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Challenging the myth of African Canadian leadership "in crisis," this book opens a broad vista of inquiry into the many and dynamic ways leadership practices occur in Black Canadian communities. Exploring topics including Black women’s contributions to African Canadian communities, the Black Lives Matter movement, Black LGBTQ, HIV/AIDS advocacy, motherhood and grieving, mentoring, and anti-racism, contributors appraise the complex history and contemporary reality of blackness and leadership in Canada. With Canada as a complex site of Black diasporas, contributors offer an account of multiple forms of leadership and suggest that through surveillance and disruption, practices of self-determined Black leadership are incompatible with, and threatening to, White "structures" of power in Canada. As a whole, African Canadian Leadership offers perspectives that are complex, non-aligned, and in critical conversation about class, gender, sexuality, and the politics of African Canadian communities.
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Expanding the social justice discourse surrounding "reproductive rights" to include issues of environmental justice, incarceration, poverty, disability, and more, this crucial anthology explores the practical applications for activist thought migrating from the community into the academy. Radical Reproductive Justice assembles two decades’ of work initiated by SisterSong Women of Color Health Collective, creators of the human rights-based “reproductive justice” framework to move beyond polarized pro-choice/pro-life debates. Rooted in Black feminism and built on intersecting identities, this revolutionary framework asserts a woman's right to have children, to not have children, and to parent and provide for the children they have.
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The life story of Mrs. Daisy Sweeney, an African Canadian native of Montreal, Quebec, helps fill a void in the historical documentation of Montreal Blacks (especially female elders). Of particular significance is her prominence as a music educator and othermother during her life. The current literature on African Canadian othermothering experiences is not synonymous with both White or African American females and inclusion of their voices in academic, as well as mainstream spaces, is virtually non-existent. This dissertation asks: What did it mean to be a first generation 'Negro' working class bilingual female in a largely hostile White francophone Quebec metropolis in the early 20th Century? How can her narratives help shape and inform life history and African Canadian othermothering research? My sojourn with Mrs. Daisy Sweeney referenced African centered epistemology in my conceptual understanding of herself and community mothering. Capturing her conversations meant engaging with multiple methodologies articulated through African oral traditions, life history, archival canons and interdisciplinary inquiries. It is striking to note that there were not only certain tensions associated with memory loss and physical limitations (prompted by the aging process) that destabilized and enriched our 'interactive' communication, but also revealed a rupture and reversal of the participant/researcher dynamic. In spite of blatant racial discrimination that plagued Montreal's Black communities during that time, Daisy Sweeney fulfilled a life-long dream and taught hundreds of children the canon of classical piano for over 50 years. She lived her voice through her music, finding ways to validate her own identity and empowering others in the process. She used the musical stage as her platform to draw invaluable connections between race, gender, language and social class. Daisy Sweeney's generation of othermothers is dying out and, as the carriers of culture, the urgency to tell their stories must be emphasized. The account respects, reclaims and reflects those voices. It is time to write in African Canadian female elders and diversify the exclusionary genre of life history and archival research.
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La pensée féministe s'est historiquement attachée, depuis -- voire en dehors de -- la tradition matérialiste, à montrer que le rapport de classe n'épuise pas l'expérience de la domination vécue par les femmes et, plus généralement, par les minorités sexuelles. Plus encore, en élaborant des outils d'analyse tels que le mode de production domestique , les rapports sociaux de sexe ou le rapport de genre , la pensée féministe a travaillé sur l'imbrication des rapports de pouvoir, dénaturalisant la catégorie de sexe à l'aune de ses déterminations historico-sociales. Depuis quelques années en France, la réflexion sur l'imbrication des rapports de pouvoir s'est complexifiée davantage, notamment sous l'influence des travaux nord et sud-américains, mais aussi caribéens ou indiens. Les problématiques relatives aux identités sexuelles, aux régimes de sexualité, mais aussi celles articulant le genre et la nation, la religion et/ou la couleur, ont permis de développer un véritable champ de réflexion. La question cruciale de l'articulation du sexisme et du racisme, notamment, a ainsi renouvelé tout autant l'agenda des mouvements féministes que la recherche universitaire. Cet ouvrage a pour but d'interroger les différents outils critiques pour penser l'articulation des rapports de pouvoir. Tout en interrogeant leur mode propre de catégorisation (les catégories de sexe et de race ont-elles méthodologiquement le même statut que la classe ? À quelles conditions utiliser la catégorie de race comme une catégorie d'analyse ? L'analyse en termes de classe a-t-elle été éclipsée par l'analyse croisée du sexisme et du racisme, après les avoir longtemps occultés ?...) cet ouvrage discute les différents modes de conceptualisation de ce que l'on pourrait appeler l'hydre de la domination : analogique, arithmétique, géométrique, généalogique. À partir de différentes traditions disciplinaires (sociologie, science politique, philosophie, psychologie, littérature...), les contributions ici réunies présentent un état des lieux des diverses appréhensions de l'imbrication des rapports de pouvoir -- intersectionnalité , consubstantialité , mondialité , postcolonialité , ... et, ce faisant, (re)dessinent les contours d'une véritable épistémologie de la domination. (