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Charmaine A. Nelson

Charmaine A. Nelson is the Tier I Canada Research Chair in Transatlantic Black Diasporic Art and Community Engagement at NSCAD University (Halifax, Nova Scotia), where she will direct the first-ever institute for the study of Canadian Slavery. Her eighth book, Creolization and Transatlantic Blackness: The Visual and Material Cultures of Slavery, will be published by Routledge/Taylor and Francis in 2021.
Illustration of a Black woman's face in profile on a locket necklace. Over the necklace falls the shadow of a white man's face in profile.
Society

Our Unspoken Discomfort with Interracial Relationships

October 1, 2020October 1, 2020 - by Charmaine A. Nelson

Canada’s history of slavery has had a profound impact on how we view cross-racial couples

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Illustration by Sébastian Thibault
June 2018 / Society

Black Cemeteries Force Us to Re-examine Our History with Slavery

May 28, 2018June 12, 2020 - by Charmaine A. Nelson

How we treat the dead tells a disturbing story about Canada’s racism

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A fugitive slave ad that appeared in the Quebec Gazette.
Education

The Canadian Narrative about Slavery Is Wrong

July 21, 2017June 12, 2020 - by Charmaine A. Nelson

Casting ourselves as the “saviours” of African American fugitives fits neatly into our national identity. But this country, too, was founded on exploitation

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