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"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]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: SECTION ONE ON THE LEGACIES OF RADICAL MOBILITY
• 1. Cataract House Hotel: Underground to Canada through the Niagara River Borderlands / Karolyn Smardz Frost
• 2. Selection of "Canticles" (Meditations on Slavery and Imperialism) / George Elliott Clarke
• 3. Radical Legacies in Black Nineteenth-Century Canadian Writing / Nele Sawallisch
• 4. Miracle of Ann Maria Jackson, Slave Fugitive and Heroine of the Underground Railroad / Afua Cooper
• 5. Free Black North: Photography and Transnational Identities in Nineteenth-Century Southern Ontario / Julie Crooks
• 6. Colour-Phobia in Canada: William Wells Brown's Cosmopolitan Mobility / Carole Lynn Stewart
• SECTION TWO TRANSNATIONAL POETICS OF SPACE MAKING
• 7. Before the Bricks and Mortar: The Grassroots Development of the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument / Shaun Winton
• 8. M is for Migrant: Scenes in Response to Three Questions and a Statement from M. Jacqui Alexander's Pedagogies of Crossing / Alexis Pauline Gumbs
• 9. She Balances the Border / Kaie Kellough
• 10. Dionne Brand, Map-Maker / Nalini Mohabir
• 11. From Site to Sound and Film: Critical Black Canadian Memory Culture and Sylvia Hamilton's The Little Black School House / Winfried Siemerling
• SECTION THREE STRATEGIZING SURVIVAL AND RETHINKING COLONIAL ORDERING
• 12. We Were Here: Reclaiming African Canadian History through Heritage Plaques / Natasha Henry
• 13. On the Aggrecultural Poetics of Sonnet's Shakespeare / Sonnet L'Abbe
• 14. Mobilizing the Bard: Joseph Pierre's Shakespeare's Nigga (2013) / Pilar Cuder-Dominguez
• 15. Building Black and Indigenous Alliances for HIV Prevention and Health Promotion / Jean-Paul Restoule
• 16. Blood is a Politic of Place-Making: Blackness, Queerness, and the Construction of the Donor / OmiSoore H. Dryden
• SECTION FOUR CREATION IS LEGACY: CREATIVITY AND FUTURES

• 17. Story of Sister Vision: Black Women and Women of Colour Press - We Had to Fight, Cuss, and Kick Every Inch of the Way / Makeda Silvera
• 18. Dub and the Right to Exist: An Interview with Lillian Allen / Ronald Cummings
• 19. Dub Pedagogies: An Interview with d'bi.young anitafrika / Ronald Cummings
• 20. Spoken Word: A Signifying Gesture Toward Possibility / Andrea Thompson
• 21. Wordsoundsystemsengineering: Meta-dub and Creation / Klyde Broox.

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Contributors:

Cummings, Ronald , editor

Caple, Natalee, 1970- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Harriet's legacies (Montreal ; Kingston, : London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022 — ISBN 0228010659; ISBN 9780228010654)

Related Series:

Carleton library series; [volume] 259

Subjects:

Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913

Black people — Canada

Black people — Canada — History

Black people — Canada — Social conditions

Black people — Race identity — Canada

Underground Railroad — Canada

Fugitive slaves — Canada

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 17, 2022).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

F1035.B53 H37 2022eb

ISBNs:

9780228012207 (electronic book)
0228012201 (electronic book)
9780228012191 (electronic book)
0228012198 (electronic book)

OCLC Numbers:

1285373098

Other Control Numbers:

EBC29289876 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp17974595