The Black Press

A Shadowed Canadian Tradition

Claudine Bonner, Boulou Ebanda De B'Beri, Nina Reid-Maroney (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

184 Seiten

2025
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-2670-2 (ISBN)

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This collection uncovers the rich, yet overlooked history of Canada’s Black Press, revealing its impact on intellectual activism and social justice movements from the nineteenth century to today.

The Black Press brings together original, multidisciplinary research that explores the history and impact of Black newspapers in Canada. This collection of essays introduces readers to the rich archive of Black Canadian journalism, spanning the period from the abolitionist to the modern civil rights era, and reveals the extensive network of African and African-descended activist-journalists.

The book positions Black Canadian journalists, editors, publishers, and readers as influential intellectual activists whose efforts shaped the press to drive socio-cultural change both in Canada and abroad. Through historical analysis and archival research, each essay highlights how Black journalists countered mainstream portrayals of their community, challenging dominant narratives of Blackness in the Canadian imaginary. The essays demonstrate how the Black Press served as a crucial space for reflecting on Black Canadian identity, belonging, social justice, and human rights within the colonial contexts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Combining historical, archival, and cultural analysis, the book uncovers the profound and often overlooked influence of the Black Press on Canada's cultural and political landscape.

Claudine Bonner is the Canada Research Chair in Racial Justice and African Diaspora Migration and an associate professor of sociology at Mount Allison University. Boulou Ebanda de b’BÉri is a professor of Communication and Cultural Studies and the founding director of the Audiovisual Media Lab for the study of Cultures and Societies at the University of Ottawa. Nina Reid-Maroney is a professor of history at Huron University College at the University of Western Ontario and co-director of the Huron Community History Centre.

Acknowledgements

An Introduction to The Black Press: A Shadowed Canadian Tradition
Claudine Bonner, Boulou Ebanda de B’béri, Nina Reid-Maroney

Part One: The Black Press and the Abolitionist Context

1. An Education without Walls: The Voice of the Fugitive and the Provincial Freeman as an Unconventional Classroom
Lorene Bridgen-Lennie

2. The Black Press and The Voice of the Bondsman
Neil Brooks, Nina Reid-Maroney, Scott Schofield

Part Two: Reconstructing the Black Press, 1870–1900

3. As Seen in the News: Representations of Blackness in the Mainstream Nova Scotian Newspapers, 1867–1910
Claudine Bonner

4. Georgiana Whetsel and the Case for Nineteenth-Century Black New Brunswick Newspaper Culture
Jennifer Harris

5. “Read. Important.” Anderson Ruffin Abbott’s Missionary Messenger Scrapbooks
Nina Reid-Maroney

Part Three: Representation and Activism in the Twentieth Century

6. “You Will Do the Race and Yourselves Much Good”: The Black Athlete and Sport Discourse in The Clarion (1946–1949)
Ornella Nzindukiyimana

7. Brand Advertising in Contrast in the 1970s: Selling Race and Culture Through Beer
Cheryl Thompson

List of Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.06.2025
Reihe/Serie	African & Diasporic Cultural Studies
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	260 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4875-2670-9 / 1487526709
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-2670-2 / 9781487526702
Zustand	Neuware