Bringing together fifteen scholars of art and culture, Unsettling Canadian Art History addresses the visual and material culture of settler colonialism, enslavement, and racialized diasporas in the contested white settler state of Canada.

This collection offers new avenues for scholarship on art, archives, and creative practice by rethinking histories of Canadian colonialisms from Black, Indigenous, racialized, feminist, queer, trans, and Two-Spirit perspectives. Writing across many positionalities, contributors offer chapters that disrupt colonial archives of art and culture, excavating and reconstructing radical Black, Indigenous, and racialized diasporic creation and experience. Exploring the racist frameworks that continue to erase histories of violence and resistance, this book imagines the expansive possibilities of a decolonial future.

Unsettling Canadian Art History affirms the importance of collaborative conversations and work in the effort to unsettle scholarship in Canadian art and culture.

Erin Morton is associate professor of visual culture in the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick.

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"This anthology inspires me to attune to how its authors enact shifting subjectivity and embodiment through the generative restaging of relationship." RACAR

"Unsettling Canadian Art History shows the rich fruits that come from rigorous inclusivity and relationality. It achieves affirmation of the human condition in all its complexity through a hope-ridden grappling with materiality. Experiential knowledge and razor-sharp critical theory combine to create a humane and profoundly relevant collection of essays that is a must-read by broader audiences than art historians and their students." ARTiculate

"Unsettling Canadian Art History is an ambitious and important book that should be looked to as a model for further analyses of Canadian (art) history and will make a strong impact on researchers and professors of both undergraduate and graduate courses." *College Art Association Reviews *