Ornella Nzindukiyimana
Biographic Data
| ID | 282636 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ornella Nzindukiyimana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ornella |
| FAMILY NAME | Nzindukiyimana |
| SIGNATURE | NZINDUKIYIMANA O |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Francis Xavier University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4923-1235 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mark Your Player, Exploit the Space
The storying of the Canadian men’s national soccer team has established immigration, multiculturalism, and transnationalism as a linchpin of the team’s climb from relative obscurity. This was transparent in the framing of the team leading up to and during the team’s historic appearance at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, following a 36 year-long campaign to return to the tournament. The contemporary phenomenon of celebrating ‘outsiders,’ particu…
The Other Olympians
Imagine
The Queen's Gambit
The Queen of Basketball is a film based on the life of Lusia (Lucy) Mae Harris Stewart, a champion of US women's university basketball credited with changing the face of the sport in the 1970s. The imagery of the film shows a Delta State University, a Mississippi community, and a nation that supported Lucy's remarkable talent. At the same time, Confederate flags flew, there were no professional women's teams for her to play on after graduation, a…
“We The North”? Race, Nation, and the Multicultural Politics of Toronto’s First NBA Championship
The Toronto Raptors’ 2019 National Basketball Association (NBA) championship win, a first for the franchise and for a Canadian team, “turned hockey country into basketball nation” ( CBC Radio 2020 ). Canadians’ burgeoning embrace of the team and the sport seemed to point to a growing celebration of Blackness within the nation. However, we problematize the 2019 championship win to tell a more expansive story about how sport and national myths conc…
Critical Reflections on Physical Culture at the Edges of Empire
But How
Overexposed famous histories of Black people in the West often lead to mainstream oversimplification, relegate racial tensions to the past or elsewhere, and label them a closed chapter. These histories produce curated, uncontextualized grand narratives. The Canadian sport context is particularly fertile ground to explore the silencing of Blackness in national public histories. For instance, Jackie Robinson's 1946 debut with the Montreal Royals wa…
That’s Jean Lowe’
From the late 1930s through to the 1940s, Lowe remained a constant in the city’s sports pages. Yet, in 1946, she moved to the Southern United States to complete her education and did not reside in Canada again. Using Toronto’s White press media reports on Lowe, the present Black feminist analysis nuances a racialized woman’s tortuous journey to success, demonstrating that no amount of public acclaim could obfuscate raciality. Indeed, praise exist…
We Played Ball Just the Same’
Due to historical systemic subordination, few Black women’s histories are preserved in public archives and written records. In Canada, oral traditions’ prevalence in Black communities made written documentation rare, affording their histories less legitimacy in academia. Hence, Black women’s experiences are largely absent from national grand narratives about sport. By bridging the gap between dominant narratives and Black women’s marginal narrati…
Let’s (not) meet at the pool
While sport has been touted as a bridge for racial equality, racial discrimination has been as present in recreational and sporting spaces, as in any other public spaces. Discrimination in these spaces can thus inform racial relations in a society. Few Canadian studies have been conducted on the development of racial discourses in the context of recreational spaces, especially from a historical perspective. Through the lens of swimming, a histori…
John ‘Army’ Howard, Canada’s First Black Olympian
The early 1910s marked a turning point in Canadian immigration policy history. With the introduction of the Immigration Act of 1911, the Canadian state effectively declared black people, Asians, and most other people of colour to be unfit and unsuitable immigrants. Nation-building efforts encouraged a white Canada; as such, the Canadian Amateur Athletic administration approached the 1912 Games as an opportunity to attract ‘suitable’ white Europea…
We Played Ball Just the Same’
Due to historical systemic subordination, few Black women’s histories are preserved in public archives and written records. In Canada, oral traditions’ prevalence in Black communities made written documentation rare, affording their histories less legitimacy in academia. Hence, Black women’s experiences are largely absent from national grand narratives about sport. By bridging the gap between dominant narratives and Black women’s marginal narrati…
Let’s (not) meet at the pool
While sport has been touted as a bridge for racial equality, racial discrimination has been as present in recreational and sporting spaces, as in any other public spaces. Discrimination in these spaces can thus inform racial relations in a society. Few Canadian studies have been conducted on the development of racial discourses in the context of recreational spaces, especially from a historical perspective. Through the lens of swimming, a histori…
That’s Jean Lowe’
From the late 1930s through to the 1940s, Lowe remained a constant in the city’s sports pages. Yet, in 1946, she moved to the Southern United States to complete her education and did not reside in Canada again. Using Toronto’s White press media reports on Lowe, the present Black feminist analysis nuances a racialized woman’s tortuous journey to success, demonstrating that no amount of public acclaim could obfuscate raciality. Indeed, praise exist…
John ‘Army’ Howard, Canada’s First Black Olympian
The early 1910s marked a turning point in Canadian immigration policy history. With the introduction of the Immigration Act of 1911, the Canadian state effectively declared black people, Asians, and most other people of colour to be unfit and unsuitable immigrants. Nation-building efforts encouraged a white Canada; as such, the Canadian Amateur Athletic administration approached the 1912 Games as an opportunity to attract ‘suitable’ white Europea…
We Played Ball Just the Same’
Due to historical systemic subordination, few Black women’s histories are preserved in public archives and written records. In Canada, oral traditions’ prevalence in Black communities made written documentation rare, affording their histories less legitimacy in academia. Hence, Black women’s experiences are largely absent from national grand narratives about sport. By bridging the gap between dominant narratives and Black women’s marginal narrati…
Let’s (not) meet at the pool
While sport has been touted as a bridge for racial equality, racial discrimination has been as present in recreational and sporting spaces, as in any other public spaces. Discrimination in these spaces can thus inform racial relations in a society. Few Canadian studies have been conducted on the development of racial discourses in the context of recreational spaces, especially from a historical perspective. Through the lens of swimming, a histori…
That’s Jean Lowe’
From the late 1930s through to the 1940s, Lowe remained a constant in the city’s sports pages. Yet, in 1946, she moved to the Southern United States to complete her education and did not reside in Canada again. Using Toronto’s White press media reports on Lowe, the present Black feminist analysis nuances a racialized woman’s tortuous journey to success, demonstrating that no amount of public acclaim could obfuscate raciality. Indeed, praise exist…
But How
Overexposed famous histories of Black people in the West often lead to mainstream oversimplification, relegate racial tensions to the past or elsewhere, and label them a closed chapter. These histories produce curated, uncontextualized grand narratives. The Canadian sport context is particularly fertile ground to explore the silencing of Blackness in national public histories. For instance, Jackie Robinson's 1946 debut with the Montreal Royals wa…
“We The North”? Race, Nation, and the Multicultural Politics of Toronto’s First NBA Championship
The Toronto Raptors’ 2019 National Basketball Association (NBA) championship win, a first for the franchise and for a Canadian team, “turned hockey country into basketball nation” ( CBC Radio 2020 ). Canadians’ burgeoning embrace of the team and the sport seemed to point to a growing celebration of Blackness within the nation. However, we problematize the 2019 championship win to tell a more expansive story about how sport and national myths conc…
Critical Reflections on Physical Culture at the Edges of Empire
The Other Olympians
Imagine
The Queen's Gambit
The Queen of Basketball is a film based on the life of Lusia (Lucy) Mae Harris Stewart, a champion of US women's university basketball credited with changing the face of the sport in the 1970s. The imagery of the film shows a Delta State University, a Mississippi community, and a nation that supported Lucy's remarkable talent. At the same time, Confederate flags flew, there were no professional women's teams for her to play on after graduation, a…
Mark Your Player, Exploit the Space
The storying of the Canadian men’s national soccer team has established immigration, multiculturalism, and transnationalism as a linchpin of the team’s climb from relative obscurity. This was transparent in the framing of the team leading up to and during the team’s historic appearance at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, following a 36 year-long campaign to return to the tournament. The contemporary phenomenon of celebrating ‘outsiders,’ particu…
Sports, Gender, and Society (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (7 works) · American Sports and Literature (6 works) · History (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Canadian Identity and History (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works)