Bibliography
Students protest against racism outside the Henry F. Hall Building at SGWU, 1969. Source: Concordia University Records Management and Archives
Articles and scholarly journals
- Austin, David. “All roads led to Montreal: Black power, the Caribbean, and the Black radical tradition in Canada” The Journal of African American History, 92(4) (2007), pp. 516-539
- Colclough, Wes, and Cynthia I. Hammond. “The Henry Foss Hall Building, Montreal: From Riots to Gardens in Forty Years.” Palimpsest III: The Dialectics of Montreal’s Public Spaces. (2010)
- Cummings, Ronald, and Nalini Mohabir, eds. “Special Issue: Legacies of the 1969 Sir George Williams Student Protests” Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 44 (March 2022).
- Greenidge, Adaeze, and Levi Gahman. “Roots, rhizomes and resistance: remembering the Sir George Williams student uprising” Race & Class, 61(2) (2019), pp. 27-42
- Kiven Tunteng, P. “Racism and the Montreal Computer Incident of 1969.” Race, 14(3) (1973), 229-240.
- West, Michael. O. “History vs. Historical Memory Rosie Douglas, Black Power on Campus, and the Canadian Color Conceit” Palimpsest, 6(2) (2017), 178-224.
Books and book chapters
- Austin, David. Fear of a Black Nation: Race, sex, and security in sixties Montreal. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2013
- Cummings, Ronald, and Nalini Mohabir, eds. The fire that time: Transnational Black Radicalism and the Sir George Williams Occupation. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2021
- Eber, Dorothy. The Computer Centre Party: Canada Meets Black Power. Montreal: Tundra Books, 1969
- Forsythe, Dennis. Let the Niggers Burn!: The Sir George Williams University Affair and Its Caribbean Aftermath. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1971
- Martel, Marcel. ‘Riot’ at Sir George Williams: Giving Meaning to Student Dissent. In Debating Dissent: Canada and the sixties, Eds. Lara Campbell, Dominique Clément, Gregory S. Kealey. Toronto University of Toronto Press, 2012: pp. 97-114.
Dissertations
- Hébert, Paul. C. "A Microcosm of the General Struggle": Black Thought and Activism in Montreal, 1960-1969. Doctoral dissertation. University of Michigan, 2015
- Irwin, Ashley. Debasing Dissent: The Role of The News Media in the Devaluation of Black Canadian Activism. Doctoral dissertation. University of Waterloo, 2020
- Richter, Steve. From Self-Discipline to Self-Realization: Emotion Management in the Montreal Race Riots of 1969 and 2008. Master’s thesis. Concordia University, 2011
Crowds gathered outside of the Hall Building on Mackay Street. Source: Concordia University Records and Archives Management
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