UWindsor history alumna Funké Aladejebi (BA 2007) will explore the ways in which Black women’s stories tell not only of a collective Black Canadian experience marked by sexism, separation, and racial discrimination, but also of individual actions and affirmations of professionalism and resistive pedagogical approaches that challenged assumptions about Black existences in Canada in her free public presentation “Black Women’s Oral Histories and Contestations in the Great White North,” Thursday, Oct. 20.

Dr. Aladejebi is an assistant professor of history at the University of Toronto and co-editor of Unsettling the Great White North: Black Canadian History.

“Situating Black women’s individual and collective choices, my presentation considers the processes of documenting oral herstories as a political and restorative practice in writing about Black Canada,” she says.

The event will begin at 10 a.m. in room 2100, Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation, and is presented in observance of Women’s History Month by the Department of History in conjunction with Women’s and Gender Studies in the School of Social Work.