Take a Moment for Representation:
An Anti-Racism Series

Black woman in fur coat standing next to car in the rain

Mama Madelyn

Image and text by: MAZA

Deep Rooted Love

Still from film by Ava Marucci Campbell (Student, Library Technology Sandbox Assistant)

Image and film copyright holder: Ava Marucci Campbell

Eight Black people dressed in black standing on a rail bridge

Where They Stood: A Historical Account of the Evolution of Black-Anglo Montreal

Text by: Ayana Monuma and Sara DeMelo-Zare

Photograph by Marlena Goldberg, 2021

"George," Who?

Text by: Dereje Taye and Rachel Harris

Photography courtesy of © Canada Science and Technology Museum Archives

Game Face (Now You Know)

Image and text by: Anna Jane McIntyre

Image copyright holder: Anna Jane McIntyre

About

Take a Moment for Representation: An Anti-Racism Series
March 2021 – Summer 2022

The call for submissions has ended.

Take a Moment for Representation: An Anti-Racism Series is Concordia University Library's inaugural digital exhibition. Caught within the constant flow of hundreds and thousands of images that characterize our digital age, let us take several uninterrupted moments. Let us pause for solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, for self-reflection on systemic racism, and to make space for Black representation.

The text-image pairings in the series are from Concordia community members, including students, librarians, staff, alumni, writers, artists, and research collaborators. Each pairing encourages a pause for a minute, two, or more. As a whole, the series explores how images and texts have a role to play in the fight for a more inclusive and just society. How can digitized images and the stories they tell help to destabilize the normalization of whiteness within our educational infrastructures and beyond?

The submission period exhibition ran from March 21 and will end during the summer of 2022.

Take a Moment Coordinators: Rachel Harris and Sarah Lake

Questions? Please contact: lib-exhibitions@concordia.ca