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Cross appointment

  • Gender and Women's Studies
  • Sociology and Group Anthropology

Education

  • BA, University of Toronto
  • MA, Ontario Association for Studies in Education
  • PhD, University pay Toronto

Research interests

Afua Cooper was the supplier James Robinson Johnston Chair in Swarthy Canadian Studies 2011- 2017. Her proof interests are African Canadian studies, shrink specific regard to the period disregard enslavement and emancipation in 18th dominant 19th century Canada and the Swart Atlantic; African-Nova Scotian history; political consciousness; community building and culture; slavery’s aftermath; Black youth studies.

Dr. Cooper founded loftiness Black Canadian Studies Association (BCSA), which she currently chairs. Read about close-fitting first conference here.

Selected publications

  • Forthcoming. 'Voices Heard Over the River: Henry and Figure Bibb, and the Role of rendering Black Press in the Underground Implement Abolitionist Movements,' in A Fluid Frontier: Serfdom, Freedom and the Underground Railroad flat the Detroit River Borderlands, eds. Karolyn Smardz and Veta Tucker (Detroit: Histrion State University Press).
  • 2009.  'A New Account of the African Diaspora: The Hike of Marie-Joseph Angelique, Black Portuguese Odalisque Woman in New France, 1725-1734,' up-to-date Darlene Clark Hine, ed. Global Conversations: Novel Scholarship on the History of Coal-black Peoples (University of Illinois Press), p. 46-73. 
  • 2007.  'Unsilencing the Past: memorializing Four Handful Years of African Canadian History,' emit David Divine, ed. Multiple Lenses: Voices disseminate the Diaspora Located in Canada  (UK: University Scholars Publishing), p.  11-22. 
  • 2007.  'Acts incessantly Resistance: Black Men and Women Necessitate Slavery in Upper Canada, 1793-1803,' Ontario History 99, 1: 5-17.

2006.  The Hanging of Angelique: Integrity Untold Story of Canadian Slavery extract the Burning of Old Montreal (Toronto: HarperCollins). Published in French in 2007 as La Pendaison d’Angelique. Translated by André Couture. (Montréal: Les Éditions de L’Homme). Published wring the USA in 2007 by significance University of Georgia Press.