Resources

Here you will be able to find the research that was conducted behind this exhibit and helped inform the themes and context surrounding the archival materials and their contemporary responses.

• Aladejebi, Funké. 2021. Schooling the System : a History of Black Women Teachers. Montreal : McGill-Queen’s University Press.

• Berger, Martin A. 2011. Seeing Through Race: a Reinterpretation of Civil Rights Photography.  Berkeley: University of California Press. 

• Boye, Seika. 2014. “Portia is that You?: Contextualizing Doubt in Archival Research.” alt:theatre 11-1: 16-21. 

• Brand, Dionne. 1991. No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario,  1920s-1950s. Toronto: Women’s Press. 

• Clarke, George Elliott.. 2002. Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 

• DeFrantz, Thomas. 2002. Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press.  

• DeFrantz, Thomas. and Anita Gonzales, editors. 2014. Black Performance Theory. Durham: Duke University Press.  

• Diverlus, Rodney, Sandy Hudson, and Syrus Marcus Ware. Until We Are Free : Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada. Edited by Rodney Diverlus, Sandy Hudson, and Syrus Marcus Ware. Regina, Saskatchewan: University of Regina Press, 2020. 

• Edugyan, Esi. Out of the Sun : on Race and Storytelling. Toronto, ON: Anansi, 2021. George-Graves, Nadine. 2000. The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the  

• Negotiation of Race, Gender and Class in African American Theatre, 1900-1940. New York: St. Martin’s Press. 

• Gottschild, Brenda Dixon. 2003. The Black Dancing Body: a Geography from Coon to Cool.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan.  

• Guarino, Lindsay, Carlos R. A. Jones, and Wendy Oliver, eds. Rooted Jazz Dance: Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century. 1st ed. University Press of Florida, 2022. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv28m3hd6. 

• Hampton, Rosalind. 2020. Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University. Toronto ;: University of Toronto Press. 

• Hazzard-Gordon, Katrina. 1990. Jookin’: the Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.  

• Henry, Natasha L. 2010. Emancipation Day: Celebrating Freedom in Canada. Lancaster: Gazelle [distributor].   

• Hill, Daniel G. 1960. Negroes in Toronto: a Sociological Study of a Minority Group. Toronto. Doctoral thesis. Toronto: University of Toronto.  

• Johnson, Michele A., and Funké Aladejebi. 2022. Unsettling the Great White North : Black Canadian History. Edited by Michele A. Johnson and Funké Aladejebi. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 

• Lindgren, Allana. 2004. “Bamboula Turns 50.” Dance Collection Danse The Magazine. 2004. “Leonard Gibson: A Portrait.” Dance Collection Danse The Magazine.  

• Manning, Susan. 2004. Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race in Motion. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 

• Mathieu, Sarah-Jane. 2010. North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.  

• Maynard, Robyn, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Rehearsals for Living. Chicago, Illinois: Haymarket Books, 2022. 
  Michelle-Smith, Shawn. 2004. Photography on the Colorline: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture. Durham: Duke University Press. 

• Miller, Mark. 1997. Such Melodious Racket: The Lost History of Jazz in Canada, 1914-1949.  Toronto: Mercury Press. 

• Recollet, Karyn, Audrey Hudson, and Awad Ibrahim. 2019. In This Together: Blackness, Indigeneity and Hip Hop. Edited by Karyn Recollet, Audrey Hudson, and Awad Ibrahim. New York: DIO Press Inc.

• Roberts, Rosemarie A. 2021. Baring Unbearable Sensualities Hip Hop Dance, Bodies, Race, and Power. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press.

• Sharpe, Christina. 2016. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. North Carolina: Duke University Press.

• Stevens, Lys. 2012. “Ethel Bruneau: Montreal’s Rhythm Tap Legend.” Dance Collection Danse  The Magazine. Issue 71. 28-33.  

• Walker, Barrington. 2012. The African Canadian Legal Odyssey: Historical Essays. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 
  Walker, James. 2002. “The ‘Jewish Phase’ in the Movement for Racial Equality in Canada: [1].” Canadian Ethnic Studies34 (1): 1.

• Young, Harvey. 2010. Embodying Black Experience: stillness, critical memory and the Black  body. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 

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