The Nerdy Professor Podcast

The Nerdy Professor

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  1. Aug 12

    Core Memory of the Western World | Ep. 25

    What's up y'all! On this episode we are going to take a look at the Haitian revolution. Some Sources Extra History | The Haitian Revolution Complete James, C. L. R. 1989. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint Louverture and the San Domingo Revolution.  Tyler D Parry, Charlton W Yingling, Slave Hounds and Abolition in the Americas, Past & Present, Volume 246, Issue 1, February 2020, Pages 69–108, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtz020  Music Credits In My Mind by Deoxys Beats | https://soundcloud.com/deoxysbeats1 Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) ⁠https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US Ascension by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) ⁠⁠https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/⁠Undertow by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The Long Dark by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Royalty Free Music by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Mighty Funky by FSM Team Royalty Free Music by https://www.free-stock-music.com Worthy Rivals by Arthur Vyncke | https://soundcloud.com/arthurvost Royalty Free Music by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US Surrounded by Hayden Folker | https://soundcloud.com/hayden-folker Royalty Free Music by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Peaceful Rain by Hayden Folker | https://soundcloud.com/hayden-folker Royalty Free Music by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

  2. Jul 29

    Iron Flower in the New World | Ep. 24

    What's up y'all! We are starting a new season and you know what that means! New places! This season we are going to check out some Black History Latin America! Some Sources Dani Anthony , "Bartolomé de las Casas and 500 Years of Racial Injustice" , Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective July, 2015 https://origins.osu.edu/milestones/july-2015-bartolom-de-las-casas-and-500-years-racial-injustice. Escobar Zelaya, Susana. 2021. “The Remains of Castas in Latin America”. Global Insight: A Journal of Critical Human Science and Culture 2 (October). https://doi.org/10.32855/globalinsight.2021.002. Mörner, Magnus. “The Spanish American Hacienda: A Survey of Recent Research and Debate.” The Hispanic American Historical Review 53, no. 2 (1973): 183–216. https://doi.org/10.2307/2512251. Yeager, Timothy J. “Encomienda or Slavery? The Spanish Crown’s Choice of Labor Organization in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America.” The Journal of Economic History 55, no. 4 (1995): 842–59. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2123819. Rowe, John H. “The Inca Civil War and the Establishment of Spanish Power in Peru.” Ñawpa Pacha: Journal of Andean Archaeology, no. 28 (2006): 1–9. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27977824. Music Credits -In My Mind by Deoxys Beats | https://soundcloud.com/deoxysbeats1 Royalty Free Music by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US -Ascension by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

  3. Jul 15

    Resonance on the Ninth Floor | Ep. 23

    What's up yall! This episode will take a look at some keu moments during the Black Power Movement in Canada. If you would like to support the podcast please visit my website theneryprofessor.com. Thank you.Some Sources Music Creds -Spring by Alexander Nakarada (CreatorChords) | https://creatorchords.com Royalty Free Music by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/   -In My Mind by Deoxys Beats | https://soundcloud.com/deoxysbeats1 Royalty Free Music by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US -Ascension by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

  4. Jul 1

    The Fight Against Canada's Devils | Ep. 22

    What's up yall ! On today's episode we are looking at Black Canada's fight for equality. If you would like to support the podcast please visit my website theneryprofessor.com. Thank you. Some Sources -Deachman, Bruce. “15 Canadian Stories: Viola Desmond, Reluctant Social Activist.” ottawacitizen , September 1, 2017. https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/15-canadian-stories-viola-desmond-reluctant-social-activist. -Bingham, Russell. "Viola Desmond." The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Article published January 27, 2013; Last Edited April 16, 2021.-Mackenzie, Shelagh . Remember Africville . National Film Board of Canada, 1991. https://www.nfb.ca/film/remember-africville/. -Nelson, Jennifer J. “The Space of Africville: Creating, Regulating and Remembering the Urban ‘Slum.’” Canadian journal of law and society 15, no. 2 (2000): 163–85. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0829320100006402. Music Creds - Wishful Thinking by Arthur Vyncke | https://soundcloud.com/arthurvost Royalty Free Music by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US - The Long Dark by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Royalty Free Music by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ -In My Mind by Deoxys Beats | https://soundcloud.com/deoxysbeats1 Royalty Free Music by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US -Ascension by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

  5. 06/11/2025

    Truth Through Chaos | Ep. 21

    What's up y'all! Today I have a long one for you. We jump some timelines and discuss Black activism in the early 1900s. I hope you enjoy! Let me know what you all would like to hear about next. Sources (I have way more sources these are just the top few) • African Canadian Legal Clinic. 2012. (Lawson, Smith, Chen, Parson, & Scott, 2002; Smith & Lawson, 2002). • Bertley, J. 1982. The role of the black community in educating blacks in montreal, from 1910 to 1940, with special reference to reverend dr. charles humphrey este (Order No. MK58154). ProQuest 303248151 • "Black Train Porters." Coquitlam Heritage Society, https://www.coquitlamheritage.ca/our-blog/black-train-porters. • "Black Women Changemakers of the 19th and 20th Centuries." Canadian Museum of History. https://www.historymuseum.ca/teachers-zone/black-women-changemakers-of-the-19th-and-20th-centuries/creating-a-positive-black-identity/adeline-chancy • Boyd, Nancy. “Madness, Women, and the State: Reflections on a Canadian Feminist Perspective.” Canadian Social Work Review, vol. 34, no. 1 (2017). • Supreme Court of Canada, “Christie v. The York Corporation, [1940] S.C.R. 139,” Exhibits, https://exhibits.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/2715. • Este, David, Christa Sato, and Darcy McKenna. "The Coloured Women’s Club of Montreal, 1902-1940 African-Canadian Women Confronting Anti-Black Racism." Canadian Social Work Review 34, no. 1 (2017). https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/cswr/2017-v34-n1-cswr03182/1040996ar/ Music Credits In My Mind by Deoxys Beats | https://soundcloud.com/deoxysbeats1 Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) ⁠https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US Ascension by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) ⁠https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Undertow by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Decisive Hours by FSCM Productions | https://fscmproductions.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

  6. 03/28/2025

    Scheming to Migrate | Ep 20

    What's up yall ! In this episode we will be covering the West Indian Domestic Scheme. Stay tuned for more! Music credits I Knew a Guy by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100199 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Tension by Alex-Productions | https://onsound.eu/ Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Downtown Walk by | e s c p | https://www.escp.space https://escp-music.bandcamp.com Sources "Caribbean Immigration to Toronto." Heritage Toronto. Accessed March 28, 2025. https://www.heritagetoronto.org/explore/little-jamaica-toronto-history/jamaican-history-domestics-scheme/. "West Indian Domestic Scheme (1955–1967)." Parks Canada. Last modified July 15, 2020. https://www.canada.ca/en/parks-canada/news/2020/07/west-indian-domestic-scheme-19551967.html. Henry, Frances. "West Indian Domestic Scheme." The Canadian Encyclopedia. Last Modified December 17, 2020. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/west-indian-domestic-scheme. Calliste, Agnes. "Black History in Canada (1960 to Present)." The Canadian Encyclopedia. Last Modified February 07, 2024. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/black-history-in-canada-1960-to-present. Henry, Frances. "West Indian Domestic Scheme." The Canadian Encyclopedia. Last Modified December 17, 2020. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/west-indian-domestic-scheme. Knowles, Valerie. "Immigration Policy." The Canadian Encyclopedia. Last Modified December 14, 2023. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/immigration-policy. "History." Canadian Council for Refugees. Accessed March 28, 2025. https://ccrweb.ca/en/issues/history. "The Government of Canada Commemorates the West Indian Domestic Scheme (1955-1967) as an Immigration Program Through Which Around 3,000 Women From Caribbean Countries Were Recruited to Work as Domestic Servants in Canada." Parks Canada. Last modified February 13, 2025. https://www.canada.ca/en/parks-canada/news/2025/02/the-government-of-canada-commemorates-the-west-indian-domestic-scheme-1955-1967-as-an-immigration-program-through-which-around-3000-women-from-cari.html. Flynn, Karen. Moving Beyond Borders: A History of Black Canadian and Caribbean Women in the Diaspora. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.

  7. 03/14/2025

    The Forgotten Frontlines | Ep. 19

    What's up y'all , in this episode we are going to check out the history of Black Canadians role in Word War 1. Music credits I Can’t Stop by Punch Deck | https://soundcloud.com/punch-deck Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Apocalypse Blues by Alexander Nakarada (CreatorChords) | https://creatorchords.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The Universe Speaks by Arthur Vyncke | https://soundcloud.com/arthurvost Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US Sources "Artifact: Black Canadian Soldier's Equipment." Canadian War Museum, warmuseum.ca/collections/artifact/1017212 "Black Battalion History." Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, www.bccns.com/our-history/black-battalion-history/ "Black Canadians." Veterans Affairs Canada, 25 Feb. 2020, www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/people-and-stories/black-canadians "Black Canadians and the Military: Black Volunteers in the Canadian Expeditionary Force." The Canadian Encyclopedia, 9 Sept. 2016, www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/black-volunteers-in-the-canadian-expeditionary-force "Black History in Canada, 1900–1960." The Canadian Encyclopedia, 7 Feb. 2017, www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/black-history-in-canada-1900-1960 "Black History in Canada – No. 2 Construction Battalion." No. 2 Construction Battalion, www.no2-cef.ca/history/ "Challenges of the Black Canadian Experience." Library and Archives Canada, colab.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Challenges/Details/1027 "Construction Battalion: Black Soldiers from Pictou and the First World War." CBC News, 18 June 2017, www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/construction-battalion-black-soldiers-pictou-first-world-war-anniversary-1.4040018 "OfficialW5." YouTube, 11 Feb. 2019, www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtsKIlk76T8&ab_channel=OfficialW5 Ruck, Calvin W. The Black Battalion: 1916-1920: Canada's Best Kept Military Secret. 1925

  8. 03/07/2025

    Ware out West | Ep 18

    What's up y'all today we are taking a trip out west to look at the development of western Canada. Music credits In My Mind by Deoxys Beats | https://soundcloud.com/deoxysbeats1Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons / Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US   The Long Dark by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckleyMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/   Uncertainty by Arthur Vyncke | https://soundcloud.com/arthurvost Musicpromoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons / Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US Ascension by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Musicpromoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/  Sources "African American Immigration to Alberta." Alberta Heritage Resource Management Information System. Accessed March 7, 2025. https://albertashistoricplaces.com/2015/02/12/african-american-immigration-to-alberta/ "African Americans in Indian Territory." Oklahoma Historical Society.Accessed March 7, 2025. https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=AF001 Backhouse, Constance. "Order in Council PC 1911-1324: The Proposed Ban on Black Immigration to Canada." The Canadian Encyclopedia. Last Modified November 26, 2020. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/order-in-council-pc-1911-1324-the-proposed-ban-on-black-immigration-to-canada "Black History: Willow Grove, NB and Amber Valley, AB." Canada Post. Accessed March 7, 2025. https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/personal/collectibles/stamp-stories/2021-01-22-black-history-willow-grove-nb-and-amber-valley-ab "Black Pioneer Immigration to Alberta and Saskatchewan." Parks Canada.Last modified May 2017. https://www.canada.ca/en/parks-canada/news/2017/05/black_pioneer_immigrationtoalbertaandsaskatchewan.html Bowsfield, Valerie. "Canadian Pacific Railway." The CanadianEncyclopedia. Last Modified February 08, 2024. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/canadian-pacific-railway Carter, Sarah. "Amber Valley." The Canadian Encyclopedia. LastModified January 20, 2022. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/amber-valley "Chinese Labour on the Canadian Pacific Railway." AHSNB. Accessed March 7,2025. https://www.ahsnb.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/AHSNB-Chinese-Labour-on-the-CPR_Final.pdf "Conditions & Segregation." Museum of Toronto. Accessed March 7, 2025. https://www.museumoftoronto.com/collection/conditions-segregation/ D'Amato, Page, Nick. "Anti-Black racism in Canada: How immigrationpolicies have discriminated against Black people." Toronto CityNews. Last Modified July 1, 2020. https://toronto.citynews.ca/2020/07/01/anti-black-racism-canada-immigration/ "John Ware (1845-1905)." Parks Canada. Accessed March 7, 2025. https://parks.canada.ca/culture/designation/personnage-person/john-ware Historica Canada. "John Ware." YouTube video, 2:24. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=vBu3XC35EF0&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.historicacanada.ca%2F&embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.historicacanada.ca&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE "Mifflin, Wistar Gibbs (1823-1915)." Parks Canada. Last modified February 2017. https://www.canada.ca/en/parks-canada/news/2017/02/backgrounder_mifflinwistargibbs1823-1915.html Riemer, Isobel. "Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar." In Dictionary ofCanadian Biography, vol. 14, 1911-1920. Toronto: University ofToronto/Université Laval, 2003–. https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/gibbs_mifflin_wistar_14F.html (sources missing due to character limit)

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