RésuméLa communauté noire d'Africville, à Halifax en Nouvelle-Écosse, a été démantelée par la force durant les années 1960 en vertu d'un programme de «rénovation urbaine». Cela faisait longtemps que les gens de cet endroit demandaient une reconnaissance juridique de leur collectivité et de meilleurs services communautaires et services de sécurité, comme des canalisations d'eau et d'égout, et une protection policière. Cet article examine de quelle façon la localité d'Africville a été privée des services en question et est devenue un bidonville, et aussi comment on s'est servi d'une telle situation pour justifier son élimination. La localité qui était autrefois Africville a été transformée en un parc public, mais elle reste un sujet de contestation et de commémoration. La ville de Halifax a toujours rejeté les demandes d'indemnisations et a utilisé des manœuvres juridiques pour faire taire la résistance. Ce texte cherche à montrer de quelle façon la ville de Halifax a utilisé son pouvoir de réglementation pour déloger des gens. Il montre aussi comment nous pouvons nous souvenir de ces pratiques et de leurs conséquences. Il fait surtout valoir le besoin de contextualiser juridiquement l'histoire d'Africville, compte tenu de l'interaction complexe entre la pauvreté, le racisme, et les narrations sur la justice.
This essay addresses the multiple and interlocking ways in which the criminalization and racialization of the poor, Black community of Africville, Nova Scotia, contributed centrally to its destruction by the City of Halifax during the 1960s. The essay examines a variety of dominant sources, including urban planning studies, academic projects, media reports, and city-commissioned documents that together comprise a body of racialized knowledge about Africville and Black communities in general in this era. This body of knowledge, the author argues, employs discourses of racial inferiority, criminality, and social deviance of the poor, to construct the community as a slum in need of removal.
This article presents the results of a series of conversations between two social scientists who do research with socially marginalized women who have breast cancer. The paper highlights emergent themes from these discussions, including our reflections about power relations and privilege, as well as facets of identity that come into play in our work, including race, class, gender, cultural capital, and personal life histories. We reflect on the responsibilities we feel within our work, which has social change as its end goal. The article considers several key questions, including: How do our subjectivities and identities influence the choices we have made in our work? How do these identities and their meanings change over time, and how is this incorporated in the work? How does reflection on these issues inform, challenge and change our research and its outcomes? Finally, we reflect on how our debriefing with one another has served as a reminder that factors influencing research processes and outcomes are larger and more intimately interwoven than is often apparent.I wonder … what can't I see in the transcripts, given where I'm from? (Judy)
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