Cheryl ThompsonCheryl Thompson lives in Toronto and is the author of Canada and the Blackface Atlantic: Performing Slavery, Conflict, and Freedom, 1812–1897 (2025), Uncle: Race, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Loyalty (2021) and Beauty in a Box: Detngling the Roots of Canada’s Black Beauty Culture (2019). She holds a PhD in Communication Studies from McGill University. Read More Read Less