Supplemental Links

Part I

“Moon River” Kid Koala, Studio Version (Music Video)

“Kid Koala Performs Moon River,” Ankur Malhotra (Concert Video)

Bell use of a real human ear (Archive)

“Synthetic Substitution” by Melvin Bliss (Song, Website)

De La Soul vs. The Turtles (Court Case)

Vanilla Ice vs Queen (News)

Zora Neale Hurston ‘28 Sings: “Halihmuhfack” (Music Video)

Part II

First White Child Born in Vancouver, 31 May 1886. (Archive)

First white child born in New Westminster was Black (Archive)

Jimi Hendrix shrine in Vancouver (Website)

Wayde Compton “‘Schizophonophilia’: An Audio-Interplay Between Wayde Compton and Paul Watkins” (Interview)

Part III

UBC report on 1999 Chinese Refugees (Archive)

Stephen Harper “No history of Colonialism” (Video Clip)

Black Strathcona, interactive website (Website)

Saltspring Island, blackpast.org (Archive)

Joe Fortes, stamp (Stamp)

Richard Outcault’s “Hogan’s Alley” (Archive, Comic)

2020 reminder of Hogan’s Alley and Georgia Viaduct’s “symbol of oppression” (News)

Hogan’s Alley Plaque (News)

2014 Black History Month stamps (Stamps)

Stan Douglas’s Circa 1948 App on iOS (App)

Secret Vancouver: Return to Hogan’s Alley (Video News)

Northeast False Creek Plan (Policy)

Additional Sources

NEW: “SOUNDING OUT AND TUNING IN: Black Canadian Poetics, DJ Methodology, and Citizenship Today.” Paul db Watkins and Wayde Compton in Conversation (March 2025) 

Black Canadian Scholars Series “Race Literacy ‘Anti-racist Poetics’ by Wayde Compton” (Lecture)

Center for Literatures in Canada “2023 CLC Kreisel Lecture with Wayde Compton | ‘Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics’” (Lecture)

“Viaducts Are a Symbolically Important Place,” CBC News (News)

Latest news on revitalization of Hogan’s Alley (News)

Discussion Questions

1. Look up a few references from the various poems and identify any unfamiliar language. What do you notice about the poetic language used? Why do you think Compton takes this approach?

2. Consider the current refugee crisis in relation to Compton’s poem “Illegalese: Floodgate Dub.” Who has the authority to determine who is allowed to come and go? Why does Compton write, “if it was heroic for runaway slaves to seep into Canada, / why is it villifiable for Chinese migrants to hide in the belly of a dream / now?” (31)?

3. What do you find visually unique about the poem “Forme and Chase”? Why do you think the image of the viaduct is placed beside the poem? What might be the significance of changing the spelling of "viaduct" to "Vividuct"?

4. In relation to the poem “Vèvè,” is something lost when we move between digital and analogue technologies or ways of being in the world? How does Compton address this tension?

5. At the end of “Ghetto Fabulous Ozymandias” (153), Rez. Oz states, “It is arrogant to disappear” (156). What do you think he means by this, especially in the context of Hogan's Alley? Further, how might the theme of disappearance relate to Shelley’s poem “Ozymandias”? See the poem, here.

6. In the chapter Compton’s work is described as “turntable poetics,” remixing historical and contemporary voices. How does this chapter demonstrate the concept of remix, and why might it be an important technique for engaging with Black Canadian history and identity?