Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Copyright
3. Contents
4. Figures and Tables
5. Acknowledgments and a Brief Note on Editorial Choice
6. INTRODUCTION On the Non-linearity of Legacy: Harriet Tubman and Our Current Historical Juncture
7. SECTION ONE On the Legacies of Radical Mobility
8. 1 The Cataract House Hotel:Underground to Canada through the Niagara River Borderlands
9. 2 A Selection of “Canticles” (Meditations on Slavery and Imperialism)
10. 3 Radical Legacies in Black Nineteenth-Century Canadian Writing
11. 4 The Miracle of Ann Maria Jackson,Slave Fugitive and Heroine of the Underground Railroad
12. 5 Free Black North: Photography and Transnational Identities in Nineteenth-Century Southern Ontario
13. 6 Colour-Phobia in Canada:William Wells Brown’s Cosmopolitan Mobility
14. SECTION TWO Transnational Poetics of Space Making
15. 7 Before the Bricks and Mortar:The Grassroots Development of the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument
16. 8 M is for Migrant:Scenes in Response to Three Questions and a Statement from M. Jacqui Alexander’s Pedagogies of Crossing
17. 9 She Balances the Border
18. 10 Dionne Brand, Map-Maker
19. 11 From Site to Sound and Film:Critical Black Canadian Memory Culture and Sylvia D. Hamilton’s The Little Black School House
20. SECTION THREE Strategizing Survival and Rethinking Colonial Ordering
21. 12 We Were Here:Reclaiming African Canadian History Through Heritage Plaques
22. 13 On the Aggrecultural Poetics of Sonnet’s Shakespeare
23. 14 Mobilizing the Bard:Joseph Pierre’s Shakespeare’s Nigga (2013)
24. 15 Building Black and Indigenous Alliances for HIV Prevention and Health Promotion
25. 16 Blood is a Politic of Place-Making:Blackness, Queerness, and the Construction of the Donor
26. SECTION FOUR Creation is Legacy:Creativity and Futures
27. 17 The Story of Sister Vision: Black Women and Women of Colour Press
28. 18 Dub and the Right to Exist: An Interview with Lillian Allen
29. 19 Dub Pedagogies:An Interview with d’bi.young anitafrika
30. 20 Spoken Word:A Signifying Gesture Toward Possibility
31. 21 wordsoundsystemsengineering:Meta-dub and Creation
32. Contributors
33. Index