The following preliminary working bibliography, prepared by Valerie Uher, is meant to provide a few titles that might prove useful for work on the issues addressed in this project. At this point, it is divided into five sections that offer entries pertaining to Canadian but often also wider contexts. We hope to add sections on Theatre and Music later.
- General References
- Inviting Conversations: Audience, Form, and Response
- Black Canadian Writing – Literary Criticism
- Black Canadian Visual Art
- Black Cinema
1. General References
Abdillahi, Idil and Rinaldo Walcott. BlackLife: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom. Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2019.
Allen, Jafari S. “Black/Queer/Diaspora at the Current Conjuncture.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 18.2-3, 2012, pp. 211-248.
Bledsoe, Adam, and Willie Jamaal Wright. “The Anti-Blackness of Global Capital.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol. 37, no. 1, Feb. 2019, pp. 8–26.
Bristow, Peggy. We’re Rooted Here and They Can’t Pull Us up: Essays in African Canadian Women’s History. University of Toronto Press, 1999.
Browne, Simone. Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness. Duke University Press, 2015.
Carby, Hazel V. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist. Oxford University Press, 1987.
Cole, Desmond. The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power. Penguin, 2020.
Chariandy, David. “‘In the Wake.’” Transition, no. 122, 2017, pp. 6.-8.
Cooper, Afua. “Constructing Black Women’s Historical Knowledge.” Atlantis, vol. 25, no. 1, 2000, pp. 39–50.
Collective, Combahee River. “The Combahee River Collective Statement.” Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, edited by Barbara Smith, Rutgers University Press, 1983, pp. 264-74.
Davis, Angela Y. Women, Race, & Class. Penguin, 1983.
—. Women, Culture & Politics. Vintage, 1990.
Ellison, Treva, Kai M. Green, Matt Richardson, and C. Riley Snorton. “We Got Issues: Toward a Black Trans*/Studies.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, 1 May 2017; 4 (2), pp. 162–169.
Ferguson, Roderick A. Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique. U of Minnesota Press, 2004.
Foster, Cecil. They Call Me George : The Untold Story of Black Train Porters and the Birth of Modern Canada. Biblioasis, 2019.
Gaines, Malik. Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible. NYU Press, 2017.
Glissant, Édouard. Poetics of Relation. University of Michigan Press, 1997.
Harney, Stefano, and Fred Moten. The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study. Minor Compositions, 2013.
Hartman, Saidiya V. Lose Your Mother: A Journey along the Atlantic Slave Route. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
—. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
Hill Collins, Patricia. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Routledge, 2009.
Holland, Sharon Patricia, and Cathy J. Cohen. Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology. Duke University Press, 2005.
hooks, bell. Black Looks: Race and Representation. Routledge, 2015.
—. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Routledge, 1994.
Hudson, Peter James. “Honkey Night in Canada.” Transition, vol. 13, no. 2, Indiana University Press, 2006, pp. 68–85.
Hunter-Young, Nataleah, and Sarah Mason-Case. “Thoughts of Liberation.” Canadian Art, 17 June 2020, https://canadianart.ca/features/thoughts-of-liberation/. Accessed 11 July 1
Isoke, Zenzele. “Black Ethnography, Black(Female)Aesthetics: Thinking/Writing/Saying/Sounding Black Political Life.” Theory & Event, vol. 21 no. 1, 2018, p. 148-168.
Johnson, E. Patrick, ed. No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies. Duke University Press, 2016.
Kelley, Robin D. G. Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class. Free Press, 1996.
Kelly, Jennifer R., and Mikael Wossen-Taffesse. “The Black Canadian: An Exposition of Race, Gender, and Citizenship.” Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études Canadiennes, vol. 46, no. 1, University of Toronto Press, June 2012, pp. 167–92.
King, Tiffany Lethabo. The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies. Duke University Press, 2019.
Lewis, Mel Michelle. “Body of Knowledge: Black Queer Feminist Pedagogy, Praxis, and Embodied Text.” Journal of Lesbian Studies 15.1 (2011): 49-57.
Lorde, Audre. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Crossing Press, 1984
Lorde, Audre, and Adrienne Rich. “An Interview with Audre Lorde.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 6.4, 1981, pp. 713-736.
Mathieu, Sarah-Jane. North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955. The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Maynard, Robyn. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. Fernwood Publishing, 2017.
McKittrick, Katherine. Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle. University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
—. Sylvia Wynter : on Being Human as Praxis. Duke University Press, 2015.
McMillan, Uri. Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance. Vol. 5. NYU Press, 2015.
Mackey, Frank. Black Then: Blacks and Montreal 1780s–1880s. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004.
—. Done with Slavery: The Black Fact in Montreal, 1760–1840. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010.
Moten, Fred. “Blackness and Nothingness (Mysticism in the Flesh).” South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 112, no. 4, 2013, pp. 737–80.
—. In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition. Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2003.
—. Black and Blur. Vol. 1. Duke University Press, 2017.
Muñoz, José Esteban. Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. U of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Nelson, Charmaine A. Ebony Roots, Northern Soil: Perspectives on Blackness in Canada. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.
Robinson, Cedric J. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, and Adam Frank. Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity. Duke University Press, 2003.
Sexton, Jared. “Race, Sexuality, and Political Struggle: Reading “Soul on Ice.” Social Justice, 30.2, 92, 2003, pp. 28-41
—. “The Social Life of Social Death.” Time, Temporality and Violence in International Relations: (De)Fatalizing the Present, Forging Radical Alternatives. Edited by Anna M. Agathangelou and Kyle D. Killian, Routledge, 2016, pp. 61-75.
Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Duke University Press, 2016.
—. Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects. Duke University Press, 2010.
—. “Still Here.” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 40, 2019, pp. 5-14.
Spillers, Hortense J. “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book.” Diacritics, 17.2, 1987, pp. 65-81.
—. Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture. University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Vernon, Karina. “The First Black Prairie Novel: Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance’s Autobiography and the Repression of Prairie Blackness.” Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études Canadiennes, vol. 45, no. 2, University of Toronto Press, June 2011, pp. 31–57.
Walcott, Rinaldo. Black Like Who?: Writing Black Canada. Insomniac Press, 2003.
—. “Freedom Now Suite: Black Feminist Turns of Voice.” Small Axe, Vo. 22, Num. 3 (57), November 2018, pp. 151–159.
—. Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora, and Black Studies. Insomniac Press, 2016.
—. “Rhetorics of Blackness, Rhetorics of Belonging: The Politics of Representation in Black Canadian Expressive Culture.” Canadian Review of American Studies, vol. 29, no. 2, Jan. 1999, pp. 1–24.
—. ed. Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism. Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2000.
Wallace, Michele. Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory. Verso, 1990.
Weheliye, Alexander G. Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human. Duke University Press, 2014
Wynter, Sylvia. “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, its Overrepresentation—An Argument.” CR: The New Centennial Review, 3.3, 2003, pp. 257-337.
—. “1492: A New World View.” Race, Discourse, and the Origin of the Americas: A New World View. Edited by Vera Lawrence Hyatt and Rex Nettleford, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995, pp. 5-57.
—.. “Towards the Sociogenic Principle: Fanon, Identity, the Puzzle of Conscious Experience, and What It Is Like to Be ‘Black.’” National Identities and Sociopolitical Changes in Latin America. Edited by Mercedes Durán-Cogan and Antonio Gómez-Moriana, Routledge, 2001, pp. 30-66.Young, John K. Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature. University Press of Mississippi, 2006.
2. Inviting Conversations: Audience, Form, and Response
Ahmed, Sara. The Cultural Politics of Emotion. Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
Berlant, Lauren, ed. Compassion: The Culture and Politics of Emotion. Routledge, 2004.
Brooks, Wanda, and Susan Browne. “Towards a Culturally Situated Reader Response Theory.” Children’s Literature in Education, vol. 43, no. 1, Mar. 2012, pp. 74–85.
Davis, Kimberly Chabot. Beyond the White Negro: Empathy and Anti-Racist Reading. University of Illinois Press, 2014.
Diamond, Elin. “Rethinking Identification: Kennedy, Freud, Brecht.” The Kenyon Review, vol. 15, no. 2, 1993, pp. 86–99.
Diawara, M. “Black Spectatorship: Problems of Identification and Resistance.” Screen, vol. 29, no. 4, Dec. 1988, pp. 66–79.
Farr, Cecilia Concha, and Jaime Harker, eds. The Oprah Affect: Critical Essays on Oprah’s Book Club. State University of New York Press, 2008.
Gaines, Alisha. Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy. The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
Glissant, Édouard. Poetics of Relation. University of Michigan Press, 1997.
Hale, Dorothy J. “Fiction as Restriction: Self-Binding in New Ethical Theories of the Novel.” Narrative, vol. 15, no. 2, 2007, pp. 187–206.
Hall, Stuart. “The Work of Representation.” Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. Sage Publications, 1997, pp. 1—64.
hooks, bell. Black Looks: Race and Representation. Routledge, 2015.
Iser, Wolfgang. The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.
Lewis, Cynthia. “Critical Issues: Limits of Identification: The Personal, Pleasurable, and Critical in Reader Response.” Journal of Literacy Research, vol. 32, no. 2, June 2000, pp. 253–66.
Longhurst, C. A. “Unamuno, the Reader, and the Hermeneutical Gap.” The Modern Language Review, 1 July 2008.
Mahrouse, Gada. “Race-Conscious Transnational Activists with Cameras: Mediators of Compassion.” International Journal of Cultural Studies, 11.1, 2008, pp. 87-105.
Nussbaum, Martha. Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.
Oatley, Keith. “Meetings of Minds: Dialogue, Sympathy, and Identification, in Reading Fiction.” Poetics, vol. 26, no. 5, Aug. 1999, pp. 439–54.
Pettersson, Anders. The Concept of Literary Application: Readers’ Analogies from Text to Life. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Rottenberg, Catherine. “‘Passing’: Race, Identification, and Desire.” Criticism, vol. 45, no. 4, 2003, pp. 435–52.
Schieble, Melissa B. “Reading Between the Lines of Reader Response: Constructing ‘the Other’ through the Aesthetic Stance.” Changing English, vol. 17, no. 4, Dec. 2010, pp. 375–84.
Siemerling, Winfried. “Ethics as Re/Cognition in the Novels of Marie-Célie Agnant: Oral Knowledge, Cognitive Change, and Social Justice.” University of Toronto Quarterly: A Canadian Journal of the Humanities vol. 76, no. 3, 2007, pp. 838-60.
Suleiman, Susan R., and Inge Crosman, eds. The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1980.
Tompkins, Jane P., ed. Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.
Toomer, Jethro W. “Beyond Being Black: Identification Alone Is Not Enough.” The Journal of Negro Education, vol. 44, no. 2, 1975, pp. 184–99.
Travis, Molly Abel. Reading Cultures: The Construction of Readers in the Twentieth Century. Southern Illinois University Press, 1998.
3. Black Canadian Writing – Literary Criticism
Andrews, Emmanuelle and Katrina Sellinger, editors. “The Work of Words” Special issue of The Capilano Review, Iss. 3, 34, Winter 2018.
Antwi, Phanuel, and David Chariandy, editors. “Writing Black Canadas.” Special issue of Transition, vol. 124, no. 1, Sept. 2017.
Bailey Nurse, Donna. What’s a Black Critic to Do? Interviews, Profiles, and Reviews of Black Writers. Insomniac Press, 2003.
Barrett, Paul. Blackening Canada: Diaspora, Race, Multiculturalism. University of Toronto Press, 2015.
Bickersteth, Bertrand. “Bordering on African American: Wayde Compton and the Readability of Blackness.”University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 84, no. 1, University of Toronto Press, Apr. 2015, pp. 55–77.
Chariandy, David. “Black Canadian Literature: Field Work and Post-Race.” The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature. Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 539- 63.
—. “‘Canada in Us Now’: Locating the Criticism of Black Canadian Writing.” Essays on Canadian Writing, Iss. 75, Winter 2002, pp. 196-216
—. “‘The Fiction of Belonging’: On Second-Generation Black Writing in Canada.” Callaloo, vol. 30, no. 3, 2007, pp. 818–29.
Clarke, George Elliott. Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature. University of Toronto Press, 2002.
—. Directions Home: Approaches to African-Canadian Literature. University of Toronto Press, 2012.
Davis, Andrea. “Diaspora, Citizenship and Gender: Challenging the Myth of the Nation in African Canadian Women’s Literature.” Canadian Woman Studies, 23(2), 2004, pp. 64-69.
French, Whitney. Black Writers Matter. University of Regina Press, 2019.
Holgado, Miasol Eguíbar. “Reading the Body Racial in Black Canadian/ Black Scottish Nonfiction: Dorothy Mills Proctor and Jackie Kay.” African American Review, vol. 51, no. 3, Johns Hopkins University Press, Sept. 2018, pp. 167–79.
Joyette, Anthony. “Self-Discovery and the Quest for an Aesthetic; The Emergence of Black Canadian Literature: 1975 towards the Millennium.” Kola, vol. 11, no. 1, Black Writers’ Guild, Mar. 1999, pp. 57–72.
Taylor, Lisa K. and Kirstin Boutilier. ‘I Walk Bathurst Street until it Come Like Home’: Studying Black Canadian Literature and Critical Citizenship in the English Classroom. Our Schools, Our Selves, Vol. 19, Issue 3, Spring 2010, pp. 353-365.
Siemerling, Winfried. The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past. McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press, 2015.
Thomas, H. Nigel, editor. Why We Write: Conversations with African Canadian Poets and Novelists: Interviews. TSAR Publications, 2006.
Walcott, Rinaldo. “‘A Tough Geography’: Towards a Poetics of Black Space (s) in Canada.” Unhomely States: Theorizing English-Canadian Postcolonialism. Edited by Cynthia Sugars, Broadview Press, 2004, pp. 277-88.
Vernon, Karina. The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology. Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2020.
4. Black Canadian Visual Art
Adams, Kelsey. “A Black Curator Is Never Just a Curator.” Canadian Art. 17 December 2019, https://canadianart.ca/features/kelsey-adams-black-curators-forum/. Accessed 11 July 2020.
Adams, Kelsey. “Black Is Canadian.” Canadian Art. April 10, 2018, https://canadianart.ca/reviews/black-is-canadian/. Accessed 11 July 2020.
Aggarwal, Aaditya “#WelcomeToBlackhurst: Chinedu Ukabam Curates Black Histories of Toronto.” Canadian Art. 21 November 2016, https://canadianart.ca/interviews/blackhurst/. Accessed 11 July 2020.
Butler, Shelley. Contested Representations: Revisiting into the Heart of Africa. University of Toronto Press, 2007.
Fatona, Andrea. 2006. “In the Presence of Absence: Invisibility, Black Canadian History, and Melinda Mollineaux’s Pinhole Photography.” Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 227-38.
Fatona, Andrea, Peter James Hudson, Rinaldo Walcott, and Kenzie, Alison. Reading the Image: Poetics of the Black Diaspora: Deane Bowen, Christopher Cozier, Michael Fernandes, Maud Sulter [Exhibition Catalogue]. Canada Council for the Arts, 2006. http://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/498/
Jim, Alice Ming Wai. “Articulating Spaces of Representation: Contemporary Black Women Artists in Canada.” Racism, Eh?: A Critical Inter-disciplinary Anthology of Race and Racism in Canada, edited by CharmaineNelson and Camille A. Nelson, 2004, pp. 352-363
Joachim, Joana. “‘Embodiment and Subjectivity’: Intersectional Black Feminist Curatorial Practices in Canada.” RACAR : Revue d’art Canadienne / Canadian Art Review, vol. 43, no. 2, UAAC-AAUC (University Art Association of Canada | Association d’art des universités du Canada), 2018, pp. 34–47.
Joachim, Joana. “Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art , Organized by the Royal Ontario Museum and adapted by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, May 12, 2018 to September 16, 2018.” Revue d’art Canadienne / Canadian Art Review, vol. 43, no. 2, 2018, pp. 137–40. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/racar/1900-v1-n1-racar04161/1054393ar/abstract/
Johnson, Adrienne R. Through African Canadian Eyes: Landscape Painting by Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century African Canadians. Master’s Thesis, Concordia University, 2015. spectrum.library.concordia.ca, https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/980559/.
Joyette, Anthony. “Three Great Black Canadian Artists. (Robert Scott Duncanson, Edward Mitchell Bannister, James MacDonald Barnsley).” Kola, vol. 26, no. 2, Black Writers’ Guild, 2014, p. 63.
Lacharite, Yaniya. When and Where We Enter: Situating the Absented Presence of Black Canadian Art. 1 Apr. 2019. Master’s Thesis, Queen’s University. qspace.library.queensu.ca, https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/handle/1974/26076.
Lee, Yaniya. “Picturing Black Masculinity.” Canadian Art. 16 November 2017, https://canadianart.ca/features/picturing-black-masculinity/. Accessed 11 July 2020.
Moriah, Kristin. “Where Are the Black Angels?” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, vol. 41, no. 3, The MIT Press, Sept. 2019, pp. 82–86.
Nelson, Charmaine. “Slavery, Portraiture and the Colonial Limits of Canadian Art History.” Canadian Woman Studies, 23(2), 2004, pp. 22-29.
Sharpe, Christina. “Variations in Black Queer Worlds.” Canadian Art. 20 August 2019, https://canadianart.ca/essays/variations-in-black-queer-worlds/. Accessed 11 July 2020.
Ware, Syrus Marcus. “Give Us Permanence—Ending Anti-Black Racism in Canada’s Art Institutions.” Canadian Art. 24 June 2020, https://canadianart.ca/features/give-us-permanence-ending-anti-black-racism-in-canadas-art-institutions/. Accessed 11 July 2020.
5. Black Cinema
Alexander, George. Why We Make Movies: Black Filmmakers Talk About the Magic of Cinema. Crown, 2007.
Beard, William, and Jerry White, eds. 2002. North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980. Edmonton, Alta.: University of Alberta Press.
Bell, Sandra, and Mythili Rajiva. “Race and Belonging: A Review of Recently Issued National Film Board DVDs.” Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 39, no. 3, Canadian Ethnic Studies Association, 2007, pp. 207–11.
Diawara, M. “Black Spectatorship: Problems of Identification and Resistance.” Screen, vol. 29, no. 4, Dec. 1988, pp. 66–79.
—. Black American Cinema. Psychology Press, 1993.
Foggo, Cheryl, director. John Ware Reclaimed. National Film Board of Canada. 2020.
Foggo, Cheryl, director. The Journey of Lesra Martin. 2002.
Hamilton, Sylvia, director. The Little Black Schoolhouse. Documentary. Maroon Films, 2007.
Hamilton, Sylvia. “A Daughter’s Journey.” Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 23, no 2, 2004, pp. 6-12.
Jacob, Selwyn, director. We Remember Amber Valley. 1984
Jacob, Selwyn, director. The Road Taken. 1996.
“Stories From The Little Black School House.” Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation Through The Lens of Cultural Diversity. Ed. Jonathan Dewar and Mike DeGagne Ashok Mathur. Ottawa: Aboriginal Healing Foundation Research Series, 2011, pp. 91-112.
—. “When and Where I Enter: History, Film and Memory.” Acadiensis vol. 41, no 2, 2012, pp. 3-16.
Hamilton, Sylvia, and Claire Prieto, directors. Black Mother Black Daughter. 1989. www.nfb.ca, https://www.nfb.ca/film/black_mother_black_daughter/. Accessed 29 July 2020.
Howard, Brianne, and Sarah E. K. Smith. “The Little Black School House: Revealing the Histories of Canada’s Segregated Schools—A Conversation with Sylvia Hamilton.” Canadian Review of American Studies, vol. 41, no. 1, University of Toronto Press, Apr. 2011, pp. 63–73.
It Takes A Riot: Race, Rebellion, Reform (2017 Rough Cut). Directed by Howard Grandison Produced by Simon Black, Idil Abdillahi, Howard Grandison. 2020. Vimeo, https://vimeo.com/429356039.
Marquis, Greg. “A War Within a War: Canadian Reactions to D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation.” Histoire Sociale/Social History, vol. 47, no. 94, Les publications Histoire sociale / Social History Inc., Sept. 2014, pp. 421–42.
Petty, Sheila. Contact Zones: Memory, Origin, and Discourses in Black Diasporic Cinema. Wayne State University Press, 2008.
Reid, Mark A., et al. Cinemas of the Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence, and Oppositionality. Wayne State University Press, 1995.
Remember Africville. Directed by Shelagh Mackenzie. 1991. www.nfb.ca, https://www.nfb.ca/film/remember-africville/. Accessed 29 July 2020.
Sexton, Jared. “The Ruse of Engagement: Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing.” American Quarterly, vol. 61, no. 1, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009, pp. 39–63.
Siemerling, Winfried. “From Site to Sound and Film: Critical Black Canadian Memory Culture and Sylvia D. Hamilton’s The Little Black School House.” Studies in Canadian Literature, vol. 44, no. 1, Dec. 2019, pp. 30–46.
Sieving, Christopher. Soul Searching: Black-Themed Cinema from the March on Washington to the Rise of Blaxploitation. Wesleyan University Press, 2011.
Taylor, Clyde. “New U.S. Black Cinema” Jump Cut, no. 28, April 1983, pp. 46-48, 41
https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC28folder/NewBlackCinema.html. Accessed 7 Aug. 2020.
Tourino, Kevin Gregory. African Canadian Cinema: A Guide to African Canadian & African Diasporic Cinema. https://africancanadiancinema.wordpress.com/about/. Accessed 16 Nov. 2020.
—. “Online Representations of African Canadian Cinema: An Ethnographic and Archival Analysis.” ma thesis, Simon Fraser University, 2010.
Varga, Darrell. Shooting from the East: Filmmaking on the Canadian Atlantic. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015.
Waugh, Thomas. Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas. McGill-Queen’s Press University Press, 2006.