Towards an African Canadian art history : art, memory, and resistance /

Towards an African Art History: Art, Memory, and Resistance, is the first book to consoloidate the field of African Canadian Art History. In this book, Charmaine A. Nelson and her colleagues--a group of established and up-and-coming artists, scholars, and cultural critics--argue for an African Canad...

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Main Authors:	Nelson, Charmaine (Author, Editor), Ohri, Aditi (Author), Crooks, Julie, 1962- (Author), Kelebay, Alexandra (Author), Thompson, Cheryl (Author), Boone, Emilie (Author), Bowen, Deanna (Author), Duncan, Carol B. (Carol Bernadette), 1965- (Author), Dionne-Petit, Mercelie (Author), Abraham, Christiana, 1966- (Author), Johnson, Adrienne R. (Author), Verrall, Krys, 1957- (Author), Jim, Alice Ming Wai, 1970- (Author), Fatona, Andrea, 1963- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Language Notes:	Text in English.
Published:	Concord, Ontario : Captus Press, [2019]
Subjects:	McCarthy, George H. McDonald, Edith H. Artists, Black > Canada > History. Artists, Black > Canada > 19th century. Africans > Canada > History. Slave trade > Canada > History. Slave trade > Canada > 18th century. Women slaves > Canada > History. Blacks in art > Photography. Minstrel shows > Canada > History. Women artists, Black > Canada > 21st century.

Table of Contents:

Part 1: Memory, Nostalgia, and Spectacle
Chapter 1: "Just Imported and To Be Sold": Creolization and the Slave-Master Relationship n Eighteenth-Century Nova Scotia / Aditi Ohri
Chapter 2: Exerting and Cultivating Selves: Nineteenth-Century Photography and the Black Subject in Southern Ontario / Julie Crooks
Chapter 3: "History Could be Taught by Means of Dolls ...": Race, Doll-Play, and the History of Black Female Slavery in Canada / Alexandra Kelebay
Chapter 4: "Come One, Come All": Blackface Minstrelsy as a Canadian Tradition and Early Form of Popular Culture / Cheryl Thompson
Part 2: Resistance and Cultural Preservation
Chapter 5: "The Canadian Inhabitants are Remarkably Fond of Dancing": Reading the African Musicians in George Heriot's 'Minuets of the Canadians' (1807) / Charmaine A. Nelson
Chapter 6: The Likeness of Fugivity: Transatlantic Considerations of a Canadian Photograph / Emilie Boone
Chapter 7: Invisible Empires / Deanna Bowen
Chapter 8: Spiritual Baptist Ritual Garments in Church and Community / Carol B. Duncan
Part 3: Institutional Practice
Chapter 9: From 'Portrait of a Negro Slave' to 'Portrait of a Haitian Woman': The Racial Politics of Renaming Art in Canadian Museum Practice / Charmaine A. Nelson
Chapter 10: Cricket in Montreal: Visualizing Race, Masculinity, and Community in Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Century Canada / Mercelie Dionne-Petit
Chapter 11: Visualities of "Difference": De-Constructing Gendered "Third World" Subjects in Representations of Canadian International Aid / Christiana Abraham
Part 4: Historiography
Chapter 12: Authoring Belonging: Early African Canadian Fine Artists George H. McCarthy (1860-1906) and Edith H. McDonald (c. 1880-1954) / Adrienne R. Johnson
Chapter 13: Beyond Parochialism: Telling Tales about Black Activism and Conceptual Art / Krys Verrall
Chapter 14: Articulating Spaces of Representation: Contemporary Black Women Artists in Canada / Alice Ming Wai Jim
Chapter 15: Claiming Space: The Development of Black Canadian Cultural Activism of the 1980s and 1990s / Andrea Fatona.