Research Catalog

Title

Blacks in Canada : Robin W. Winks collection, 1956-1972.

Author

Winks, Robin W.

Supplementary Content

Finding Aid

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Winks, Robin W.

Description

• 6.8 lin. ft.
• 12 microfilm reels.

Summary

Correspondence, manuscripts, and research materials related to Winks' authorship of Blacks in Canada: a History (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1971) and other articles concerning the history of blacks in Canada. Research material consists of notes taken by Winks in the field and in archives, and printed matter composed of articles, pamphlets, magazines, newspaper clippings, and correspondents with informants and reviewers.

Alternative Title

Robin W. Winks collection, 1956-1972.

Subjects

• Black people > Canada > Social conditions
• Black people > Canada > History > Sources
• Canada > Race relations
• Canada > History

Note

• Sc MG 65.
• Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
• Audiotapes transferred to Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Access (note)

• Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Additional Formats (note)

• Collection available on microfilm;

Source (note)

• Winks, Robin W.

Biography (note)

• Robin W. Winks, a professor of history at Yale University during the major part of his research for "The Blacks in Canada: A History" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971), received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1957. His career had been spent for the most part at Yale University, beginning as an instructor in 1957 through his appointment in 1977 as Master of Berkeley College at Yale. Additionally, Winks was a visiting professor at the University of Malaya (1962-1963), and the University of Sidney (1963) and was a State Department lecturer in the Middle East (1966) and West Africa (1972). He conducted research in a number of areas besides race relations, including Canadian-American diplomatic and cultural relations, and the role of Australia, New Zealand and Britain in the Pacific. Among his publications are "Failed Federations: Decolonization and The British Empire" (1970), "Myth of the American Frontier" (1971), and "The Relevance of Canadian History" (1978). He died in 2003.

Processing Action (note)

• Surveyed
• Processed
• Cataloging updated

Call Number

Sc Micro R-5857

OCLC

NYPW89-A236

Author

Winks, Robin W.

Title

Blacks in Canada : Robin W. Winks collection, 1956-1972.

Access

Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Additional Formats

Collection available on microfilm; Micrographic Preservation Service , call number Sc Micro R-5857.

Biography

Robin W. Winks, a professor of history at Yale University during the major part of his research for "The Blacks in Canada: A History" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971), received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1957. His career had been spent for the most part at Yale University, beginning as an instructor in 1957 through his appointment in 1977 as Master of Berkeley College at Yale. Additionally, Winks was a visiting professor at the University of Malaya (1962-1963), and the University of Sidney (1963) and was a State Department lecturer in the Middle East (1966) and West Africa (1972). He conducted research in a number of areas besides race relations, including Canadian-American diplomatic and cultural relations, and the role of Australia, New Zealand and Britain in the Pacific. Among his publications are "Failed Federations: Decolonization and The British Empire" (1970), "Myth of the American Frontier" (1971), and "The Relevance of Canadian History" (1978). He died in 2003.

Processing Action

Surveyed 198705

Processed Two accessions incorporated into one collection. SCM 77-06, donated by Robin W. Winks, processed by Diana Lachatanere. SCM 85-61, donated by Robin W. Winks, processed by Diana Lachatanere. 198209

Cataloging updated 19940513

Source

SCM 85-61

1.1\a Winks, Robin W. Gift

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Finding Aid

Added Author

Winks, Robin W.

Winks, Robin W. Blacks in Canada.

Other Title

Robin W. Winks collection, 1956-1972.

Research Call Number

Sc Micro R-5857