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THEORIZING EMPOWERMENT

Canadian Perspectives
on Black Feminist Thought

THEORIZING EMPOWERMENT

Canadian Perspectives
on Black Feminist Thought

EDITED BY
NOTISHA MASSAQUOI AND NJOKI NATHANI WANE

INANNA PUBLICATIONS AND EDUCATION INC.
TORONTO, CANADA

Copyright 2007 Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Individual copyright to their work is retained by the authors. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronically or mechanically, including photocopying, recording, or any information or storage retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher.

Published in Canada by Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
210 Founders College, York University
4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
Telephone: (416) 736-5356 Fax (416) 736-5765
Email: inanna@yorku.ca Website: www.yorku.ca/inanna

The publisher gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for its publishing program.

Printed and Bound in Canada.

Front Cover Artwork:
Natalie Wood, The Water Carrier, pastels, wax, shells, wire, linocut on canvas, 4" x 6", 2003.
Cover/Interior Design: Luciana Ricciutelli
eBook development: WildElement.ca

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication:

Theorizing empowerment : Canadian perspectives on Black feminist thought / edited by Notisha Massaquoi and Njoki N. Wane

Includes bibliographic references.
ISBN 978-0-9782233-4-2

1. Feminism Canada. 2. Black canadian women. 3. Women, Black Canada. 4. Canada Race relations. I. Massaquoi, Notisha
II. Wane, Njoki Nathani.

HQ1453.T47 2007---305.420971---C2007-906035-8

To our ancestors: this work has been accomplished
because of your empowering and ever present energy.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Foreword
Joan Grant Cummings

love equality freedom and revolushun
dbi.young.anitafrika

Introduction
Future Imaginings of Black Feminist Thought
Notisha Massaquoi

Black Feminist Spiritualities: Where It All Begins

African Womens Indigenous Spirituality: Bringing It All Home
Njoki Nathani Wane and Erica Neegan

Practicing African Spirituality: Insights from Zulu-Latifa,
an African Woman Healer
Njoki Nathani Wane

We Get Troo: Caribbean Canadian
Womens Spirituality as a Strategy of Resistance
Yvonne Bobb-Smith

Black Canadian Feminist Histories and Frameworks:
Reclaiming Our Place

An Unsettled Feminist Discourse
Notisha Massaquoi

Building Sandcastles in the Snow: Meanings and Misconceptions of the Development of Black Feminist Theory in Canada
Jewel Amoah

Black Women, Racing and Gendering the Canadian Nation
Charmaine Crawford

African Women and Canadian History: Demanding
Our Place in the Curriculum
Njoki Nathani Wane

Black Canadian Feminist Experiences and Struggles:
Multiple Jeopardy

Third World Women, Women of Colour, and Minority Women:
An African/Black Feminist Analysis of Our Identities
Roberta K. Timothy

When Race Structures Beingness: The Experiences
of African Canadian Women in a Place They Call Home
Bathseba Opini and Njoki Nathani Wane

Race, Language and la Francophonie : Black Francophones
Caught Between Racism and Linguicism
Amal Madibbo

Censure and Silence:
Sexual Violence and Women of the African Diaspora
Llana James

Black Canadian Feminist Discourses and Practices:
Organizing for Change

Feminist Leadership and Female Genital Mutilation in Canada:
A Community Health Centres Advocacy and FGM Eradication Efforts
Wangari Esther Tharao and Linda Cornwell

Canadian Black Feminist Thought and Scholar-Activist Praxis
Rai Reece

Notes on Feminism, Racism and Sisterhood
Charmaine C. Williams and Shirley Chau

Conclusion
Canadian Black Feminist Thought:
Re-Imagining New Possibilities for Empowerment
Njoki Nathani Wane

Contributor Notes

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Work like this inevitably involves a number of people, many of whom work in the background with little recognition. In particular we would like to thank all the contributors to this project for their excellent work and cooperation. We would also like to thank our editor, Luciana Ricciutelli; with care and patience, she has made this book a reality. Our deepest gratitude is expressed to Katherine McKittrick, who supported us in the early phases of this project.

I would like to thank my family for their support and love during the preparation of this anthology and in particular, Amadou and our children: Koyiet, Nai, Sein, Azizi, and Moodi. I also take this opportunity to thank my students in all my Black Feminist classes, the participants in my Black Feminist project, and my research assistants: Arlo Kempf, Liw Liwa Torres, Paul Adjei, Bathseba Opini, and Erica Neegan. Asante Sana, Njoki

I thank Chief Kalilu Massaquoi (Baba) for his unconditional love and guidance. My sister Laconia Massaquoi for keeping me grounded. My traveling companions LLana James and Yeye Aj Knight (its a long way from Orun). I am grateful for the immeasurable support and encouragement from Julia Sudbury, J. R. Richards, Clare Warner, Selly Thiam, Harriet Grant, Diane Aiken, Anne OConnell, Keisha Williams, Janis Ellis, Edward Ulzen, and Sophie Hardingmy first editor. I thank the Staff of Womens Health in Womens Hands Community Health Centre for being a constant source of inspiration. To my parents Johannes and Sylvia Massaquoi and all my family from Freetown, San Fernando and beyond. Baiiku, Notisha

JOAN GRANT CUMMINGS

FOREWORD

Naming myself an African Caribbean Canadian feminist is for me asserting all at once who I am in any locationpolitical, social, cultural, geographic, or otherwise. It was this certainty that ensured my rooted-ness, tenacity, capacity, ability, and will to participate in the Canadian feminist movement, particularly as president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, Canada. Black womens histories, accomplishments, capacities, and abilities predate our history in Canada. Like our history in Canada today, Black womens histories are also histories of contestation, resistance, struggle, and triumphwhether it be challenging kinship systems, or securing resources for our communities.

Throughout our history, as Black women we have created spaces for ourselves to debate, disagree, and decide on our course of action. This anthology is a special space in which Black women give public voice to some of the discourses that occur in our homes, workplaces, schools, and safe spaces. The anthology shares some of our deepest thoughts and experiences that reveal the reach of racism into our accomplishments, our dreams dreamt, and those not yet conceived by generations to come!

We are a heterogeneous group of womenour critical analyses, thoughts, and actions are informed by this heterogeneity. We literally and figuratively speak in different languages and express various cultural ways of being. We represent a range of education levels, sexual orientations, and ages. We are dynamic and these stories model that dynamism.

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