Until we are free : reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada

Book 2020

"An anthology of writing addressing the most urgent issues facing the Black community in Canada. The killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012 by a white assailant inspired the Black Lives Matter movement, which quickly spread outside the borders of the United States. The movement's message found fertile ground in Canada, where Black activists speak of generations of injustice and continue the work of the Black liberators who have come before them. Until...

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Black Canadians Civil rights

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Black lives matter movement Canada

Black people Canada Social conditions

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Canada Race relations

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ISBN:

9780889777361
9780889776944
0889777365
0889776946

Description:

xvi, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Introduction: The Year 2066 C.E. : an imagined future
Part I. Framing our own story : Black Live Matter in Canada, then and now
The origin story of Black Lives Matter Canada / Sandy Hudson and Rodney Diverlus
Part II. Carceral violence : blackness, borders, and confinement in Canada
Many a thousand gone / Randolph Riley and El Jones
Revolution and resurgence : dismantling the prison industrial complex through Black and indigenous solidarity / Syrus Marcus Ware and Giselle Dias (Niigaanii Zhaawshko Giizhigokwe)
Black Lives Matter beyond borders : reflections from building a global movement / Rodney Diverlus in conservation with Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Janaya Khan
Towards Black and indigenous futures on Turtle Island : a conversation / Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Unborderable blackness : how diasporic Black identities pose a threat to imperialism and colonialism everywhere / Sandy Hudson
Organizing direct action in the digital age / Janaya Khan
Part III. Creative activisms : arts in the movement
Black arts and the movement : a conversation / Ravyn Wngz and Syrus Marcus Ware
Relentless / Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae
The Afronautic Research Lab / Camille Turner
Choreographic design and performing black activism / Rodney Diverlus
Part IV. Theorizing blackness : considerations through time and space
The need to root disability justice into movements / Sarah Jama
Blackness in the atmosphere / Dana Inkster
First-generation tribulations / QueenTite Opaleke
It's in us to give : Black life and the racial profiling of blood donation / OmiSoore Dryden
From Cheechako to sourdough : reflections on northern living and surviving, while being black / Paige Galette
Mothering in the movement / Silvia Argentina Arauz
Black and Muslim / Gilary Massa
Black Lives Matter : Toronto sit-in at Pride / Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae
Part V. And beyond : Black futurities and possible ways forward
Power to all people : Black LGBTTI2QQ activism, remembrance, and archiving in Toronto / Syrus Marcus Ware
Indigenous and Black solidarity in practice : #BLMTOTentCity / Sandy Hudson
Black Lives Matter : Toronto Freedom School / photos by Anique Jordan
Conclusion: The palimpsest
Postscript : the Year 2092 C.E. : an imagined future, Part 2

Control Number:

3287826

Other Authors:

Diverlus, Rodney, 1990- editor
Hudson, Sandy, 1985- editor
Ware, Syrus Marcus, editor

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