Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: PRACTICING ANTI-COLONIAL AND ANTI-RACIST FEMINISM IN CLASSROOMS AND COMMUNITIES -- UNCOVERING THE WELL: BLACK FEMINISM IN CANADA -- INTRODUCTION -- EXPOSING THE DEPTHS OF THE WELL: METHODOLOGY AND BLACK FEMINIST LITERATURE -- METHODOLOGY -- IMPLICATIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING AND ARTICULATING A BLACK FEMINIST THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE CANADIAN CONTEXT -- THEORY AND LITERATURE -- CURRENT VOICES FROM THE WELL: BLACK CANADIAN FEMINIST THOUGHT -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- AFRICAN-CANADIAN BLACK WOMEN LEADERS: IMPACTING CHANGE IN THE DIASPORA -- INTRODUCTION -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF BLACK WOMEN -- BLACK WOMEN AND RESISTANCE -- BLACK WOMEN IN CANADA -- BLACK WOMEN AND COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- USING BLACK CANADIAN FEMINIST THOUGHT AS AN APPROACH TO TEACHING SCIENCE -- IMBUING REVOLUTIONARY VISION: THE ROLE OF BLACK FEMINIST THOUGHT IN THE LIVES OF AFRICAN CANADIAN EDUCATORS -- ENACTING RESISTANCE: THE NEED FOR ANTI-COLONIALIST EDUCATION IN THE CLASSROOM -- BETWEEN MUTUAL STRETCHING AND COLLECTIVISM: USING BLACK FEMINIST THEORIZING TO COLLABORATE AND GROW -- BLACK FEMINIST THEORIZING IN ACTION: THE ELEMENTARY SCIENCE CLASSROOM -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- SISTERSHIP: TALKING BACK TO FEMINISM -- 1. SISTERSHIP - GENESIS -- 2. SISTERSHIP AND FEMINISM -- 3. SISTERSHIP AND SELF-ACTUALIZATION -- REFERENCES -- CARIBBEAN SLAVE WOMEN'S RESISTANCE AS A FORM OF PRESERVATION: Taking a Closer Look at Pain and Its Relevance to History and the Preservation of Self -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. RESISTANCE TO SEXUAL EXPLOITATION -- 3. SPIRITUALITY -- 4. REVOLUTION -- 5. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- SER MADRE, TO BE MOTHER IN CUBA: The Life of Maria de los Reyes Castillo Bueno -- POSITIONING MYSELF IN THE WRITING -- REYITA AS FEMINIST.

MOTHERING AND RESISTANCE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDIGENOUS AFRICAN KNOWLEDGES AND AFRICAN FEMINISM: Resisting Eurocentric Ways of Knowing -- INTRODUCTION -- CENTERING INDIGENOUS AFRICAN KNOWLEDGES -- FORCED STERILIZATION -- REFERENCES -- THE HYPERSEXUALIZATION AND UNDESIRABILITY OF BLACK/AFRICAN WOMEN -- PRISON AS A METAPHOR OF BLACK/AFRICAN SEXUALITY AND WOMANHOOD -- MY DEFINED AFRICAN SEXUALITY/WOMANHOOD -- BLACK/AFRICAN WOMAN AS UNDESIRABLE -- CONCLUSION: SUBVERTING STEREOTYPICAL IMAGES OF BLACK/AFRICAN WOMEN THROUGH EDUCATION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PART TWO: THEORIZING ANTI-RACIST FEMINISM, COMPLICATING NARRATIVES OF RACE AND GENDER -- AFRICAN CANADIAN WOMEN AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORETICAL APPROACH -- SEARCH FOR LITERATURE OF AFRICAN CANADIAN WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES WITH THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM -- A GENERAL HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF THEORIES ON FEMALE CRIMINALITY -- THE CANADIAN SITUATION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- DECEMBER 6TH -- SYMBOLIC PROXIMITY: Rihana Face-to-Face -- INTRODUCTION -- THE RISE -- THE FALL -- RESURRECTION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- FLUIDITY AND POSSIBILITY: Imagining Woman of Colour Pedagogies -- NEGOTIATING THE ACADEMIC COLONIZER/COLONIZED: HISTORICALLY SPEAKING -- SILENCING -- PASSÉ BLANC -- OBSTRUCTED FLUIDITY! -- ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES! -- EPILOGUE -- REFERENCES -- TAKING SERIOUSLY THE POWER OF RACIALIZED SELF-MISREPRESENTATION: Authenticity, White Supremacy and Consequence -- RACIALIZATION, COLONIALISM AND THE MATERIALITY OF BODIES -- THE DEPENDENT STATE AND REPRESENTATION -- THE BANANA EFFECT: INTERNALIZATION AND IMITATING THE REGIME OF REPRODUCTION -- THE AUTHORITY OF THE AUTHENTIC OTHER -- REPLICATION AND REWARD: -- THE LIMITED UNIVERSALITY OF AUDIENCE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.

APPETITES: DESTABILIZING THE NOTION OF NORMALCY AND DEVIANCE THROUGH THE BLACK WOMAN'S BODY -- INSATIABLE APPETITES: BIOPEDAGOGIES AND A READING OF BUTLER'S KINDRED -- INSATIABLE APPETITES: BUTLER'S WILDSEED, THE ARC, DESIRE AND THE UN-DESIRABLE BODY -- CONCLUDING THOUGHTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- TOMEE -- PART THREE: DECOLONIZING THE HEART -- THE MASKS WE WEAR AS WE SEARCH FOR A HOME: Experiences of Homelessness for Those Who Have Non-normative Sexual Orientations within a Canadian-South Asian Community -- INTRODUCTION: 'FUNNY' BOYS AND GIRLS -- THE BASELINE NITTY-GRITTY: DEFINING TERMS, AXIOMS, AND METHODOLOGIES -- THE STORIES: KIAN IAJ (PSEUDONYM) -- THE STORIES: AMI PATEL -- WHEN HOME ISN'T SWEET…OR EXISTENT -- BUILDING SOLIDARITY -- SHEDDING THE MASK AND FINDING HOME -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- COMPLEXITIES IN THE MARGIN: Queering Black Feminism in Canada -- INTRODUCTION -- SECTION ONE: THE LITERATURE MEETS THE VOICES -- SECTION TWO: BEGGED QUESTIONS AND COLOURED SEXUALITY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- LUMBAH RASTA (A LONG JOURNEY): From Spirit Injury to Spirit Repair -- SHARING OF A LEARNING -- WHO AM I? -- WHAT ARE MY GIFTS? RECLAIMING THE SELF: BEGINNING THE JOURNEY TO SPIRIT REPAIR -- WHAT ARE MY RESPONSIBILITIES? MEDICINES, CEREMONY: GUIDES ON THE JOURNEY TO SPIRIT REPAIR -- LOOKING TOWARDS THE PATH AHEAD -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- IMPERIAL IMAGINATIONS & DECOLONIZING DREAMS: Storying Emancipations -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GREAT CANADIAN LOVE STORIES BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY -- CONCLUSION: Living in the Ruptures -- REFERENCES.