Constructing Black Canada

• Published in: Southern Journal of Canadian Studies
• Main Authors: Crawford, Charmaine, Flynn, Karen, Gooden, Amoaba
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Carleton University Library 2012
• Subjects: Canada; First Nations
• Online Access: https://ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/sjcs/article/view/286; https://doi.org/10.22215/sjcs.v5i1.286

Black Canadian artists and scholars challenge racist and nationalist discourses of Canadian nationhood and citizenship that place First Nations people, people of African descent and other people of colour who are born in Canada and can claim Canadian nationality based on birth, as outsiders. By contesting the 'master narrative' of Canadian nationhood and by interrogating blackness within Canada, these artists and scholars claim "African Canada" as a convergence of multiple African diasporic voices, coming from different ethno, cultural, linguistic and national spaces, but together articulating a deliberately transgressive Canadianness.