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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My Unorthodox Path to Becoming a Professor
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Today, I am publicly known as Dr. Thompson or sometimes, Professor Thompson. Forty years ago, however, I was a kid in Scarborough (Toronto’s east end suburb), going to public school, riding the bus.
I...
Canada’s Black barbers and hair salons
Charles Duval’s barber shop, Collingwood, 1920s (Wilma Morrison fonds, F 4721, box B945923, image I0058983), Archives of Ontario
I wrote a book about Black beauty culture, and earlier this summer I appeared on FLOW 98.7 to talk about it. I...
What is the Tense of Technoculture History, Part 2
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The following is an excerpt from a keynote address given at Carleton University in 2025 in partnership with Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, as part of the Shannon Lecture Series tit...
What is the Tense of Technoculture History, Part 1
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The following is an excerpt from a keynote address given at Carleton University in 2025 in partnership with Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, as part of the Shannon Lecture Serie...
Academic Excerpt: "Brand Advertising in Contrast in the 1970s," Part 2
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This excerpt is from a book chapter in Canada’s 19th Century Black Press: Roots and Trajectories of Exceptional Communication and Intellectual Activism, edited by Claudine Bonner, Nina Reid-Maroney, and B...
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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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