault and obstructing arrest. In acquitting the teen, Judge Corrine Sparks – Canada’s first Black female judge – remarked that police sometimes overreacted when dealing with non-white youth. The acquittal was appealed and ultimately upheld, but most of the white judges who reviewed the decision critiqued Sparks’s comments. Reckoning with Racism considers the RDS case, in which the Supreme Court of Canada fumbled over its first complaint of judicial racial bias. This is an enthralling account of the country’s most momentous race case.

Africa's Children

Author : Sharon Robart-Johnson
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1770705287

Get Book

Africa's Children by Sharon Robart-Johnson Pdf

"Africa’s Children is a testament to one’s heritage, a belief in one’s ancestors, and a record of truth ... no told!" – Dr. Henry V. Bishop, chief curator, Black Cultural Centre, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia Chronicling the history of Black families of the Yarmouth area of Nova Scotia, Africa’s Children is a mirror image of the hopes and despairs and the achievements and injustices that mark the early stories of many African-Canadians. This extensively researched history traces the lives of those people, still enslaved at the time, who arrived with the influx of Black Loyalists and landed in Shelburne in 1783, as well as those who had come with their masters as early as 1767. Their migration to a new home did little to improve their overall living conditions, a situation that would persist for many years throughout Yarmouth County. By drawing on a comprehensive range of sources that include census and cemetery records, church and school histories, libraries, museums, oral histories, newspapers, wills, The Black Loyalist Directory, and many others, this is a history that has been overlooked for far too long.

Restoring Justice

Author : Daniel W. Van Ness,Karen Heetderks Strong,Jonathan Derby,L. Lynette Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000567489

Get Book

Restoring Justice by Daniel W. Van Ness,Karen Heetderks Strong,Jonathan Derby,L. Lynette Parker Pdf

Restoring Justice: An Introduction to Restorative Justice, Sixth Edition, offers a clear and convincing explanation of restorative justice, a movement within criminal justice with ongoing worldwide influence. The book explores the broad appeal of this vision and offers a brief history of its roots and development as an alternative to an impersonal justice system focused narrowly on the conviction and punishment of those who break the law. Instead, restorative justice emphasizes repairing the harm caused or revealed by criminal behavior, using cooperative processes that include all the stakeholders. The book presents the theory and principles of restorative justice, and discusses its four cornerpost ideas: Inclusion, Encounter, Repair, and Cohesion. Multiple models for how restorative justice may be incorporated into criminal justice are explored, and the book proposes an approach to assessing the extent to which programs or systems are actually restorative in practice. The authors also suggest six strategic objectives to significantly expand the use and reach of restorative justice and recommended tactics to make progress towards the acceptance and adoption of restorative programs and systems.

Singing Towards the Future

Author : lian goodall
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781894917551

Get Book

Singing Towards the Future by lian goodall Pdf

This book tells the the story of the famous Nova Scotian classical singers rise to fame. Illustrated with archival photos and sketches.

Multiple Lenses

Author : David Divine
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443807586

Get Book

Multiple Lenses by David Divine Pdf

Black Canadian Studies is the exploration of the range of histories, experiences, contributions, perceptions, feelings, convictions, triumphs, and obstacles awaiting to be overcome, of identified Black people of African descent resident in Canada. Black Canadian Studies revolves around the agency of Black people as the subject of investigation. Their stories, their interpretations, their pride, their independence, their self determination, their challenges, their triumphs, their shortfalls and sense of freedom and justice, are at the forefront of investigation. Multiple Lenses: Voices from the Diaspora Located in Canada is an essential introduction to an understanding of the experience of Black people in Canada over a four hundred year period. Through the lenses of history, law, literature, film, music, Black community organizations, media, sports, Black spirituality, party politics, labour markets, education and lived experience, renowned commentators explore through Canadian eyes, how Black people in Canada have identified themselves, and been identified over this period. What factors influenced that process? Black people in Canada are not part of "imagined communities" but real people with visceral connections, flesh and blood, striving to build lives under often unimaginable hardships. This book is dedicated to such Black people and their allies who, together, have fashioned meaning and hope in an often hostile environment.