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Title Harriet's legacies : race, historical memory, and futures in Canada / edited by Ronald Cummings and Natalee Caple
Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (x, 437 pages) : illustrations
Series Carleton Library series ; 259
Carleton library series ; 259.
Contents Introduction: On the non-linearity of legacy : Harriet Tubman and our current historical juncture -- Section one. On the legacies of radical mobility. The Cataract House Hotel : underground to Canada through the Niagara River borderlands -- A selection of "canticles" (meditations on slavery and imperialism) -- Radical legacies in Black nineteenth-century Canadian writing -- The miracle of Ann Maria Jackson, slave fugitive and heroine of the underground railroad -- Free Black North : photography and transnational identities in nineteenth-century southern Ontario -- Colour-phobia in Canada : William Wells Brown's cosmopolitan mobility -- Section two. Transnational poetics of space making. Before the bricks and mortar : the grassroots development of the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument -- M is migrant : scenes in response to three questions and a statement from M. Jacqui Alexander's Pedagogies of crossing -- She balances the border -- Dionne Brand, map-maker -- From site to sound and film : critical Black Canadian memory culture and Sylvia Hamilton's The little Black school house -- Section three. Strategizing survival and rethinking colonial ordering. We were here : reclaiming African Canadian history through heritage plaques -- On the aggrecultural poetics of Sonnet's Shakespeare -- Mobilizing the bard : Joseph Pierre's Shakespeare's nigga (2013) -- Building Black and Indigenous alliances for HIV prevention and health promotion -- Blood is a politic of place-making : Blackness, Queerness, and the construction of the donor -- Section four. Creation is legacy : creativity and futures. The story of sister vision : Black women and women of colour press - we had to fight, cuss, and kick every inch of the way -- Dub and the right to exist : an interview with Lillian Allen -- Dub pedagogies : an interview with d'bi.young anitafrika -- Spoken word : a signifying gesture toward possibility -- wordsoundsystemsengineering : meta-dub and creation
Summary "Historic freedom fighter and conductor of the Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman risked her life to ferry enslaved people from America to freedom in Canada. Her legacy instigates and orients this exploration of the history of Black lives and the future of collective struggle in Canada. Harriet's Legacies recuperates the significance of Tubman's time in Canada as more than just an interlude in her American narrative: it is a new point from which to think about Black diasporic mobilities, possibilities, and histories. Through essays and creative works this collection articulates new territory for Tubman in relation to the Black Atlantic archive, connecting her legacies of survival, freedom, and cultural expression within a transnational framework. Contributors take up the question of legacy in ways that remap discourses of genealogy and belonging, positioning Tubman as an important part of today's freedom struggles. Integrating scholarship with creative and curatorial practices, the volume expands conversations about culture and expression in African Canadian life across art, literature, performance, politics, and public pedagogy. Considering questions of culture, community, and futures, Harriet's Legacies explores what happened in the wake of Tubman's legacy and situates Canada as a key part of that dialogue."-- Provided by publisher
Analysis African
America
Black
Essays
Freedom
Gender
Pedagogy
Race
Railroad
Resistance
Slavery
Tubman
Underground
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 17, 2022)
Subject Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913.
SUBJECT Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913 fast
Subject Black people -- Canada
Black people -- Canada -- History
Black people -- Canada -- Social conditions
Black people -- Race identity -- Canada
Underground Railroad -- Canada
Fugitive slaves -- Canada
LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian
Black people
Black people -- Race identity
Black people -- Social conditions
Fugitive slaves
Underground Railroad
Canada
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Cummings, Ronald, editor.
Caple, Natalee, 1970- editor.
ISBN 9780228012207
0228012201
9780228012191
0228012198