Price: $39.95
Page Count: 266
Publication Date: November 2023
ISBN: 978-1-77258-467-7
This is a comprehensive and informative book. It demonstrates the institutional and systemic forms of discrimination, racism, inequalities and injustices which Covid-19 and its variants have unmasked ‘in living colour’.
- Cecille DePass PhD, Associate Professor Emerita, University of Calgary and Recipient, CIESC, David Wilson Award for Excellence.
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the multi-dimensional traumas and challenges that exist across the globe for Black lives. But just as these challenges and difficulties existed, so did the multifaceted ways in which we hold and express our global resiliencies and connections. Black People’s Resilience During COVID-19 is an intimate diverse look at the ways Black people thrive, connect and heal even in times of difficulty and despair.
- Amma Gyamfowa, RSW, MSW, Founder of Womanist Healing Services
Acknowledgments 4
A Note about Language and Terms 5
Why this Book 6
PART 1: Navigating and Resisting Challenges 11
COVID-19’s Role in Disrupting the Myth of Resilience 12
Grieving during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Burial Rituals Among African Caribbean Mothers Living
in Canada 29
Navigating COVID-19 Nursing Home Care Restrictions: Who Is Going to Visit Mama? 48
Where Did Daddy Go? Reflections of an Adult Daughter of a Father with Dementia during
COVID. 63
Seeking Tenure in the United States: Confessions of a Black Dance Professor 66
Part 2: Individual and Collective Activism 79
Black Queer Identities and Pandemic Survival Experiences in Canada 80
Intimate Partner Violence and Domestic Violence in the United Kingdom 90
Ottawa-led Coalition Helps Rescue 41 Black International Students from Ukraine 97
Supporting Care Leavers’ Resilience through Innovative Community-based Practice in Jamaica 100
More than Just Food: Exploring the Intersection of COVID-19, Food Insecurity, and Black Communities in Canada
Placemaking in a Pandemic: Beating the Odds, Buying Properties, and Starting Over 134
Employment, Self-employment, and Entrepreneurship in Nigeria 135
Overcoming Over-encumbered: A Toronto University Student’s Experience 148
Sistah Circle: Black Women’s Stories of Pregnancy, Birth and Support During COVID-19…… …156
COVID-19 Impacts, Resistance, and Strategies: An Intersectional, Global Review 173
Dealing with Museum Educational Tours as Heritage Knowledge Sharing Practices in South Africa during the COVID Pandemic 201
Part 3: Poetry 218
Corona Reign 219
School during COVID 222
Move on Heartache 223
A Caribbean Caregiver Speaks 226
Black Lives Do Matter 231
This Will End 232
Epilogue 234
Author Biographies 243
Dr. Delores V. Mullings rests on the shoulders of her African ancestor who have paved the way enabling her to be the first among many firsts. She is the first Black person, and only Black woman and mother to be hired in the School of Social Work and appointed to a senior administrative position at Memorial University. Her scholarship explores, mothering and parenting using critical pedagogies, including, anti-Black racism, Africentric theory and critical race theory.
Dr. Olasumbo Adelakun is an Adjunct Professor at St. Bonaventure University teaching Global Leadership, an independent consultant and author. She has served as an assistant editor for various academic books and book chapters. Having lived on three continents, her penchant for improving the life experiences of others is reflected in her work as an educator, commitment to studying challenging human conditions, and helping to create opportunities to provide a voice and hope for change.
Dr. Jennifer Clarke a registered social worker, consultant, and clinical anti-racism trainer whose practice is centred in Africentric, trauma-informed, and anti-Black racism perspectives. Her teaching and research are grounded in anti-oppression, anti-racism, and anti-Black racism perspectives through which she explores and deconstructs the colonial, racial, and gender power relations. She has received several research grants and awards, and a Co-Editor of the recently published book Todays Youth and Mental Health: Hope, Power and Resilience (2018).
