Melissa N. Shaw
PhD (Queen鈥檚 University)
Black Canada; Black North America; Race and Ethnicity; Modern Canada; Colonial North America; Black British Imperial Belonging; Intellectual and Social History.
Specialization by time period: 1700 - 1940
Winter 2023:聽
Wednesday & Friday 10:30 - 11:30 am
鈥溾�楳ost Anxious to Serve their King and Country鈥�: Black Canadians Fight to Enlist in WWI and Emerging Race Consciousness in Ontario, 1914-1919,鈥� in Histoire sociale/Social History 49, 100, (November 2016): 543-580.
鈥�Dawn of Tomorrow, 鈥楢 Noble Tradition to be Maintained鈥� in the Historical Memory of Canada,鈥� in Paul E. Lovejoy and Vanessa S. Oliveira eds., Slavery, Memory, Citizenship (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2016), 165-190.
Review of Making Freedom: The Underground Railroad and the Politics of Slavery, by R.J.M. Blackett, in Journal of African American History 100, 3, (Summer 2015): 529-531
Review of The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal, by Afua Cooper, in Race and Class 52, 1, (July 2010): 111-113.
鈥淛ames Francis Jenkins,鈥� in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 16, University of Toronto/Universite虂 Laval, Forthcoming.
鈥淲illiam Peyton Hubbard,鈥� in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 16, University of Toronto/Universite虂 Laval, Forthcoming.