Name: FIFSW Lunch & Learn: Black History Month
Start: 2020-02-11T12:15:00-05:00
End: 2020-02-11T13:15:00-05:00
Location: Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work

FIFSW Lunch & Learn: Black History Month

The Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work is Canada's first school of social work and is distinguished by its emphasis on the integration of research and practice in both the classroom and practicum education. Acclaimed for collaborative, interprofessional education at the master's and doctoral levels, our graduates are  practictioners and leaders of proven ability, initiative and effectiveness. The Faculty promotes well-being and equity from early childhood to the last stages of life by graduating knowledgeable and skilled practitioners, researchers and policy makers.

Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work

Blackness by Gaslight: Empire and Diasporic Memory in the Aftermath of Slavery

<p>Melanie J. Newton is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto. She is the author of  The Children of Africa in the Colonies: Free People of Color in Barbados in the Age of Emancipation (Baton Louisiana State University Press, 2008) and other scholarly articles and book chapters on gender, slavery and slave emancipation. Recent and forthcoming publications include Melanie J. Newton, “Returns to a Native Land? Indigeneity and Decolonization in the Anglophone Caribbean” (Small Axe vol. 41, July 2013, pp. 108-122) and Stefanie Kennedy and Melanie J. Newton, “The Hauntings of Slavery: Colonialism and the Disabled Body in the Caribbean,” in Shaun Grech and Karen Soldatic eds., Disability in the Global South (Springer, 2017). She is also the co-editor, with Matthew Smith, of two Small Axe special issues on “Caribbean Historiography” (43 and 44, March and July 2014). She has served on the editorial boards of the journals Small Axe and British Studies. Her current research project is entitled This Island’s Mine: Indigeneity in the Caribbean Atlantic World.</p>

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