Description
Book SynopsisMaking History is an unprecedented reflection on the positioning of Black history and art within the Canadian cultural landscape.
Table of Contents
Foreword | Josh Basseches
Introduction | Julie Crooks, Dominique Fontaine, and Silvia Forni
Residues of History and Ongoing Challenges
1 Of Africa: A Reflection on “Speaking Back” | Julie Crooks and Dominique Fontaine
2 Opening Spaces: Of Africa, Hauntings, Hesitations, and Possible Futures | Silvia Forni
3 The Into the Heart of Africa Exhibition and the Coalition for the Truth about Africa: A Personal Journey | Afua Cooper
4 Lessons Learned from the Heart of Afro-Canada: Into the Heart of Africa 30 Years Later | Rita Shelton Deverell
5 A Life in the Day of an Object | Nourbese Philip
Black Art/Black Canada
6 Here We Are Here: Creating in the Black Atlantic | Sylvia D. Hamilton
7 Sweet Childhood, Art, and Memory | Bushra Junaid
8 From Souvenir to How She Read: The Poetry behind the Design | Chantal Gibson
9 Between Absence and Presence: The Politics and Poetics of (In)Visibility in the Work of Sandra Brewster | Pamela Edmonds
10 On Sucking Teeth | Michèle Pearson Clarke
11 Hoodies and Regimentals: Black Attire and Access in the Canadian Art Museum | Joana Joachim
12 What to Wear in Canada in Winter | Sally Frater
13 Longing and Belonging: A Personal Journey through Art and Identity | Karin Jones
14 Singularity and Strangeness: One-on-One with Eddy Firmin | Dominique Fontaine
15 On Quiet Happiness, Charcoal, Wood, and Metal: Charmaine Lurch’s Being, Belonging and Grace | Katherine McKittrick
16 Esmaa Mohamoud: Playing the Game | Kelsey Adams
17 Twisted Together: The Sweet Ironies of Belonging in the Art of Bushra Junaid | Honor Ford-Smith
18 A Self-Portrait of Creation: Depi m sòti nan Ginen | Stéphane Martelly
19 Digging Us: Making Visible Black Canadian Narratives | Andrea Fatona
Towards a History of Black Art in Canadian Institutions: Here We Are Here?
20 Travelling Exhibition: Here We Are Here at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts | Shelley Ruth Butler
21 Why Are There No Famous Black Canadian Artists? Here We Are Here and How Diversity and Inclusion Trump Aesthetic Critique | Rinaldo Walcott
22 The Pervasive Persistence of Primitivism: Face-to-Face and Exhibition Practices in the 21st Century | Elizabeth Harney
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