Children dancing with their instructors, Leon Llewellyn, [1970s]. Leon Llewellyn fonds, F032-02-016, Concordia University Library, Special Collections. Reproduced with permission.
Black Studies Subject Guide
This guide is being developed and updated by Concordia librarians, faculty members, and students to support research in Black Studies at Concordia. It showcases Concordia's archival collections, and brings together relevant resources for academic work in this field including database and journal recommendations, tips for designing search strategies, and links to online collections and tools.
Lagos delegation to Festac '77, Leon Llewellyn, 1977. Leon Llewellyn fonds, F032-02-530, Concordia University Library, Special Collections. Reproduced with permission.
Article databases and journals
Looking for articles from academic journals, newspapers, and magazines? Here is a list of databases where you can search, with a list of specific journals with Black Studies content.
Terminology and Search Strategies
Tips on vocabulary, subject headings, search strategies, and call numbers to focus on while doing research in Black Studies.
Online tools & resources
Black Studies guides and reading lists, university programs, community projects, authors and artists, organizations and associations. Resources from across Canada but with a focus on the local.
Archives and Primary Sources
This page is a resource on the Black History and Community Archives that are available at Concordia University. Most of the archival records related to Black Histories are preserved at the Library’s Special Collections. Researchers and students will also find related records in the collection of the Records Management and Archives Department (RMA), the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS), and the Visual Collections Repository (VCR).
Black History in Concordia Special Collections
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Yume
Sifton Tracey Anipare, 2021; cover illustration, Sophie Paas-Lang.
A fantasy novel about demons, dreams, and a young woman teaching English in Japan
Beauty in a box: Detangling the roots of Canada's Black beauty culture
Cheryl Thompson, 2019
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Abolitionist intimacies
El Jones , 2022
A poetry collection examining the prison abolitionmovement throough Black feminist principles of care and collectivity
Rehearsals for Living
Robyn Maynard & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, 2022
A revolutionary collaboration and letter exchange
Unsettling the Great White North: Black Canadian History
Michele A. Johnson & Funké Aladejebi (Eds), 2022
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Where They Stood: The Evolution of the Black Anglo Community in Montreal
Black Community Resource Centre, 2023
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