Rachel Zellars

The 1917 Halifax Explosion and Structural Anti-Blackness in Times of Crisis

April 14, 2020April 11, 2020 Rachel Zellars Canada, Historical Memory

Last fall, two local researchers from Halifax, Nova Scotia published their original findings of racial disparities in the relief efforts

Refusing the Biopolitical State: An Interview with Nathalie Batraville

November 6, 2019November 6, 2019 Rachel Zellars African Diaspora, biopolitics, black feminism, black radical tradition, Black women, Canada, education, Gender, Haiti, pedagogy, sexuality

In a first-of-its-kind study undertaken by political scientist Malinda Smith at University of Alberta in 2018, Smith found that Black professors

Rethinking Black Life on Turtle Island

March 27, 2019August 12, 2022 Rachel Zellars African Diaspora, Canada, Resistance, slavery

The history of Black peoples in Canada prior to the mid-nineteenth century is a complex and transnational story. In popular

Transness As A Category For Possibility

December 4, 2018December 7, 2018 Rachel Zellars #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackonBothSides, Gender

*This post is part of our online roundtable on C. Riley Snorton’s Black on Both Sides. The author discusses the second chapter: ‘Trans Capable:

‘The Captive’s Quest for Freedom’: An Interview with Historian Richard Blackett

November 16, 2018November 20, 2018 Rachel Zellars black protest, Canada, fugitivity, law, slave trade, slavery

In today’s post, Rachel Zellars, contributor for Black Perspectives, interviews historian Richard Blackett, about his new book, The Captive’s Quest for Freedom: Fugitive

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