WMGS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Afua Cooper, Billboard Charts, Bedford Basin

• School: StFX
• Department: Women’s And Gender Studies
• Course: WMGS 101
• Professor: Nancy Forestell

Document Summary

A scholar of black canadian studies who works at dalhousie university. She specializes in the study of slavery in canada, as well as other issues of gender and race. Author of the hanging of angelique: the untold story of canadian slavery and the burning of old montreal. Op-ed published by kimberl crenshaw, september 26, 2015: why intersectionality can"t wait. Contemporary release responding to things happening now, the im- portance of continuing an intersectional approach. Tendency among canadians when asked if they are racist, in most polls majority say no. Slavery in canada: the underground railroad- movement of slaves from the us to. Canadian history is around race, not quite the happy story that we are fed in history. Intersectionality in gender is deeply rooted in the foundation of our country and the institutions that operate today. 1608 part of what is now canada was colonized by france.