Andrea A Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 9507698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea A Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea A |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Unraveling Colonial Cartographies
A Project Toward Black Life
By primarily locating the study of Black people through the lens of victimhood and pathology, university research and teaching often reinforce the notion of Blackness as social, cultural, and economic deficit. Centring Black ideas, art, and imagination as critical to a reformulation of the racist logic of Western thought offers a model for engaging the histories of Black peoples in Canada that exceeds a simple anti-racism lens. Invoking the early…
“The Biggest Mistake You Ever Made Was Thinking That Nobody Cared about Me”
In this review of the 2022 performance of Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers, Andrea A. Davis and Carl E. James, from their respective disciplines in Black literary and cultural studies, education, and sociology, engage in a conversation about Makambe K. Simamba’s play. In their conversation, they unpack questions about Black spirituality, the social construction of gender as a raced category, and the difficulty of articulating anti-Bl…
“Our Home on Native Land”
Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'études canadiennes - Volume 57, Number/numéro 3, November/Novembre 2023
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Unraveling Colonial Cartographies
A Project Toward Black Life
By primarily locating the study of Black people through the lens of victimhood and pathology, university research and teaching often reinforce the notion of Blackness as social, cultural, and economic deficit. Centring Black ideas, art, and imagination as critical to a reformulation of the racist logic of Western thought offers a model for engaging the histories of Black peoples in Canada that exceeds a simple anti-racism lens. Invoking the early…
“The Biggest Mistake You Ever Made Was Thinking That Nobody Cared about Me”
In this review of the 2022 performance of Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers, Andrea A. Davis and Carl E. James, from their respective disciplines in Black literary and cultural studies, education, and sociology, engage in a conversation about Makambe K. Simamba’s play. In their conversation, they unpack questions about Black spirituality, the social construction of gender as a raced category, and the difficulty of articulating anti-Bl…
“Our Home on Native Land”
Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'études canadiennes - Volume 57, Number/numéro 3, November/Novembre 2023
Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Canadian Identity and History (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Racism (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Black British (1 work)