Constructing Black Women's Historical Knowledge

Auteurs-es

  • Afua Cooper

Mots-clés :

African Canadian women, Canadian History, Historiography

Résumé

Cet article sur l'elaboration de la connaissance historique des femmes afro-canadiennes, presente un apercu de l'etat actuel de l'histoire des femmes noires. En explorant la theorie, l'historiographie, et la methode, l'auteure suggere de nouvelles approches et de nouvelles interpretations pour ecrire cette histoire.

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Biographie de l'auteur-e

Afua Cooper

Afua Cooper is a foremost contributor to the new field of African Canadian women's history. She is co-author of we're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up: Essays in African Canadian Women's History (University of Toronto Press, 1994), a groundbreaking work in Black women's history. Currently, she is doing work on the history of Black women in teaching, and on women and slavery in Canada. Her doctoral work is a biographical study of Henry Bibb, a nineteenth century African American/Canadian abolitionist. Afua teaches history at the University of Toronto. She is also an acclaimed poet and has published four books of poetry.

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Publié-e

2000-10-01