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FEAR OF A BLACK NATION

An extremely important and timely book exhaustively researched, expertly executed, and beautifully written. Fear of a Black Nation solidifies David Austins place as one of the most important Black writers and intellectuals in North America.

Barrington Walker, Associate Professor of History, Queens University, and author of Race on Trial

David Austin thoroughly analyzes the issues of power, gender, race, and politics that were at play at the time of, and after, the 1968 Congress of Black Writers. The radical left narrative of the Caribbean intersected with Black radical politics in Montreal, and life was forever changed by the rhetoric, the call for sweeping change, and a Pan-African sensibility. Such were the teachings at the Congressfrom the likes of Rocky Jones of Nova Scotia, Stokely Carmichael of Trinidad and the Black Power Movement in the United States, C.L.R. James of Trinidad, Walter Rodney of Guyana, and others who would be on a list of whos who of the Caribbean left. Fear of a Black Nation is a mustread for anyone interested in closing gaps in modern Canadian history.

Althea Prince, Professor of Sociology, Ryerson University, and author of Being Black

A brilliant analysis of the Black Canadian experience, David Austins Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal challenges everything we think we know about Black Canada and the police state. Drawing on intensive and extensive research that spans several continents, and using RCMP dossiers, Austin tells the story of Black activism in Montreal, and shows us how this activism changed history for Black Canadians, Caribbeans, and Black people worldwide. Without a doubt, it is ground-breaking work.

Afua Cooper, James R. Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies, Dalhousie University

In this superb book, Austin shows us how the past reverberates in the present. From the historical fact of slavery in Canada to national security state paranoia towards Black dissent in the 1970s, Fear of a Black Nation artfully weaves a rich tapestry connecting Black struggles for freedom and dignity, the geohistorical significance of Montreal and Black/Caribbean left thought, and the politics of race, gender, class, and nation. Canada, and, indeed, the world, is not yet free from the burden of race this work offers important insights for struggles against the dehumanizing effects of racism and colonialism, and points toward new horizons of possibility for human emancipation.

Aziz Choudry, Assistant Professor of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University

At the heart of this big-hearted book is Austins insistence on history, or as he puts it, the lived experience of Blacks, against silence and the abstractions or chimeras of ideology. Readers will learn much about Canadas black history here, but they will also learn about why it matters to everyone.

Karen Dubinsky, Professor of Global Development Studies/History, Queens University

In this path-breaking work, Austin takes us deep into the fascinating world of race, security, and Montreals 1960s. When we emerge, it is no longer possible to talk about Canada or Quebec in the same way as before. Fear of a Black Nation is a crucially important book.

Sean Mills, Assistant Professor of History, University of Toronto, and author of The Empire Within

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Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal

2013 David Austin

First published in 2013 by
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Every reasonable effort has been made to identify copyright holders. Between the Lines would be pleased to have any errors or omissions brought to its attention.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Austin, David

Fear of a black nation [electronic resource] : race, sex and security in sixties

Montreal / David Austin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic monograph.

Issued also in print format.

ISBN 978-1-77113-011-0 (EPUB).

1. Montral (Qubec)History20th century. 2. Montral (Qubec)Race relationsHistory20th century. 3. Black powerQubec (Province)MontralHistory20th century. I. Title.

FC2947.4.A88 2013 971.4' 2804 C2012-903716-8

Cover and text design by David Vereschagin/Quadrat Communications

As winner of the 2012 Wilson Prize for Publishing in Canadian History, Between the Lines thanks the Wilson Institute for Canadian History for its recognition of our contribution to Canadian history and its generous support of this book.

Between the Lines gratefully acknowledges assistance for its publishing activities from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishers Tax Credit program and through the Ontario Book Initiative, and the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund.

In memory of my grandfather, Cecil Austin,
and Jan Carew, Bridget Joseph, and Irene Kon

For my children, Mshama and Alama

Race is a burden, a fetter, an albatross a noose.

We should be well beyond the problem of the colour line. But we cannot simply transcend race without first confronting it. We still live with the virulent haunting presence of the afterlife of both slavery and colonialism.

Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal is the product of a long journey. It began its existence as an extended introduction to what would have been a book containing the proceedings of the 1968 Congress of Black Writers in Montreal. After Between the Lines expressed enthusiasm for the initial book idea, that introductory essay took on a life of its own, and Amanda Crocker and BTL supported its transformation into Fear of a Black Nation. Along the way the book benefited from Robert Clarkes skill and careful attention to detail as an editor, and I am grateful to him, Amanda, and BTL for seeing my work through to publication.

My first sense of Montreals historical importance within the Black diaspora came in the 1980s when I was a high-school student in Toronto. My older brother, Andrew, introduced me to a book that critically assessed the significance of a Black-led protest at what is today Concordia University. Around the same time I read Walter Rodneys The Groundings with My Brothers, a book that I had discovered at the famous Third World Books and Crafts, which no longer exists. The book included three presentations that Rodney had delivered in Montreal in 1968. Clearly, Montreal had been home to major developments in the Black diaspora, and yet oddly very little had been written about it.

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