Resources
Razing Africville: A Geography of Racism (Print) by Call Number: Fennell STACKS FC2346.9 .N4 N45 2008Publication Date: 2008
- "Panthers or Thieves": Racialized Knowledge and the Regulation of Africville2011
This essay addresses the multiple and interlocking ways in which the criminalization and racialization of the poor, Black community of Africville, Nova Scotia, contributed centrally to its destruction by the City of Halifax during the 1960s. - Being forced to leave my home in Africville was hard. But 60 years later, I feel a different loss2023
Part of CBC's First Person Series, this article is written by Paula Grant-Smith, a former resident of Africville. She is featured in "Claiming Space," the eighth episode of Black Life: Untold Stories. - What We Talk About When We Talk About Africville2018
The article discusses the implications of the destruction of the Africville neighborhood, an African Canadian area of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- Africville MuseumThe exhibits within the Africville Museum invite visitors to walk through the history of Africville, from thriving village on the banks of the Bedford Basin to the dislocation. The Museum is the first stage of the Africville Project, which will later include an Interpretive Centre.
- The Story of AfricvilleCanadian Museum For Human Rights
- AfricvilleBritannica
- Africville: A Community Destroyed (Audio duration 55 minutes)
This link contains audio for the episode of Rewind with Michael Enright and uses materials from the CBC archives to chronicle the story of Africville. - Remember Africville (Video duration 35 minutes)
Former residents, their descendants and some of the decision-makers, speak out and, with the help of archival photographs and films, tell the story of that painful relocation.