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L’histoire des Noirs canadiens, la diaspora africaine, l’esclavage atlantique, les \u00e9tudes f\u00e9ministes et \u00e9tudes sur les femmes, les litt\u00e9ratures et l’oralit\u00e9 noire<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reconnue en tant que savante, auteure et artiste multidisciplinaire, Afua Cooper a r\u00e9cemment \u00e9t\u00e9 investie de l’Ordre de la Nouvelle-\u00c9cosse, la plus haute distinction de la province. Ses 13 livres couvrent des genres vari\u00e9s tels que l’histoire, la po\u00e9sie, la fiction et la litt\u00e9rature pour enfants.<\/p>\n

Afua Cooper a r\u00e9cemment rejoint l’Universit\u00e9 de Toronto Scarborough, o\u00f9 elle est d\u00e9sormais professeure distingu\u00e9e inaugurale d’histoire des Noirs canadiens et des diasporas africaines et d’\u00e9pist\u00e9mologies f\u00e9ministes. Auparavant, elle \u00e9tait titulaire d’une chaire de recherche Killam \u00e0 Dalhousie. Mme Cooper a mis les \u00e9tudes noires \u00e0 l\u2019avant-sc\u00e8ne au Canada en assurant le d\u00e9veloppement de l’infrastructure des \u00e9tudes noires en fondant et en lan\u00e7ant l’Association des \u00e9tudes canadiennes noires. Elle a fond\u00e9 et coordonn\u00e9 le programme d’\u00e9tudes noires \u00e0 l’Universit\u00e9 Dalhousie. L’engagement d’Afua dans les \u00e9tudes noires, l’antiracisme, l’EDI et les perturbations \u00e9pist\u00e9miques dans les universit\u00e9s canadiennes a fait d’elle une figure non seulement nationale mais aussi internationale.<\/p>\n

En 2021, Mme Cooper a re\u00e7u un financement de plus d’un million de dollars du Minist\u00e8re du patrimoine canadien pour mener des recherches sur l’histoire des Noirs canadiens dans le temps et l’espace. En tant que chercheuse principale pour ce projet, A Black People’s History of Canada<\/em>, Afua a dirig\u00e9 une \u00e9quipe de chercheur.e.s et de concepteur.rice.s de programmes d’\u00e9tudes afin d’explorer et de mobiliser les connaissances sur l’histoire des Noirs au Canada et dans la diaspora africaine.<\/p>\n

Elle est l’autorit\u00e9 reconnue en mati\u00e8re d’histoire des Noirs au Canada et une experte de premier plan dans les \u00e9tudes sur les Noirs au Canada. Son livre sur l’esclavage au Canada, The Hanging of Ang\u00e9lique: The Untold Story of Slavery in Canada and the Burning of Old Montreal<\/em> a innov\u00e9 dans l’\u00e9tude de l’esclavage au Canada et dans l’Atlantique, et dans l’histoire des femmes. Mme Cooper a \u00e9t\u00e9 commissaire et co-commissaire de dix expositions sur l’histoire et la culture des Noirs. La plus r\u00e9cente, \u00ab A History Exposed: The Enslavement of Black People in Canada \u00bb est la premi\u00e8re exposition nationale sur l’esclavage au Canada et a ouvert ses portes<\/a> au Mus\u00e9e canadien de l’immigration du Quai 21 le 1er ao\u00fbt 2024.<\/p>\n

Mme Cooper a fait partie de l’\u00e9quipe qui a r\u00e9cemment remport\u00e9 le prix Impact Connection (2024) du CRSH pour une collaboration exceptionnelle en mati\u00e8re de recherche : Trans-Atlantic Pilgrimage<\/em>:\u00a0African Histories, Poetry, Music<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Afua Cooper a \u00e9t\u00e9 boursi\u00e8re au Warren Center for Studies in American History de l’Universit\u00e9 de Harvard, o\u00f9 elle a men\u00e9 des recherches sur l’esclavage et l’enseignement sup\u00e9rieur, et a fait partie d’une cohorte internationale de chercheur.e.s engag\u00e9.e.s dans des travaux similaires. En 2021, elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 nomm\u00e9e repr\u00e9sentante du Canada pour le \u00ab Slave Route Project \u00bb du Comit\u00e9 scientifique international de l’UNESCO.<\/p>\n

Po\u00e8te \u00e9minente, Afua est l’une des fondatrices du Dub Poetry Movement au Canada. En 2020, elle a re\u00e7u le prix Portia-White, la plus haute distinction artistique de Nouvelle-\u00c9cosse, et a \u00e9t\u00e9 nomin\u00e9e pour le prix du premier ministre de l’Ontario pour l’excellence dans les arts. Son dernier recueil de po\u00e8mes, The Halifax Explosion<\/em>, a r\u00e9cemment \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9 et a re\u00e7u un accueil tr\u00e8s favorable.<\/p>\n

En outre, elle a re\u00e7u le prix des droits humains de la Nouvelle-\u00c9cosse pour sa contribution \u00e0 l’\u00e9ducation, le prix Bob-Marley de la ville de Toronto, le prix Harry-Jerome et a \u00e9t\u00e9 reconnue par le magazine Maclean’s comme l’une des 50 personnes les plus influentes au Canada. En outre, Afua a re\u00e7u des doctorats honorifiques de l’Universit\u00e9 Simon Fraser et de l’Universit\u00e9 d’Ottawa. Elle a \u00e9galement re\u00e7u le prix d’histoire le plus prestigieux du Canada, la m\u00e9daille historique J.B.-Tyrrell de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 royale du Canada, pour sa contribution exceptionnelle \u00e0 l’histoire du Canada. Les documents d’Afua Cooper sont conserv\u00e9s \u00e0 la biblioth\u00e8que Thomas Fisher Rare Books, \u00e0 l’Universit\u00e9 de 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