Browsing by Subject "African Nova Scotians"
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Architecture as Reparation: Re-establishing a Sense of Belonging for the Black Community in Halifax
(2023-07-13)This thesis focuses on a historic African Nova Scotian community that currently faces erasure due to gentrification along Gottingen Street in Halifax’s North End. Black communities in Nova Scotia, from early migration to ... -
Labour, Enslavement, and Indigenous Space: Liverpool, Nova Scotia in the Atlantic World, 1759-1812
(2022-08-30)This thesis reconceptualizes the Planter and Loyalist periods around Liverpool, Nova Scotia, from 1759 to 1812. Rather than privileging the American Revolutionary War, it emphasises Indigenous space and Black people to ... -
Redressing the Past to Repair the Present: The Role of Property Law in Creating and Exacerbating Racial Disparities in Wealth and Poverty in Nova Scotia
(2021-12-02)For over 200 years African Nova Scotians have been fighting to confirm legal title to the land on which their ancestors were settled. In 2020, the Nova Scotia Supreme Court remarked “the lack of clear title and the segregated ... -
Survival of an African Nova Scotian Community : Up the Avenue, Revisited
(1998-09)This is a sociohistorical project that uses the case study of an African Nova Scotian community to explore the community from two perspectives. Firstly, the relies on a 'traditional' conception of community as developed ...