Black Canadian history, African diaspora, Atlantic slavery, Feminist and women’s studies, Black literatures and oratures Celebrated as a multidisciplinary scholar, author, and artist, Dr. Afua Cooper was recently invested with the Order of Nova Scotia, the province’s highest honour. Her 13 books range across such genres as history, poetry, fiction, and children’s literature. Afua Cooper […]

Modern Canadian, Black Canadian, Race, Immigration, Law Barrington Walker  is an historian of Modern Canada who focuses on the histories of Blacks, race immigration and the law.  His work seeks to illuminate the contours of Canadian modernity by exploring Canada’s emergence as racial state through its histories of white supremacy, slavery, colonization/immigration, segregation and Jim