Afua Cooper

Impact Award: Connection

Principal investigators: Ostashewski, Marcia

Keywords: ethnomusicology; dance; ethnography; communities; performance; media; intercultural; intersectionality; gender; ethnicity; interactive multimedia; collaborative methods; Central/Eastern European; immigrant; diaspora; Indigenous

Transforming the Lives of Black Children and Youths in Canada

Keywords: Adolescent; African; Black; Caribbean; Child; Children; Youth

To Protect and Serve Whom? The Whiteness of Canadian Policing

Principal investigators: Yankey, Manzah-Kyentoh

Keywords: policing; race; racism; whiteness; critical race theory; Canada

Past/Future: African Canadian History, Arts and Culture in STEM Education

Principal investigators: Cooper, Afua P.

Keywords: African Canadian history; education; Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

Trans-Atlantic Pilgrimage: African Histories, Poetry, and Music

Principal investigators: Cooper, Afua P.

Keywords: Black history; people of African ancestry and history; music; poetry; community engagement; research-creation; collaboration; performance; film; Mande; Canada; dub poetry; balafon

Imagining the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Canada Series

Principal investigators: Ostashewski, Marcia

Keywords: music; curation; arts management; record production; community engagement; music education; Indigenous collaborative research; cultural diversity; anti-racism; decolonization; reconciliation; Canada

Community, empowerment and leadership in Black Canada Conference

Principal investigators: Cooper, Afua P.

Keywords: alcohol; temperance; narcotic drug regulation; tobacco; addiction; cultural studies; popular culture; history of medicine

Where are you from: Canadian slavery and the reclamation of an historical black presence in Canada

Principal investigators: Nelson, Charmaine A.

Keywords: black Canadian studies; black/African-Canadian; race; racism; colonialism; imperialism; trans Atlantic slavery; Canadian slavery; community; legacy; memory; resistance; national identity