Harlem on the Prairies: How Blackness is harmfully used as shorthand
For more information about CBCs First Person stories, please see . To be a Black person living in Saskatchewan is to be perceived as an ephemeral anachronism — at best understood in relation to the groups of refugees moving through or the odd highly-skilled immigrant professional who, for some reason, decided to stay. At worst, to be a Black person living in Saskatchewan is to be a punchline, a joke. Any other history of Blackness in the Prairies doesnt compute, although there are two cen...
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