Fieldnotes in Black
Dr. Cheryl ThompsonDropping every Thursday at 1pm EST - thoughtful essays on race, history, media, and the performing arts
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Toronto's Sankofa Square, Part 1
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Over the past few months, Toronto’s most known public square has once again become a hot-button issue. For some, it is the perfect example of political correctness gone amuck (its name changed a few years...
How I survived and thrived as a Black grad student
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Earlier this week I gave an interview to a student newspaper at McGill, and while the topic was about something else, it really brought back memories of how I made it through my time there, as a Black graduate...
Subway Canada's "SubDog" a throwback to early 2000s "Whassup" culture
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A few weeks ago during a World Cup commercial break, Subway Canada debuted its “SubDog” commercial, and it took me back, but not in a good way.
In the 15 second ad spot, an Asian guy wearing a Toronto...
Black women are critiqued for wearing bonnets in public, but there are bonnet-wearing women in museums
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I was recently on a Toronto radio station, FlOW 98.7 fm to talk about the history of Black hair, and we got onto the subject of Black women and hair bonnets.
It made me recall some of the conversations...
Fieldnotes in Black: Are Harlequin Novels Racist?
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First, I’ve been away for a while, but I have relaunched my Substack under a new name - Fieldnotes in Black. This new name signals several things.
- A focus on sharing the writing journey in terms of...
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Dr. Cheryl Thompson holds the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Black Expressive Culture and Creativity at Toronto Metropolitan University, and is the author of four books on race, performance, and cultural history in Canada.
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