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-- Africaville.2019., Adult, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Call No: BLK Fic Col Edition: First Canadian edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This debut novel is the richly woven story of a town settled by former slaves on the outskirts of Halifax, Nova Scotia, known as Africville, and of the Sebolt family, who moves there in the 1930s. Teenager Kath Ella Sebolt wants desperately to escape the town that she equates with deprivation and lack of opportunity. Months after her boyfriend is killed during a clash between young people in the village and Halifax constables, she moves with her infant son to Montreal. After attending college as a single mother, and ultimately marrying a white man, she discovers that as much as she tries, severing ties to her former village is not easy. Kath Ella's son Etienne puts even more distance between himself and the village, first moving across the border to Vermont, and then farther south to Alabama, where he passes for white. Etienne's son Warner finds his standing in his all-white community compromised by the sudden revelation that he has black grandparents. As the story comes full circle, Warner travels to Africville to get to know his black relatives. They, however, are suspicious of his motivations. The family saga unfolds against the backdrop of Africville, based on a real place that has become a symbol not only of Black Canadian identity, but also of how the human spirit remains resilient in the face of adversity, tragedy and change.
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c1998., Associated Medical Services and Fitzhenry & Whiteside Call No: BLK Bio A126n Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Canadian medical livesSummary Note: Anderson Ruffin Abbot, son of a wealthy properties speculator, pursued a classical education in preparation for a professional career. Graduating from the Toronto School of Medicine in 1861 he became the first Canadian of African descent to train as a physician. In 1863 he petitioned Abraham Lincoln and was appointed one of only eight black surgeons in the Union Army during the Ameican Civil War. Following Lincoln's assassination, Mary Todd Lincoln bestowed on Abbott the plaid shawl Lincoln wore to his first inauguration. His career as a physician, surgeon, Canada's first African Canadian coroner and Superintendent of Chicago's Provident Hospital and Training School gained him respect in both countries and allowed him to bear with tolerance and equanimity the racial prejudice that was never far below the surface.
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2013., Callawind Publications Inc. Call No: BLK Bio R281a Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: On Saturday, March 4, at Indigo bookstore in downtown Montreal, Audley Coley will be on hand for a re-launch of his book, Audley Enough. It chronicles how he has been able to live a “normal” life while suffering with bipolar illness, by managing his affliction over the years by maintaining a positive attitude. First published in 2013, the book is “a brief account” of Coley’s journey, and is both motivational and inspiring, especially for people who also may be suffering with the affliction and seeking help. His first crisis happened when he was 27. His core message then is: “You can soar above mental illness.” And he offers himself as evidence that his affliction has not become an impediment.
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2001., Adult, Harper Perennial Call No: BLK 305.8 H646b Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Lawrence Hill's remarkable novel, Any Known Blood, a multi-generational story about a Canadian man of mixed race, was met with critical acclaim and it marked the emergence of a powerful new voice in Canadian writing. Now Hill, himself a child of a black father and white mother, brings us BLACK BERRY, SWEET JUICE: On Being Black and White in Canada, a provocative and unprecedented look at a timely and engrossing topic. In BLACK BERRY, SWEET JUICE, Hill movingly reveals his struggle to understand his own personal and racial identity. Raised by human rights activist parents in a predominantly white Ontario suburb, he is imbued with lingering memories and offers a unique perspective. In a satirical yet serious tone, Hill describes the ambiguity involved in searching for his identity - an especially complex and difficult journey in a country that prefers to see him as neither black nor white. Interspersed with slices of his personal experiences, fascinating family history and the experiences of thirty-six other Canadians of mixed race interviewed for this book, BLACK BERRY, SWEET JUICE also examines contemporary racial issues in Canadian society. Hill explores the terms used to describe children of mixed race, the unrelenting hostility towards mix-race couples and the real meaning of the black Canadian experience. It arrives at a critical time when, in the highly publicized and controversial case of Elijah Van de Perre, the son of a white mother and black father in British Columbia, the Supreme Court of Canada has just granted custody to Elijah's mother, Kimberly Van de Perre. A reflective, sensitive and often humorous book, BLACK BERRY, SWEET JUICE is a thought provoking discourse on the current status of race relations in Canada and it's a fascinating and important read for us all.
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2007., Between the Lines ; South End Press Call No: BLK 305.896 B627b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The global history of black people cannot be told without addressing powerful geographical shifts: massive forced migration, land dispossession, and legal as well as informal structures of segregation. From the Middle Passage to the "Whites Only" signposts of North American apartheid, the black disaporic experience is rooted firmly in the politics of place. Literature ahs long explored cultural differences in the experience of blackness in different quarters of the diaspora. But what are the real differences between being a maroon in the hills of Jamaica, a fugitive slave in Chatham, Ontario, and a runaway in the swamps of Florida? How does location impact repression and resistance, both on the ground and in the terrain of political imagination? Enter Black Geographies. In this path-breaking collection, twelve authors interrogate the intersections between space and race. For instance, some scholars, activists, and communities have sought to protect, restore, and reimagine black historical sites. Yet each of these locations has in common acts of racial hatred and state terrorism that have erased black geographies, leaving few historical structures standing. This begs the question: Can preserving and restoring such sites promote social justice and spur community redevelopment?Black geographies-invisible and visible, past and present-pose revealing questions about the politics, and possibilities, of place. (From book cover.)
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2007., Playwrights Canada Press Call No: BLK 812 H424b Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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1997., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: BLK 971.004 W775b Edition: 2nd ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2008., Adult, Wilfrid Laurier University Press ; Gazelle [distributor] Call No: BLK 811.54 C598b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Blues singer, preacher, cultural critic, exile, Africadian, high modernist, spoken word artist, Canadian poet - these are but some of the voices of George Elliott Clarke. In a selection of Clarke's best work from his early poetry to his most recent, 'Blues & Bliss' offers readers a cross-section of those voices.
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2017., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: BLK Fic Cha Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "An intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough housing complex during the sweltering heat and simmering violence of the summer of 1991. With shimmering prose and mesmerizing precision, David Chariandy takes us inside the lives of Michael and Francis. They are the sons of Trinidadian immigrants, their father has disappeared and their mother works double, sometimes triple shifts so her boys might fulfill the elusive promise of their adopted home. Coming of age in The Park, a cluster of town houses and leaning concrete towers in the disparaged outskirts of a sprawling city, Michael and Francis battle against the careless prejudices and low expectations that confront them as young men of black and brown ancestry -- teachers stream them into general classes; shopkeepers see them only as thieves; and strangers quicken their pace when the brothers are behind them. Always Michael and Francis escape into the cool air of the Rouge Valley, a scar of green wilderness that cuts through their neighbourhood, where they are free to imagine better lives for themselves. Propelled by the pulsing beats and styles of hip hop, Francis, the older of the two brothers, dreams of a future in music. Michael's dreams are of Aisha, the smartest girl in their high school whose own eyes are firmly set on a life elsewhere. But the bright hopes of all three are violently, irrevocably thwarted by a tragic shooting, and the police crackdown and suffocating suspicion that follow. With devastating emotional force David Chariandy, a unique and exciting voice in Canadian literature, crafts a heartbreaking and timely story about the profound love that exists between brothers and the senseless loss of lives cut short with the shot of a gun."--From publisher.
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2014., Adult, Little, Brown and company Call No: Bio A52s Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The twelve months leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination. Martin Luther King, Jr. died in one of the most shocking assassinations the world has known, but little is remembered about the life he led in his final year. Tavis Smiley recounts the final 365 days of King's life, revealing the minister's trials and tribulations -- denunciations by the press, rejection from the president, dismissal by the country's Black middle class and militants, assaults on his character, ideology, and political tactics, to name a few -- all of which he had to rise above in order to lead and address the racism, poverty, and militarism that threatened to destroy our democracy. A portrait of a leader and visionary and an exceptional glimpse into King's life -- one that adds both nuance and gravitas to his legacy as an American hero"--Provided by publisher.
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c2010., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF BLK 971.428 M157d c.2 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Studies on the history of Quebec Volume: 21.
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-- Perspectives on blackness in Canada2010., Cambridge Scholars Call No: BLK 305.8 E16e Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Ebony Roots, Northern Soil" is a powerful and timely collection of critical essays exploring the experiences, histories and cultural engagements of black Canadians. Drawing from postcolonial, critical race and black feminist theory, this innovative anthology brings together an extraordinary set of well-recognized and new scholars engaging in the critical debates about the cultural politics of identity and issues of cultural access, representation, production and reception. Emerging from a national conference in 2005, the book records, critiques and yet transcends this groundbreaking event. Drawn from a range of disciplines including Art History, Communication Studies, Cultural Studies, Education, English, History and Sociology, the chapters examine black contributions to and participation within the realms of popular music, television and film, the art world, museums, academia and social activism. In the process, the burning issues of access to cultural capital, the practice of multiculturalism, definitions of black Canadianness and the state of Black Canadian Studies are dissected. Attentive to issues of sexuality and gender as well as race, the book also explores and challenges the dominance of black Americanness in Canada, especially in its incarnation as hip hop. Acknowledging a differently constituted and heterogeneous black Canadianness, it contemplates the possibility of an identity in dialogue with, and yet distinct from, dominant ideals of African-Americanness. "Ebony Roots" also explores the deficit in Black Canadian Studies across the nation's universities, drawing a line between the neglect of black Canadian populations, histories and experiences in general and the resulting lack of an academic disciplinary infrastructure. Poignant blends of the personal and the political, the chapters are both scholarly in their critical insights and rigour and daring in their honesty. "Ebony Roots" defiantly foregrounds the often-disavowed issues of institutional racism against blacks in Canadian academia, education and cultural institutions as well as the injurious effects of everyday racism. In so doing, the book challenges the myth of Canada as a racially benevolent and tolerant state, the 'great white north' free from racism and the legacy of colonialism. Instead the very definitions of Canada and black Canadianness are unpacked and explored. "Ebony Roots" is a necessary history lesson, a contemporary cultural debate and a call to action. It is a momentous and overdue contribution to Black Canadian Studies and a must read for academics, students and the general public alike. (from Amazon)
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c2010., Natural Heritage Books Call No: BLK 394.263 H523e Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Explores the creation, development, and evolution of Emancipation Day festivities celebrating the end of slavery throughout the British Empire with the passage of the Abolition of Slavery act (1834). Topics include the social, cultural, political and educational practices of festivities across Canada, with a focus on Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and British Columbia.
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2023., HarperOne Call No: NEW BLK Bio H747e Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Eyes on the Horizon is Balarama Holness's story of lifting himself up through the power of self-determination, spirituality and no small amount of rebellion to confront the systemic racism of his city and his country. He accomplished this first through football, going all the way to a Grey Cup championship, and later through activism and politics.
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c2003., Natural Heritage Books Call No: BLK 971 S631f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The author grew into womanhood unaware of her celebrated Black ancestors. An unanticipated meeting was to change her life when she found out that her great-great grandfather was Dr. Anderson R. Abbott, the first Canadian-born Black to graduate from medical school in Toronto (in 1861). In Family Secrets Catherine Slaney narrates her journey along the trail of her family tree. Why did some of her family identify with the Black community while others did not? What role did "passing" play? An important contribution to African-Canadian history, this moving and uplifting story demonstrates that understanding one's identity requires first the embracing of the past"--Publisher.
