Surveillance, State Power, and the Activism of Shirley Graham Du Bois
The recent Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality are a reminder that social justice advocacy and activism can come
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Canada
The 1917 Halifax Explosion and Structural Anti-Blackness in Times of Crisis
Last fall, two local researchers from Halifax, Nova Scotia published their original findings of racial disparities in the relief efforts
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Refusing the Biopolitical State: An Interview with Nathalie Batraville
In a first-of-its-kind study undertaken by political scientist Malinda Smith at University of Alberta in 2018, Smith found that Black professors
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There Is No ‘Relatively Benign’ Version of Settler-Colonialism
I might be made to agree with Erna Paris that using the term “genocide” in reference to Canada’s treatment of indigenous populations
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Rethinking Black Life on Turtle Island
The history of Black peoples in Canada prior to the mid-nineteenth century is a complex and transnational story. In popular
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