Black History Month

Updated February 2, 2024
Drag items up and down to your preferred order then select the "Save Order" button.
De la couleur des lois: Une histoire juridique du racisme au Canada entre 1900 et 1950
Backhouse, Constance
Ebook
Malgre l ouverture proclamee des Canadiens face a la diversite ethnique et culturelle, l histoire canadienne n en est pas moins marquee par la discrimination systematique. Cet ouvrage expose la tenacite juridique de cette discrimination par l entremise d un examen de six arrets judiciaires...
What's a Black critic to do? interviews, profiles, and reviews of Black writers
Bailey Nurse, Donna
Ebook
This groundbreaking collection of profiles, interviews, essays and reviews on such well-known black writers and artists as Nalo Hopkinson, Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, Lawrence Hill and Edwidge Danticat constitutes a frank conversation on the significance of race in contemporary Black Canadian and...
The vanishing half A novel.
Bennett, Brit.
Ebook
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES * THE WASHINGTON POST * NPR * PEOPLE * TIME MAGAZINE * VANITY FAIR * GLAMOUR New York Times<...
I know who I am : a Caribbean woman's identity in Canada
Bobb-Smith, Yvonne
Ebook
Dr Yvonne Bobb-Smith explores the knowledge and history of resistance of Caribbean women in Canada, using her own journey as a personal place from which to navigate the generalised experience of settlement and adjustment in the Diaspora. I Know Who I Am investigates the stories of 45 Caribbean women...
Book of rhymes : the poetics of hip hop
Bradley, Adam.
Paper Book
If asked to list the greatest innovators of modern American poetry, few of us would think to include Jay-Z or Eminem in their number. And yet hip hop is the source of some of the most exciting developments in verse today. The media uproar in response to its controversial lyrical content has obscured...
Policing the planet : why the policing crisis led to black lives matter
Camp, Jordan T.
Paper Book
How policing became the major political issue of our time Combining firsthand accounts from activists with the research of scholars and reflections from artists, Policing the Planet traces the global spread of the broken-windows policing strategy, first established in New York...
Directions home : approaches to African-Canadian literature
Clarke, George Elliott
Ebook
The latest work from pioneering scholar George Elliott Clarke, Directions Homeis the most comprehensive analysis of African-Canadian texts and writers to date. Building on the discoveries of his critically acclaimed Odysseys Home, Clarke passionately analyses the beautiful complexities and...
The crunk feminist collection
Cooper, Brittney C.
Paper Book
Essays on hip-hop feminism featuring relevant, real conversations about how race and gender politics intersect with pop culture and current events. For the Crunk Feminist Collective, their academic day jobs were lacking in conversations they actually wanted--relevant, real...
Octavia E. Butler's Kindred
Duffy, Damian
Paper Book
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller Octavia E. Butler's bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format. More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and...
Why i'm no longer talking to white people about race
Eddo-Lodge, Reni.
Ebook
'Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak'*Updated edition featuring a new afterword*The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable...
Washington Black A novel
Edugyan, Esi.
Ebook
MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST * ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR * "A gripping historical narrative exploring both the bounds of slavery and what it means to be truly free." --Vanity Fair Eleven-year-old George...
The games black girls play : learning the ropes from Double-dutch to Hip-hop
Gaunt, Kyra Danielle.
Ebook
2007 Alan Merriam Prize presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Book Award Finalist Explores how the traditions of black music are intertwined in the games black girls grow up with When we think of African American popular music,...
Dear sir, I intend to burn your book : an anatomy of a book burning
Hill, Lawrence
Ebook
Censorship and book burning are still present in our lives. Lawrence Hill shares his experiences of how ignorance and the fear of ideas led a group in the Netherlands to burn the cover of his widely successful novel, The Book of Negroes, in 2011. Why do books continue to ignite such strong reactions...
Black looks : race and representation
hooks, bell
Paper Book
In these twelve essays, bell hooks digs ever deeper into the personal and political consequences of contemporary representations of race and ethnicity within a white supremacist culture.
Salvation : Black people and love
hooks, bell
Paper Book
"A manual for fixing our culture...In writing that is elegant and penetratingly simple, [hooks] gives voice to some things we may know in our hearts but need an interpreter like her to process."--Black Issues Book Review New York Times bestselling author, acclaimed visionary and cultural...
Talking back : thinking feminist, thinking black
hooks, bell
Paper Book
Essays discuss homophobia, everyday feminism, the portrayal of women in films, autobiography, Black women writers, and white supremacy.
We real cool : Black men and masculinity
hooks, bell
Ebook
"When women get together and talk about men, the news is almost always bad news," writes bell hooks. "If the topic gets specific and the focus is on black men, the news is even worse." In this powerful new book, bell hooks arrests our attention from the first page. Her title--We Real...
Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America
Kendi, Ibram X.
Paper Book
Now a major Netflix documentary The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in...
North of the color line : migration and Black resistance in Canada, 1870-1955
Mathieu, Sarah-Jane.
Ebook
North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black railway workers and their union, the Order of Sleeping Car...
Beloved : a novel
Morrison, Toni.
Paper Book
Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the unassailable truths of experience and emotion with the vision of legend...
Check it while I wreck it : Black womanhood, hip hop culture, and the public sphere
Pough, Gwendolyn D.
Paper Book
Hip-hop culture began in the early 1970s as the creative and activist expressions -- graffiti writing, dee-jaying, break dancing, and rap music -- of black and Latino youth in the depressed South Bronx, and the movement has since grown into a worldwide cultural phenomenon that permeates almost...
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the sky
Ringgold, Faith.
Paper Book
The main character of Coretta Scott King Award and Caldecott Honor winner Tar Beach takes flight once again, encountering Harriet Tubman and learning about the Underground Railroad. Cassie, who flew above New York in Tar Beach, soars into the sky once more. This...
Fugitive borders Black Canadian cross-border literature at mid-nineteenth century
Sawallisch, Nele
Ebook
Fugitive Borders explores a new archive of 19th-century autobiographical writing by black authors in North America. For that purpose, Nele Sawallisch examines four different texts written by formerly enslaved men in the 1850s that emerged in or around the historical region of Canada West (now known...
Jimi Hendrix, electric gypsy
Shapiro, Harry
Paper Book
September 18, 1995, marks the 25th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's untimely demise. To commemorate this event, the authors have revised and updated over 200 pages of Electric Gypsy, the record of Hendrix's legacy as the music world's most talented guitarist.
Racial profiling in Canada : challenging the myth of "a few bad apples"
Tator, Carol.
Ebook
In October 2002, the Toronto Star ran a series of feature articles on racial profiling in which it was indicated that Toronto police routinely target young Black men when making traffic stops. The articles drew strong reactions from the community, and considerable protest from the media,...
Real life A novel.
Taylor, Brandon.
Ebook
A FINALIST for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the VCU/Cabell First Novelist Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, the NYPL Young Lions Award, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award    "A blistering coming...
Black like who? : writing Black Canada
Walcott, Rinaldo
Ebook
Rinaldo Walcott's groundbreaking study of black culture in Canada, Black Like Who?, caused such an uproar upon its publication in 1997 that Insomniac Press has decided to publish a second revised edition of this perennial best-seller. With its incisive readings of hip-hop, film, literature, social...
Piecing me together
Watson, Renée
Paper Book
Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner New York Times bestseller "Timely and timeless." -Jacqueline Woodson "Important and deeply moving." -John Green Bestselling and award-winning author Renée Watson offers a powerful...
The nickel boys A novel.
Whitehead, Colson
Ebook
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * This follow-up to The Underground Railroad brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. * "One of the most gifted novelists...
The underground railroad (oprah's book club) A Novel
Whitehead, Colson
Ebook
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. One of The New York Times's 10...
The Blacks in Canada : a history
Winks, Robin W.
Ebook
Using an impressive array of primary and secondary materials, Robin Winks details the diverse experiences of Black immigrants to Canada, including Black slaves brought to Nova Scotia and the Canadas by Loyalists at the end of the American Revolution, Black refugees who fled to Nova Scotia following...

Library staff! You can create and contribute to lists. Contact your catalog administrator or log in here.