Charmaine A. Nelson

“Living Memory,”

“Canadian universities are really behind those in the United States in establishing academic departments in African-diaspora studies. Our countries have parallel histories in terms of patterns of settlement and of exploitation of Africans, yet we in Canada are in denial. To study black history is also to study Indigenous history and European history.” Charmaine A. Nelson is the 2017/18 William Lyon Mackenzie King visiting professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard University.