Black History Month is an opportunity to learn about and reflect on the legacy of Black communities, and celebrate their achievements and contributions in all aspects of society. With this in mind the Zoryan Institute and the University of Toronto Press are pleased to offer open access to a number of works published in Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, centred around issues pertaining to Black and African Diasporas, over the next month. Click on the links below to start learning today!

ANAND BERTRAND COMMISSIONG (2021). Where Is the Love? Race, Self-Exile, and a Kind of Reconciliation. Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, 21(1), 27-46. DOI: 10.3138/diaspora.21.1.2020-06-18

BENNETTA JULES-ROSETTE (2000). Identity Discourses and Diasporic Aesthetics in Black Paris: Community Formation and the Translation of Culture. Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, 9(1), 39-58.
DOI: 10.3138/diaspora.9.1.39

GLADYS M. FRANCIS (2021). Performing while Black: Disrupting Gender and Sexuality from Trinidad to Norway—The Artivism of Thomas Prestø. Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, 21(2), 279-296.
DOI: 10.3138/diaspora.21.2.2021.05.14.2

JAMELLA N. GOW (2021). Reworking Race, Nation, and Diaspora on the Margins. Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, 21(2), 209-230. DOI: 10.3138/diaspora.21.2.2021.05.04