{"title":"\"The Greatest Freedom Show on Earth\": Emancipation Celebrations in Windsor, Ontario, 1957-1968","authors":"Victoria Campbell","doi":"10.22215/sjcs.v5i1.289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22215/sjcs.v5i1.289","url":null,"abstract":"Between the mid-1930s and the mid-1960s, Emancipation Celebrations in Windsor, Ontario were referred to in the city as \"The Greatest Freedom Show on Earth.\" This article explores debates between Emancipation organizers and Windsor city officials between 1957 and 1968 to demonstrate that distance from the era of slavery did not eradicate the contested nature of Emancipation celebrations as sites of political and social agitation, but resulted in new arguments about the position of African Canadians in the community. As Emancipation Day became increasingly associated with the Freedom Movement across the border, Windsor City Council and the Windsor Police Department began to push against the celebrations, eventually culminating to the celebration's cancellations in 1967 and 1968 in reaction to the Detroit Riot. The responses of Emancipation Day organizers and their supporters to this treatment will demonstrate how African Canadians in Windsor attempted to uncover city officials' claims to race neutrality and attempted to define themselves rather than be defined by others.","PeriodicalId":202897,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125224392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Who would play with me?\"? Childhood Narratives of Racial Identity","authors":"K. Flynn","doi":"10.22215/sjcs.v5i1.291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22215/sjcs.v5i1.291","url":null,"abstract":"Organizations such as the Central Citizens Committee, National Unity Association of Dresden, and the Hour-A-Day Study Club have been critical to raising awareness and addressing racial inequality across Canada during the 1940s and 1950s. Yet, the women and men who established these organizations were also parents and guardians' raising children, yet research has seldom addressed the day-to-day existential issues of what it meant to Black children living in racist and hostile environments. This paper examines the racialization of Black children and their own understandings of racial identity growing up in Canada during the twentieth century. I explore the day-to-day experiences of, and responses to, racist practices in spaces and places - such as the school, church, and home. I argue that self-understanding and identification was formed through, and in relation to, larger questions about belonging, race and space, resistance and assimilation, which are intricately connected to how Black people are situated within the Canadian nation.","PeriodicalId":202897,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115063065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artists, Society, and Activism: The Federation of Canadian Artists and the Social Organization of Canadian Art","authors":"A. Nurse","doi":"10.22215/sjcs.v4i1.279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22215/sjcs.v4i1.279","url":null,"abstract":"The Federation of Canadian Artists (FCA), established in the wake of the 1941 Kingston Conference, became a central institution through which Canadian artists attempted to reorganize their relationship to society. In particular, members of the FCA built on a series of more long-standing concerns about the problematic relationship between art and society under conditions of modernity. The FCA's goal was to bridge the gap between the arts and life and, as such, it served as a focal point through which the artists debated the character this new relationship should take. Looking first to contribute to Canada's war effort and then post-war reconstruction, the FCA ultimately instituted a series of policies that lead it away from its original objectives even while it maintained a discourse critical of the fractured and alienating nature of modern life and culture.","PeriodicalId":202897,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127591857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Securitizing the North in Canada: Observations on Continuity and Transformation: A Reply to Nicol and Heininen's \"Networking the North\"","authors":"Mathieu Landriault","doi":"10.22215/sjcs.v4i1.282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22215/sjcs.v4i1.282","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>N/A</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":202897,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"509 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122760466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Québec Questions: Québec Studies for the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Stéphan Gervais, Christopher Kirkey, and Jarrett Rudy. Oxford University Press, 2011.","authors":"Anne Trépanier","doi":"10.22215/sjcs.v4i1.283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22215/sjcs.v4i1.283","url":null,"abstract":"Book Review: Québec Questions: Québec Studies for the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Stéphan Gervais, Christopher Kirkey, and Jarrett Rudy. Oxford University Press, 2011.","PeriodicalId":202897,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132959228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Political Dropouts and the Effects of Participatory Innovations: What Ontario got Wrong and Norway gets Right","authors":"Henry Milner","doi":"10.22215/sjcs.v4i1.281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22215/sjcs.v4i1.281","url":null,"abstract":"A number of innovations have been introduced to reduce the democratic deficit. I am particularly concerned about the deficit as reflected in the decline in voting at elections among young citizens, and, more widely, the apparent decline in attentiveness to (and, thus, knowledge of) political life. The result is a large number of political dropouts, a phenomenon that tends to be ignored in the literature on alternate forms of political engagement. In a number of democratic countries, a majority can be characterized as political dropouts. I first portray this situation, drawing on comparative, generational indicators of political participation and knowledge. The main part of the paper looks for ways to address this state of events in the form of innovations that aim to promote participation and improve democratic skills what is being done, and needs to be done.","PeriodicalId":202897,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128434840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Immunize-Nation: Hollywood Contagion and the Biopolitics of the Canadian Nation-Building Project","authors":"P. Hodgins","doi":"10.22215/sjcs.v4i1.280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22215/sjcs.v4i1.280","url":null,"abstract":"This exploratory essay investigates the fruitfulness of thinking about the intersection of fears of contagion and the construction of national cultural boundaries in relation to cultural nationalist discourse in general and to the specific Canadian nation-building project. It begins by tracing the rise of biopolitical discourses on contagion in the 19 th century, explores how these discourses took on a moral-cultural character with the rise of fears of \"moral contagion\" and \"moral degeneracy\" and demonstrates how the latter fears were central to early formulations of the cultural policy/media literacy apparatus in the Victorian period. It then investigates how this Victorian fear of cultural contagion continues to animate contemporary Canadian cultural policy discourse and, through a reading of some of the Heritage Minutes, contemporary Canadian cultural nationalist texts.","PeriodicalId":202897,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134561002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Concept of Collective Rights in Quebec","authors":"J. T. Mchugh","doi":"10.22215/sjcs.v3i1.274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22215/sjcs.v3i1.274","url":null,"abstract":"Aspects of Quebec's political and legal system that have been characterized in terms of \"collective rights\" often rely upon a mischaracterization of that concept, especially in terms of strict definitions of that concept. One result of that mischaracterization is the tendency to perceive the relationship between Quebec and Canada in terms of a conflict between individual and collective rights claims, particularly in relation to language. Those perceptions have resulted in a tendency to identify Quebec as non-liberal and anti-individualist. However, understanding the distinction between group interests (which all liberal societies seek to manage and promote), claims to sovereignty, and a meaningful definition of rights and liberties may reveal a Quebec that is much more liberal and individualist than popular claims and misplaced judicial semantics might, otherwise, indicate.","PeriodicalId":202897,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122802896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal, by Afua Cooper","authors":"J. French","doi":"10.22215/sjcs.v3i1.277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22215/sjcs.v3i1.277","url":null,"abstract":"Book Review: The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal, by Afua Cooper. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007, 349 pp.","PeriodicalId":202897,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128882882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Talking to and with Canadians: Citizen Engagement and the Politics of the Romanow Commission","authors":"Tom Mcintosh","doi":"10.22215/sjcs.v3i1.275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22215/sjcs.v3i1.275","url":null,"abstract":"The Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada, headed by former Saskatchewan premier, Roy Romanow, was one of the most important reports on Canada's health system in recent years. The authors, both intimately involved in its work, offer a critical self-reflection and analysis of the Commission, providing insight into the relationship between the processes involved in how a Royal Commission operates and the mediation of ideas that inform its work.","PeriodicalId":202897,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131312805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}