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- ↑ "Affiliated Faculty". 4 October 2019.
- ↑ Walcott, R. (2000), "At The Full and Change of Canlit: An Interview with Dionne Brand", Canadian Women’s Studies, 20, 2, pp. 22–26.
- ↑ "SJE :: Social Justice Education at OISE".
- ↑ "Pride has divorced blackness from queerness: Cole". Toronto Star , July 7, 2016.
- 1 2 Althea Blackburn-Evans, "The Cultural Explorer: Rinaldo Walcott seeks new definitions of Canadian culture", Edge, Fall 2003, Vol. 4, No. 2.
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