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An International Black Diaspora Reading & Watching List Compiled by

Amandine Gay (@orpheonegra)


FRANCE

DOCUMENTARIES

Black France (A three-part series looking at the history of France's black community and
their long struggle for recognition.)
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2013/08/201382894144265709.html
Les marches de la liberte (Walks to Freedom) by Rokhaya DIALLO
Trailer: https://youtu.be/iZG5fNP73eU
Presentation of the filmmaker and her project (in English):
https://frenchamerican.org/events/les-marches-de-la-liberte-rokhaya-diallo
Trop Noire pour etre francaise (Too Black to be French) by Isabelle BONI CLAVERIE
No English subtitles available
Trailer: https://youtu.be/XL0cYh5w-qQ
VOD here: http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/050748-000-A/trop-noire-pour-etre-francaise
#BoycottExhibitB (a reportage about the demonstrations that took place in France in 2014
against Brett Baileys racist show, Exhibit B) by Amandine GAY
https://youtu.be/VetMWHWKDqI
Pap NDIAYE discusses his book The Black Condition
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5t7ge_pap-ndiaye-the-black-condition_news
Les derniers maitres de la Martinique (Martinique Last Masters)
A documentary about racial and social inequality in a post-slavery French Caribbean island
-No English Subtitles available- :
https://youtu.be/4N0OS2f4xVg
ACA - Adoptee Cultural Archive (this website tries to give an international view by/on
adoptee culture reviewed in media )
https://adopteeculturalarchives.wordpress.com/

CONFERENCES

Crystal Fleming
Killing Them Softly: Anti-Blackness & The Legacies of Slavery in France
http://livestream.com/accounts/5576628/events/4502969

RADIO
Cases Rebelles
http://www.cases-rebelles.org/

ARTICLES

Deny and Punish: a French History of Concealed Violence by Amandine GAY


http://arcade.stanford.edu/occasion/deny-and-punish-french-history-concealed-violence
The Charlie Hebdo Attack and Their Aftermath, Occasion, Volume 9, December 24, 2015
http://arcade.stanford.edu/occasion_issue/charlie-hebdo-attacks-and-their-aftermath
Charlie Hebdo backlash over 'racist' Alan Kurdi cartoon
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35306906
Why Black people in France are still invisible
http://mediadiversified.org/2015/05/12/why-black-people-in-france-are-still-invisible/
French minister compares veil wearers to 'negroes who accepted slavery'
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35927665
#BoycottHumanZoo: when racism becomes part of the art landscape
http://mrsroots.fr/2015/04/21/boycotthumanzoo-when-racism-becomes-part-of-the-artlandscape/
Exhibit B, the human zoo, is a grotesque parody boycott it
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/12/exhibit-b-human-zoo-boycottexhibition-racial-abuse
10 years after the French Revolts
http://blog.audekonan.com/10-years-after-the-french-revolts

BOOKS

Etoke, N. (2010). Melancholia Africana. Lindispensable dpassement de la condition noire.


Paris: ditions du Cygne.
Fogarty, R., Osborne, M. (2003). Construction and Functions of Race in French Military
Medicine, 1830-1920. The Color of Liberty. Histories of Race in France. p. 206-236.
Goldstein Sepinwall, E. (2003). Eliminating Race, Eliminating Difference : Blacks, Jews and
the Abb Grgoire. The Color of Liberty. Histories of Race in France. Durham: Duke
University Press, p. 28-4.
Laborde, C. (2008). Social exclusion and the Critique of Republican Nationalism, Critical
Republicanism. The Hijab Controversy and Political Philosophy. New York : Oxford
University Press.
Lamont, M. (2002). The Dignity of Working Men. Morality and the Boundaries of Race,
Class, and Immigration. Harvard University Press.
Mazouz, S., Fassin, D. (2009) What is to Become French? Naturalization as a Republican
Rite of Institution, Revue franaise de sociologie (50), (slection annuelle en langue
anglaise), p.37-64
Saada, E. (2011). Empire's Children. Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies.
University of Chicago Press
Spartacus, J. (2016). Ngropolitude. Paris: LHarmattan.
Stoler, A. L., (2010) Carnal knowledge and intimate power: race and the intimate in colonial
rule, Berkeley: University of California Press

ACTIVISTS
Ferguson In Paris (Collective fighting anti-Blackness, racial discriminations & Police
brutality)
https://fergusoninparis.wordpress.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Ferguson-in-Paris-320809614795102/
@FergusonInParis
Mwasi (A Paris based Black Feminist Collective)
https://mwasicollectif.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/MWASI-Collectif-Afrof
%C3%A9ministe/738320462869807@MwasiCollectif
Les Peaux Cibles (A Rennes based Black Feminist Collective)
https://www.facebook.com/femmesnoiresrennes/

CANADA
FILMS
Black Soul (animation short film) by Martine CHARTRAND
https://youtu.be/SFzoasx_w5A
MacPherson (animation short film) by Martine CHARTRAND
https://youtu.be/Db8eMB9MJRc
Sisters In The Struggle (documentary about Black Feminists canadians -1991-) by Dionne
BRAND & Ginny STIKEMAN
https://www.nfb.ca/film/sisters_in_the_struggle
Black Men Loving (documentary Black Men Loving is a heartwarming film that challenges
racial assumptions and stereotypes often associated with Black fathers in the media.
Through short intimate profiles with men from Regent Park and across Toronto, the film
strives to share a new perspective on Black fathers, as they take on parenthood in full
stride.) by Ella COOPER
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/110821298
Pay-Per-View: http://www.caribbeantales-tv.com/short-documentaries/black-men-loving/
Ninth Floor (documentary about Sir george Williams University riots in 1969)
Trailer: https://youtu.be/NyeuMVM6v5c
Available soon here: https://www.nfb.ca/film/ninth_floor

BOOKS AND ARTICLES


Affan, Samah. 2013 . "Ethical Gestures: Articulations of Black Life in Montreals 1960s." MA
Dissertation, Department of History, Concordia University.
Austin, David. 2013. Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Activism in 60s Montreal .
Toronto: Between the Lines.
Bannerji, H. (2000). The Dark Side of the Nation. Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism
and Gender. Toronto : Canadian Scholars' Press.
Bakali, Naved. 2015. Contextualising the Quebec Charter of Values: How the Muslim Other
is conceptualised in Quebec. Culture and Religion , 118.
Bakali, Naved. 2015. Muslim teachers experiences with race and racism in Quebec

secondary schools. CJNSE/RCJC , 6(1).


Bilge, Sirma. 2010. Beyond subordination vs. resistance: an intersectional approach to the
agency of veiled Muslim women. Journal of intercultural Studies , 31(1): 9 28.
Bilge, Sirma. 2012. Mapping Qubcois Sexual Nationalism in Times of Crisis of
Reasonable Accommodations. Journal of Intercultural Studies , 33(3): 303 18.
Bilge, Sirma. 2013. Reading the Racial Subtext of the Qubcois Accommodation
Controversy: An Analytics of Racialized Governmentality. Politikon , 40(1): 157 81.
Burman, Jenny. 2006. Absence, Removal, and Everyday Life in the Diasporic City:
Antidetention/Antideportation Activism in Montral. space and culture , 9(3), 27993.
Cooper, Afua. 2006. The Hanging of Anglique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and
the Burning of Old Montreal . University of Georgia Press.
Cooper, Cline . 2012. Interculturalism, nationalism and language in Quebec: A critical
sociolinguistic approach. Canadian Diversity/Diversit canadienne , 9(2): 34
38.
Cooper, Cline. 2013. The Quebec question in the 21st century: The power and limits of
language and identity politics. Inside Policy The Magazine of the
MacdonaldLaurier
Institute , December 2012January 2013: 33 38.
Dubinsky, K. (2010). A Haven from Racism? Canadians Imagine Interracial Adoption. Lost
kids : vulnerable children and youth in twentieth-century Canada and the United States.
Vancouver : UBC Press.
Ferrer, Ilyan, Rosalind Hampton, Elma Moses, Lena Palacios, & Edward Oh Jin Lee. 2013.
Learning in Social Action: Students of Color and the Qubec Student Movement. Journal of
Curriculum Theorizing 29(2): 35pp.
Golnaraghi, Golnaz, and Albert .J. Mills. 2013. Unveiling the myth of the Muslim woman: a
postcolonial critique. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 32
(2): 15772.

Hage, G. (1998). White Nation. Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society.


London : Routledge.
Hampton, Rosalind. 2010. Black learners in Canada. Race & Class 52(1):
103110.
Hinterberger, Amy. 2010. The Genomics of Difference and the Politics of Race in Canada. In
Whats the use of race: Modern governance and the biology of difference , eds. I. Whitmarsh
and D.S. Jones (14767). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Jamil, Uzma. 2013. National minority and racialized minorities: The case of Pakistanis in
Quebec. Ethnic and Racial Studies . 118.
Leroux, Darryl. 2010a . Qubec Nationalism and the Production of Difference: The
BouchardTaylor Commission, Qubec Identity Act, and Qubecs Immigrant Integration
Policy. Qubec Studies, 49: 10726.
Leroux, Darryl. 2010 b. The Spectacle of Champlain: Commemorating Qubec.
Borderlands , 9 (1), http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol9no1_2010/leroux_champlain.htm
Leroux, Darryl. 2011. Qubec in France: Towards an understanding of the transAtlantic
FrenchQubec subject. Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and
Culture , 17(3): 37391.
Leroux, Darryl. 2012. Debating Qubecs Interculturalism as a Response to Canadas
Multiculturalism: An Exercise in Normative Nationalisms? Canadian Diversity
/Diversit canadienne , 9(2): 67 71.
Leroux, Darryl. 2013. The Many Paradoxes of Race in Qubec: Civilization, Lacit , and
Gender Inequality. In Critical Inquiries: A Reader in Studies of Canada , eds. L. Caldwell, D.
Leroux, and C. Leung (53 71) . Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.
Leroux, Darryl. 2014. A Genealogists Paradise: France, Qubec, and the Genealogics of
Race. Ethnic and Racial Studies . 38(5): 71833.
Leroux, Darryl. 2015. Le Grand livre de Champlain : Cartography, Colonialism, and

Commemoration in the French Atlantic. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial


Studies.
Mahrouse, Gada. 2010. Reasonable accommodation debates in Quebec: The limits of
participation and dialogue. Race and Class , 52(1): 8596.
Mahrouse, Gada, Chantal Maill & Daniel Sale. 2014. Monsieur Lazhar: Exploring the
dis/junctures between art and life in Qubec. Quebec Studies.
Marshall, Bill. 2009. The French Atlantic: travels in culture and history . Liverpool, UK:
Liverpool University Press.
Mathieu, Sara Jane. 2001. North of the colour line: Sleeping car porters and the battle
against Jim Crow on Canadian rails, 18801920. Labour/Le Travail , 941.
Mathieu, Sara Jane. 2010. North of the color line: Migration and Black resistance in Canada,
1870 1955 . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
MielkeGupta, Anelynda. 2015. Freeing the Muslim Other to Conform: Spiritual
GroupBased Affiliation and the State in Qubec & France. Journal of Religion & Culture
(25), 1130.
Mills, Sean. 2010. The empire within: Postcolonial thought and political activism in sixties
Montreal . Montral: McGillQueen's Press.
Mugabo, Dlice. 2015. Window Seat: Looking Out from the Margins at Quebecs
AntiCharter of Values. Convergence: A Journal of Undergraduate and Community
Research, 5, 2939.
Nagel, J. (1994). Constructing Ethnicity: Creating and Recreating Ethnic Identity and Culture.
Social Problems, 41 (1), 152-176
Nelson, Charmaine. 2004. Slavery, Portraiture and the Colonial Limits of Canadian Art
History. Canadian Woman Studies , 23 (2), 22 29.
Nelson, Charmaine. 2011. Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art . New
York: Routledge.

Nieguth, Tim, & Aurlie Lacassagne. 2009. Contesting the nation: Reasonable
accommodation in rural Quebec. Canadian Political Science Review , 3(1): 1
16.
Olwan, Dana M. 2013. Gendered Violence, Cultural Otherness, and Honour Crimes in
Canadian National Logics. Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie ,
38(4), 533 55.
PottieSherman, Yolande, & Rima Wilkes. 2013. Good code bad code: Exploring the
immigrationnation dialectic through media coverage of the Hrouxville Code of Life
document. Migration Studies , 23pp.
Ramachandran, Tanisha. 2009. Unveiling and the Politics of Liberation in Multi/
interculturalism. Canadian Woman Studies, 27(2/3), 3338.
Ransom, Amy J. 2013. Qubec History X: ReVisioning the Past Through Rap 1. American
Review of Canadian Studies, 43(1), 1229.
Roy, Olivier. 2012. The colour of gayness: Representations of queers of colour in Qubecs
gay media. Sexualities 15(2): 175 90.
Rueck, Daniel. 2014. Commons, Enclosure, and Resistance in Kahnaw:ke Mohawk
Territory, 1850 1900. Canadian Historical Review , 95(3), 352 81.
Sale, Daniel. 2007. The Quebec State and the Management of Ethnocultural Diversity:
Perspectives on an Ambiguous Record. Belonging? Diversity, Recognition and Shared
Citizenship in Canada. Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy.
Sanders, Grace Louise. 2013. La Voix Des Femmes: Haitian Womens Rights, National
Politics and Black Activism in PortAuPrince and Montreal, 19341986. Doctoral
thesis.
Department of History. University of the West Indies.
Schaefli, Laura M., and Anne. Godlewska. 2014. Social ignorance and Indigenous exclusion:
Public voices in the province of Quebec, Canada. Settler Colonial Studies , 4(3),
227 44.

Scott, Corrie. 2015. How French Canadians became White Folks, or doing things with race
in Quebec. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1 18.
SharifyFunk, Meena. 2010. Muslims and the Politics of "Reasonable Accommodation:"
Analyzing the BouchardTaylor Report and its Impact on the Canadian
Province of Qubec. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 30 (4): 53553.
Simpson, Audra. 2008. From white into red: Captivity narratives as alchemies of race and
citizenship. American Quarterly , 60 (2), 251 57.
Simpson, Audra. 2014. Mohawk interruptus: Political life across the borders of settler
states. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Sinclair, R. (2007) Identity Lost and Found : Lessons from the Sixties Scoop. First Peoples
Chidls & Family Review, 1(3), 65-82
Stasiulis, Daiva. 2013. Worrier nation: Quebec's value codes for immigrants. Politikon 40
(1): 183 209.
Thobani, S. (2007). Exalted Subjects. Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada.
Toronto : University of Toronto Press.
Trudel, M., DAllaire, M. (2004). Deux sicles desclavage au Qubec. ditions Hurtubise.
Wills, J. H., (2013). Transnational and Transracial Adoption : Multiculturalism and Selective
Color-Blindness. American Multicultural Studies. Diversity of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and
Sexuality, Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications.

Wong, Alan. 2009. The Winter of Our Discontent: Reasonable Accommodation and the
2007 Qubec Election. In Representation, Expression & Identity : Interdisciplinary Insights
on Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging , ed. T. Rahimy (13752) . Oxford,
UK:
Interdisciplinary Press.
Wong, Alan. 2011. The Disquieting Revolution: A Genealogy of Reason and Racism in the

Qubec Press. Global Media . 4(1): 14562.


Wong, Alan. 2013. Between Rage and Love: Disidentifications Among Racialized,
Ethnicized, and Colonized Allosexual Activists in Montreal." Doctoral thesis. Department of
Communication. Concordia University.
Zoghlami, Khaoula. 2015. La lutte pour la reconnaissance des Qubcoises de 2e
gnration portant le voile. Thse de matrise. Dpartment de communication. Universit de
Montral.

ACTIVISTS

Black Lives Matter (Toronto Chapter)


https://www.facebook.com/blacklivesmatterTO/
@BLM_TO
Montral-Nord Rpublik (a Montreal based collective fighting anti-Blackness, racial
discriminations & Police brutality)
https://www.facebook.com/montrealnord.republik
Third Eye Collective (a Montreal based Black Feminist collective)
http://thirdeyemontreal.com/
Arc-En-Ciel dAfrique (a Montreal based Afro-Carribean LGBT collective )
www.arcencieldafrique.org/

FESTIVAL

Massimadi MTL (LGBT film festival of the Afro-Caribbean Diasporas)


http://www.massimadi.ca/
Montreal International Black Film Festival
http://montrealblackfilm.com/?lang=fr

BRAZIL
REPORTAGE
Afro Hair Pride March (The purpose of the 1st Afro Hair Pride March is to celebrate our
natural hair texture as being part of the black identity, especially for women as a means of
empowerment. It was organized by Blog das Cabeludas and Hot Pente, took about one
thousand people to the streets of So Paulo to celebrate natural hair beauty as a symbol of
resistance and to protest against racism. The event happened in July, 26, 2015)
https://youtu.be/rb6XTKPPP88

BLOG

Black Women of Brazil


https://blackwomenofbrazil.co/

COMMUNITY ORGANIZING

Sexo e as negas, no me representa (A response by Black Brazilian Women against a


racist/sexist tv show)
https://www.facebook.com/Sexo-e-as-negas-n%C3%A3o-me-representa-700438730048409/

To be young, Black and Alive (Amnesty Campaign to bring awareness to Black youths
murders in Brazil)
http://blog.amnestyusa.org/americas/young-black-alive-breaking-the-silence-on-brazilssoaring-youth-homicide-rate/

EUROPE
The Afropean (online multimedia, multidisciplinary journal exploring the social, cultural and
aesthetic interplay of black and European cultures, and the synergy of styles and ideas
brought about because of this union)
http://afropean.com/

Article about transracial Adoption in the UK:


http://afropean.com/transracial-adoption-no-longer-a-black-and-white-issue/

UNITED KINGDOM

WEBSERIES

Strolling by Cecile EMEKE


Strolling' is a short documentary film series where we take a stroll with people in various
cities and countries around the world, having refreshingly raw and honest conversations
about various issues at the forefront of their society. We touch on everything from feminism,
sexuality, gender, race and politics to philosophy, art, history, capitalism, war and poverty
and everything else you can think of.
#Strolling: Connecting the scattered and untold stories of the Black/African diaspora.
http://www.strollingseries.com/theseries/

DOCUMENTARY

1500 And Counting (UPCOMING) by Siana Bangura - writer, blogger, and poet from
London- and award-winning filmmaker Troy James Aidoo
A Documentary Investigating Police Brutality in the UK
https://youtu.be/pV_2_QWx0jM

BLOG
No FLy On The Wall
https://noflyonthewall.com/
Black British Girlhood

http://blackbritishgirlhood.tumblr.com/

ACTIVISTS

Black Dissidents
Black Dissidents is a UK based group of militant black and brown activists, fighting for
liberation by any means necessary.
https://blackdissidents.wordpress.com/about/

GERMANY

BOOKS AND ARTICLES

Fehrenbach, H. (2007). Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany
and America. Princeton University Press.
Kilomba, G. (2010). Plantation Memories: Episodes of Everyday Racism. Unrast Verlag.
http://gradakilomba.com/books/cover/
https://schwarzemilch.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/kilomba-grada_2010_plantationmemories.pdf
Nguba Kuria, E. (2015) Eingeschrieben. zeichen setzen gegen rassismus an deutschen
hochschulen. w_orten & meer.
From hair care to racism, Afro-Germans share experiences online
http://www.dw.com/en/from-hair-care-to-racism-afro-germans-share-experiences-online/a17267196
Black Lives in Germany: A multigenerational struggle for acceptance
http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2016/04/black_lives_in_germany_a_multigenerational
_struggle_for_acceptance.html

WEBSERIES

Polyglot (The Berlin based web series follows the lives of young Polyglots in Berlin.
Beginning with Poet/rapper/actress Babiche Papaya on her quest to find an affordable
Altbau-Wohnung) by Amelia UMUHIRE
https://youtu.be/eymq_Bz74qw

BLOGS

AfroGerman Rebel (blog)


http://afrogermanrebel.com/
Black Girl in Berlin (blog)
http://blackgirlinberlin.com/home/

ASSOCIATIONS

BGHRA (The Black Germans Heritage and Research Association)


http://bghra.org/
@Blackgermans
facebook.com/blackgermans

BELGIUM
FESTIVAL
Massimadi BXL (LGBT film festival of the Afro-Caribbean Diasporas)
http://www.massimadi-bxl.be/fr/

ACTIVISTS
Mwanamke (A Bruxelles based Black Feminist Collective)
https://www.facebook.com/Mwanamke-Collectif-Afrof%C3%A9ministe-Belge1537015676592453/?fref=ts

ITALY
Neri Italinia/Black Italians
https://www.facebook.com/neritaliani/?fref=ts

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