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Schooling the System
The Cry of Vertières
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Reading List: Black History Month 2023
February is Black History Month. This month-long celebration honors the achievements and contributions of Black people and communities in Canada and globally. It also offers the space for learning about the historically unacknowledged histories and the historical and contemporary treatment of Black people in the country.
For Black History Month we’ve complied a reading list of recently published books that explore understudied histories and legacies of Black people both in Canada and internationally. You can also browse our Black Studies books here.
Harriet’s Legacies
Race, Historical Memory, and Futures in Canada
Harriet’s Legacies articulates new critical terrain for the historic freedom fighter Harriet Tubman by recuperating the significance of Tubman’s time in Canada as not just an interlude in her American narrative but another site for thinking about Black diasporic mobilities, possibilities, and histories, placing these narratives within a transnational and transatlantic framework.
A Black American Missionary in Canada
The Life and Letters of Lewis Champion Chambers
Lewis Champion Chambers is one of the forgotten figures of Canadian Black history and the history of religion in Canada. Through his letters, A Black American Missionary in Canada examines the lives of Black settlers in Canada West while highlighting the pivotal role the Black church played in the lives of the once enslaved.
Schooling the System
A History of Black Women Teachers
In post-World War II Canada, black women’s positions within the teaching profession served as sites of struggle and conflict as the nation worked to address the needs of its diversifying population. Using oral narratives to tell the story of black access and education in Ontario between the 1940s and the 1980s, Schooling the System provides textured insight into how issues of race, gender, class, geographic origin, and training shaped women’s distinct experiences within the profession.
The Cry of Vertières
Liberation, Memory, and the Beginning of Haiti
The Battle of Vertières was fought in 1803 between indigenous Haitian forces under the leadership of Jean-Jacques Dessalines and a French expeditionary army commanded by Napoleon. This the first book-length study of the battle. Describing a decisive yet largely forgotten moment in the revolutionary history of the Americas, the book makes an essential contribution to the complex subjects of race, memory, colonialism, and cultural nationalism in present-day France and Haiti.
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