Migration, Memory, and the Making of Black Barbadian Identity | Exploring Caribbean History
Dis a Fi Mi History Podcast: Explore Caribbean Ancestry & CulturePlay episode
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Season 8, Episode 1 of the Dis A Fi Mi History Podcast delves into significant themes within Caribbean history, focusing on Black Barbadian migration to Canada. Featuring Dr. Christopher Stuart-Taylor and his book Flying Fish in the Great White North, this episode explores how colonialism, kinship ties, and education shaped these deliberate migratory journeys. These movements deeply impacted family genealogy, reshaped heritage, and forged new identities of belonging within the diaspora.
Listeners will gain insight into how migration histories, preserved in archives, letters, and family memories, continue to inform our understanding of resilience and identity. The episode invites reflection on how family history intertwines with larger historical forces and the ongoing efforts toward equity, diversity, and inclusion within Caribbean and diaspora communities.
BIO:
Christopher Stuart Taylor is the University of Waterloo's Associate Vice-President, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism.
Dr. Taylor completed his PhD at Western University (Canada) in History and Migration & Ethnic Relations (MER), and is an associate professor in the Department of History and the Arts First program. His previous administrative roles at the University of Waterloo include serving as the Confronting Anti-Black Racism Advisor for the University’s Equity Office, and acting as the Faculty of Arts’ Black Equity Strategist & Anti-Racism Advisor. He is a facilitator with the City of Toronto’s Confronting Anti-Black Racism Unit and an Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism (EDI-R) consultant.
His book, Flying Fish in the Great White North: The Autonomous Migration of Black Barbadians, was published by Fernwood Publishing.
He also worked in the Ontario Public Service (OPS) and began his career as a Policy Coordinator Intern in the Deputy Minister's Office at the Ministry of Labour.
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