Abolition. See also Emancipation; Reparations; Slavery

, 2, 3, 7, 28, 29, 33, 34, 49, 77

abolitionist movements

, 48

Activism. See also Antiracism; Artivism; Moments; Movement

, 14, 56, 57, 60, 62, 63, 67, 69–71, 73, 75, 76, 83–85, 88, 94

black women's activism

, 63, 76

differences in generations

, 66

revolution

, 76

Africville

, 65, 66, 86

Africville Museum

, 41

Halifax

, 39–41, 59

Philipsburg Proclamation of 1779

, 39

Allies, allyship

, 2, 4, 18, 23, 24, 66

anitafrika, d'bi.young. See also Black theatre

, 7, 76, 87

Anitafrika Method

, 71

Anita Stewart

, 71

biomyth monodrama

, 71

‘magick’

, 7

sankofa trilogy

, 72

Watah Theatre

, 71, 72

Word!Sound!Powah!

, 71–75

Antiblackness. See also Colonialism

, 4, 76

antiblack racism

, 24, 25, 93

antiblack violence

, 3, 18, 19, 33, 46, 53, 56, 65, 70, 74, 84, 85, 87, 88

Antiracism. See also Black Lives Matter (BLM); Decolonialism/decolonisation

, 12, 17, 61, 62

reactive

, 56, 70

resistance

, 6, 19, 73, 83, 86, 87

Artivism. See also anitafrika, d'bi.young; Dub poetry/performance

, 14, 15, 56–76, 78

activism

, 56, 57, 75, 76

art

, 57, 58, 71, 75, 76

Autoethnography

, 6, 17, 19

and discrimination

, 2, 61

Benevolence. See also Hospitality; Scott, Andrea

, 2, 40, 49, 55, 57, 81, 83, 94

goodwill

, 5

kindness

, 78

Bias. See also Racism; White supremacy

, 26, 54

in academia

, 52

unconscious

, 60

Black death. See also Walcott, Rinaldo; Sharpe, Christina

, 12, 14, 15, 25, 26, 29, 39, 44, 70, 76, 87

Black diaspora. See also Caribbean; Colonialism, European expansion

, 5, 13, 29, 30, 39, 57, 58, 66, 87

African diaspora

, 5

Caribbean diaspora

, 6, 30, 70

Black folx

, 2, 5–9, 11–15, 17, 18, 21–23, 25, 26, 29–31, 36, 39–42, 45, 48, 49, 52, 55–57, 59, 66, 68–70, 74, 76, 78, 82, 84–89, 92, 93

definition of folx

, 2

Black freedom/unfreedom. See also Emancipation; Walcott, Rinaldo

, 7, 14, 15, 19, 30, 33, 35, 36, 42, 55, 58, 59, 78, 82, 83, 92

Blacklist

, 44–46, 68

Black Lives Matter (BLM). See also Activism; Antiracism; Moments; Movement; Protest

, 18, 21–26, 29, 84–86

origins of

, 84

Blackness

, 4, 6, 7, 12–14, 28, 30, 46, 59, 71, 77, 78, 84

Black theatre. See also anitafrika, d'bi.young; Parris, Amanda; Scott, Andrea

, 59

Black Twitter

, 10

Black women

, 17, 53, 63, 66, 76, 77, 85

in academia

, 52

Black women's theatre

, 59

in Canada

, 63

motherhood

, 8, 73

British Empire. See also Colonialism, European expansion; Imperialism; Slavery

, 8, 9, 11, 37, 91

history of

, 5

relationship to slavery

, 5, 9, 55

Canada. See also Africville; Toronto

, 5, 6, 8, 12, 13, 21, 30, 40, 41, 52, 59–63, 66, 68–71, 73, 79, 80, 84

artivism in

, 69, 71

Caribbean diaspora in

, 6, 12, 30, 70

dub poetry in

, 71

Capital/capitalism. See also Property; Reparations

, 5, 28, 29, 32, 35, 36, 41, 42, 51, 84, 93

benefits of

, 29, 48

funding

, 32

property

, 29, 86, 94

slavery and

, 3, 33

Caribbean. See also Jamaica

, 9, 12, 13, 30, 34, 35

Caribbean Canadian

, 6, 12, 30

Diaspora

, 70

Trinidad

, 5, 6, 8

West Indies

, 34

Chin, Staceyann

, 12

Crossfire: A Litany for Survival

, 11

‘My Grandmother’s Tongue'

, 11

Colonialism. See also Antiblackness; Decolonialism/decolonization; Slavery

, 8, 10, 32, 35, 43, 50, 68, 76, 88

European expansion

, 5

COVID-19. See also White saviour myth

, 53

health inequality

, 50

Creativity

, 62, 70

in the arts

, 56

and community

, 70, 92, 94

Cultural studies. See also Interdisciplinarity; Moments; Politics

, 12, 13, 17–21

dirtiness of

, 20

heritage

, 61

historical events

, 22

identity

, 37, 46, 53, 68

pop culture

, 28

social media

, 20, 22

and text

, 19–21

Decolonialism/decolonisation. See also Antiracism; Colonialism; Reparations

, 3, 17, 53

resistance

, 6

Deconstruction. See also Derrida, Jacques; Poststructuralism

, 3, 4, 12, 21, 80

Derrida, Jacques. See also Deconstruction

the gift

, 2–5, 11, 40, 80, 83

Given Time. 1: Counterfeit Money

, 4

hospitality

, 82

of hospitality

, 80

Dub poetry/performance. See also anitafrika, d'bi.young; Jamaica

, 61, 70, 71, 75

Economy. See also Capital/capitalism; HM Treasury; Property

, 5, 20, 29, 30, 34–36, 40, 41, 62, 63, 66, 79, 81, 83, 92, 93

debt

, 3, 5, 29, 30, 58, 77, 78

and the gift

, 5, 83

historical analysis of

, 13, 30

market

, 27–29, 44, 45

Martin Luther King Jr

, 26, 41, 59

moral

, 28

Emancipation. See also Slavery

, 3–5, 7, 8, 14, 19, 30, 35, 40, 42, 48, 75

abolition

, 2–3

freedom

, 35, 40

liberation

, 14, 30, 42

Emergent events. See also Moments

, 60, 62

Kamboureli, Smaro

, 57, 60, 61, 65

re/activism

, 57, 60, 61, 69

Equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI)

, 13

diversity

, 3, 54, 62, 70

equality

, 53–55, 85, 89

in higher education

, 55

inclusion

, 2, 54, 55, 85

Erasure; black erasure. See also Black Lives Matter (BLM); Colonialism; Writing Thru Race; Zong! Massacre

, 10–12, 26, 27, 29, 62, 84, 85

Gift, the. See also Derrida, Jacques

, 11, 21, 34, 40, 44, 49, 61, 77, 80, 83

credit

, 5

Derrida On

, 2–5, 11, 40, 80, 83

destruction of

, 11

and emancipation

, 3–5, 14, 30

exchange

, 5, 40, 49

and ingratitude

, 11

reciprocity

, 5

and white supremacy

, 4, 30, 77, 89

Gratitude. See also Benevolence; Gift, the; Slavery

, 48, 49, 55, 59, 80, 89, 91

appreciation

, 91

and colonialism/British Empire

, 10

expectations of

, 2, 4, 48, 49

and the gift

, 2, 3

performance of

, 49

requirement of

, 10, 48

of slaves/in abolition

, 48, 49

thankfulness

, 49

and trauma

, 35

Halifax, Nova Scotia. See also Africville

, 39–41, 59

Kwacha House

, 66

Health inequality

, 50

Higher education. See also Research funding (UK)

, 6, 52, 55

academic

, 6

research

, 55

university

, 6, 52

History/historiography. See also Longue durée; Moments; Narrative; Slavery

, 3, 9–15, 18–20, 26, 28–30, 33, 35–37, 39, 40, 44, 45, 50, 56, 58, 62, 67, 69–71, 73, 77, 86–88, 91, 93

events

, 22, 28

is now

, 6, 11, 13, 14, 29, 58

narrativisation of

, 10, 18, 19

past

, 5, 9, 18

and violence

, 3, 9, 56

HM Treasury. See also Livingstone, David; Reparations

, 31

#FridayFact

, 30

hooks, bell

, 93

Belonging: A Culture of Place

, 92

Hospitality. See also Derrida, Jacques; Scott, Andrea

, 78, 80

benevolence

, 81

exchange

, 91

generosity

, 80–81

Identity

, 37, 46, 53, 68

Imperialism

, 35

Inequality. See also Equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI); Health inequality

, 2, 42, 52, 66, 93

discrimination

, 2

racial disparities

, 13, 52, 93

Ingratitude. See also Gift, the; Gratitude; White generosity

, 11, 14, 44, 46, 48, 55, 56, 58, 78, 82, 84, 94

ungrateful

, 14, 55

uppity

, 48

Interdisciplinarity. See also Cultural studies

, 20

Intersectional. See also Black women; Identity

, 87

Jamaica. See also anitafrika, d'bi.young; Caribbean; Dub poetry/performance

, 11, 28, 70–73, 75

Kenya. See also Queen Elizabeth II

, 9, 88, 89, 91

Mau Mau uprising

, 9, 88, 89

Livingstone, David. See also HM Treasury; Reparations

, 32

missionary

, 32

‘Slavers Revenging Their Losses’

, 32

Longue durée. See also Black Lives Matter (BLM); History/historiography; Moments

, 18, 19

Loot (Apple TV+). See also White saviour myth

, 51

Lubrin, Canisia

, 77, 78, 87

The Dyzgraphxst: A Poem; ‘XX’

, 77

Memory

collective

, 21

and diaspora

, 11

erasure

, 11

limits of

, 28

performance and

, 9, 10

temporalization of

, 11

Microaggressions. See also Bias; Racism; White Supremacy

, 53

Moments. See also Emergent events; Memory; Movement

, 1, 4, 5, 7, 11, 13, 30, 33, 43–46, 56–67, 69, 70, 72–74, 76, 77, 80, 83–94

momentous

, 19, 22, 91

momentum

, 19, 22, 56, 58, 63

take a

, 1, 17, 19, 26, 86

as text

, 13, 17–26

theory of

, 19, 20, 44, 57, 64, 69

Moodie, Andrew. See also Black theatre

, 59

Riot

, 59

Movement. See also Artivism; Black Lives Matter (BLM); Emancipation; Moments; Parris, Amanda; Re/activism

, 11, 12, 14, 18–22, 25, 26, 30, 42, 56–60, 63–65, 67, 69, 70, 74, 76, 77, 83–85, 87, 93

abolitionist

, 48

Civil Rights

, 19, 26, 42

critical moments

, 19

Kier Starmer blunder

, 18, 22, 24, 25

Narrative. See also History/historiography; Moments; Text, textuality, textual analysis; White generosity

, 3–7, 9, 11–14, 19, 20, 26, 28, 29, 33, 34, 36, 37, 39, 40, 42, 44, 45, 48–51, 54, 56–59, 64, 67, 72, 76–80, 82–85, 87–89, 91, 93, 94

account

, 19

change the

, 76, 83

discourse

, 20–21

plot

, 39

story

, 9, 64

Olufemi, Lola

experiments

, 86

Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

, 86

failure

, 86, 92

Oppression. See also Antiracism; Black death; Colonialism; Racism; Slavery

, 2, 6, 7, 12, 14, 18, 20, 29, 39, 43, 58, 62, 67, 69, 71, 85, 88

colonial inheritance

, 7

systemic

, 71

Parris, Amanda. See also Black theatre

, 87

the movement

, 63

Other Side of the Game

, 63, 65, 70

a sentence of movements

, 63, 64

Performance. See also Black theatre; Dub poetry; Memory

, 6–8, 10, 12, 59, 62, 66, 69, 71, 81

anthropology of

, 69

of memory

, 9

studies

, 57

Performative. See also Allyship; Narratives; White generosity

, 3, 31, 58

Philip, M. nourbeSe

, 8–10, 12, 27, 29, 36–38, 69, 87

Ebora

, 37

Frontiers; Selected essays and writings on racism and culture, 1984-1992

, 68, 69

‘not feeling too British today’

, 8

Zong!

, 27–29, 36, 37, 93

Police violence. See also Antiblackness; Black death

, 26

American problem

, 24, 26

brutality

, 19, 24, 65, 84

custody

, 7, 25, 26

defund the police

, 24

race-based

, 24, 26

stop and search

, 25, 26

Politics

, 4, 20–22, 28, 29, 33, 35, 56, 57, 59–61, 63, 71–74

black UK MPs

, 86

David Lammy

, 46–48, 80

Keir Starmer

, 18, 22–26, 86

Ron DeSantis

, 48

Poststructuralism. See also Deconstruction; Text, textuality, textual analysis

, 4, 21

discourse analysis

, 21

Property. See also Abolition; Capital/capitalism; Reparations; Walcott, Rinaldo

, 3, 13, 14, 29, 30, 32, 33, 36, 40, 45, 48, 86, 93, 94

black folx as

, 13, 29

Protest

, 24, 62, 68–70, 83, 84, 88, 89

and Black Lives Matter

, 21, 24, 84

and police violence

, 84

against the ROM

, 68, 69

and whiteness

, 84

Queen Elizabeth II. See also Johnson, Marcia; Kenya, Mau Mau uprising; Philip, M. nourbeSe

, 8–10, 88, 91, 92

The Crown

, 88, 90, 91

kneeling

, 90, 91

monarchy

, 10, 11, 89

Racism. See also Antiracism; Black death; Colonialism; Oppression

, 4, 6, 13, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 35, 40, 48, 52, 55, 56, 58, 61, 62, 66, 68, 69, 84, 93

discrimination

, 2, 61

everyday racism

, 12, 14

institutional racism

, 12, 48

racial disparity

, 93

Re/activism. See also Antiracism; Emergent events; Moment

, 14, 57, 58, 60, 61, 65, 69

black activism

, 57, 61

dangers of

, 67

Reparations. See also Abolition; Africville; Black freedom/unfreedom; Colonialism; HM Treasury; Property; Slavery

, 3, 8, 13, 14, 27–42, 44, 58, 93

calls for

, 3, 14, 30

poetics of

, 29

restorative justice

, 35

Slave Compensation Act 1837

, 30

Research Funding (UK). See also Black women; Equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI); Higher education

, 55

National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)

, 53

Research Excellence Framework (REF)

, 55

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

, 53–55

Resistance

, 6, 19, 73, 83, 86

activism

, 83

antiracism

, 56, 62

Black Lives Matter

, 87

storytelling as

, 11, 75

Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)

, 67–69

Into the Heart of Africa

, 67, 69

‘Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art’

, 69

Scott, Andrea. See also Benevolence; Hospitality; Slavery

, 82, 83, 87

Better Angels: A Parable

, 78–81, 83

economic slavery

, 81

Segregation. See also Discrimination; Emancipation; Racism; Slavery

, 19, 35, 39, 62, 66, 84

Sharpe, Christina. See also Colonialism; Slavery

, 35, 70, 93

making post-slavery subjects

, 35

Monstrous Intimacies

, xvi, 87

In the Wake

, 93

wake work

, 87

Slavery. See also Abolition; Colonialism; Reparations; Scott, Andrea

, 2–5, 7, 9, 12, 14, 29, 30, 32–35, 39, 43, 48, 49, 78, 79, 81, 82, 88, 89, 93

modern slavery

, 78, 79

transatlantic slave trade

, 14, 15, 32–35, 78, 86, 93

Social justice

, 14

Starmer, Sir Keir

, 22, 24–26

and Black Lives Matter

, 18, 22–26, 86

and racism within the UK Labour Party

, 18, 25

Storytelling

, 7, 11, 73, 75

as resistance/revolution

, 11

Text, textuality, textual analysis. See also Cultural studies; Deconstruction; Poststructuralism

, 4, 13, 17–21, 26, 28, 29, 31, 36, 37, 44, 49, 69, 70, 72, 73, 77

moment as text

, 13, 17–26

Toronto. See also Canada

, 6, 8, 39, 58, 59, 63–65, 67, 69, 71–75, 79, 81, 83, 84

Black theatre in

, 59

Trauma. See also Black death; Violence

, 8, 13–15, 30, 33, 35, 37, 40, 48, 71, 93, 94

and Empire

, 9, 88

and slavery

, 9, 78

Ungrateful

, 3, 10, 13, 14, 43–56, 77–94

ingratitude

, 14, 55

Okwonga, Musa (‘The Ungrateful Country’)

, 55

United Kingdom

, 1, 6, 12, 13, 24, 25, 30, 40, 48, 52–55, 86, 92

British Empire

, 5, 8, 9, 11, 37, 55, 91

government of

, 30, 34, 39

higher education in

, 6, 52, 55

London

, 1, 6, 10, 30, 33, 58, 89, 90

reparations and

, 8, 30, 31, 33, 35

royal family of

, 89

slavery and

, 5, 8, 9, 12, 30, 33–35, 49

Violence; police brutality. See also Black death; Trauma

, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 17–19, 22–24, 34–37, 39, 46, 50, 51, 55, 56, 62, 65, 69, 70, 73, 74, 76, 82, 84, 85, 87, 88, 93

Walcott, Rinaldo

, 5, 7, 29, 36, 39, 58, 70

on black death

, 29, 39

on black freedom

, 7, 58

BlackLife: Post-BLM and the struggle for freedom

, 29

The Long Emancipation: Toward Black Freedom

, 6

On property: Policing, prisons, and the call for abolition

, 29

White generosity. See also Benevolence; Gratitude

, 1–15, 17, 29, 30, 40–42, 46, 55–59, 61, 66, 67, 69, 76–83, 87–89, 91, 93

and allyship

, 2, 4, 24, 66

and EDI

, 2, 3, 13, 53–55, 62, 70, 85, 89

and the gift

, 2–5, 11, 14, 21, 30, 34, 40, 44, 49, 61, 77, 80, 83, 89

hypocrisy of

, 55, 66

and threat

, 58, 62

and white saviourism

, 50, 51

Whiteness. See also White supremacy

, 2–14, 23, 26, 28, 29, 32, 33, 35, 36, 42–44, 48, 51, 53, 55, 56, 58, 61, 62, 77–79, 81, 84, 85, 87

as distinct from white people

, 69

invisibility of

, 54

White saviour myth

, 43, 49, 50

non-government organisations (NGOs)

, 50, 51

voluntourism

, 51

White Saviour Industrial Complex

, 51

White supremacy. See also Colonialism; Racism; Slavery; Whiteness

, 3, 4, 7, 10, 13–15, 17–19, 26, 29, 30, 43, 44, 52, 53, 55, 66, 77, 83, 85, 89

Writing Thru Race. See also Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)

, 61–63, 71, 85, 86

Zong! Massacre. See also Philip, M. nourbeSe; Slavery

, 28, 86, 93

Gregson v. Gilbert

, 28, 29, 36