An anthology of African-Canadian writing, Black Writing Matters offers a cross-section of established writers and newcomers to the literary world who tackle contemporary and pressing issues with beautiful, sometimes raw, prose. As...
Anti-Racist Resources
Collection of titles for education on being anti-racist. Titles focus on both Black, Indigenous, and POC topics and histories, as well as books on how to be an ally including topics on confronting Racism and White Fragility.
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- Auteur:Picciolini, ChristianSommaire:
At fourteen, Christian Picciolini was recruited by skinheads and encouraged to fight to "protect the white race from extinction." Soon, he had become a neo-nazi terror. By the time he left the movement and was finally able to see...
- Auteur:Chariandy, DavidSommaire:
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...
- Auteur:Jones, BurnleySommaire:
Born and raised in Truro, Nova Scotia, Burnley "Rocky" Jones is one of Canada's most important figures of social justice. Often referred to as Canada's Stokely Carmichael, Jones was tirelessly dedicated to student movements, peace...
- Auteur:Johnson, Harold R.Sommaire:
I open my eyes in the darkness, laying on my side, half my vision is of the earth and shadows; the other is of the sky, treetops, and stars. I should write Clifford's story. The thought emerges fully formed . . . The thought dissipates...
- Auteur:Mascarenhas, DerekSommaire:
Coconut Dreams explores the lives of the Pinto family through seventeen linked short stories. Starting with a ghost story set in Goa, India in the 1950s, the collection weaves through various timelines and perspectives to focus on two...
- Auteur:Gordon, EdSommaire:
This book offers sage wisdom for navigating race in a radically divisive America. Bombarded with media, music, and social media messages that enforce stereotypes of people of color, journalist Ed Gordon shows what black power and black...
- Auteur:Nicks, John, Nicks, DenverSommaire:
In 1939, a horrific triple murder occurred in Oklahoma. As pressure mounted to find a villain, prosecutors settled on a black farmer named W. D. Lyons, who was arrested and tortured into signing a confession. This book tells the story...
- Auteur:Neufeld, JohnSommaire:
When the Fickett family decides to adopt a little black boy, they are faced with threats, angry phone calls, a burning cross on the lawn, and an ultimatum from their oldest daughter.
- Auteur:Grady, WayneSommaire:
How far would a son go to belong? And how far would a father go to protect him? With his curly black hair and his wicked grin, everyone swoons and thinks of Frank Sinatra when Navy musician Jackson Lewis takes the stage. It's World War...
- Auteur:Owen, HowardSommaire:
Willie Black knew he had a father, even if he didn't know where he was buried. Artie Lee, a saxophonist and race man who did not suffer bigots gladly, died in a car crash. Willie knew that. When he starts figuratively digging, though,...
- Auteur:Thistle, JesseSommaire:
In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle, once a high school dropout and now a rising Indigenous scholar, chronicles his life on the streets and how he overcame trauma and addiction to discover the truth about who...
- Auteur:Rhodes, Jewell ParkerSommaire:
Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation unleashed on his family and community. This gripping story is about how children, families--and one...
- Auteur:Mailhot, Terese MarieSommaire:
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing...
- Auteur:Shetterly, Margot LeeSommaire:
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle...
- Auteur:Lau, DorettaSommaire:
An updated and whimsical new take on what it means to be Canadian. Featuring the Journey Prize-shortlisted story, "How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?" When asked in an interview about the Shanghai Sharks, the team...
- Auteur:Gibson, Chantal N.Sommaire:
"How she read" is a collection of genre-blurring poems about the representation of Black women, their hearts, minds and bodies, across the Canadian cultural imagination. Drawing from grade-school vocabulary spellers, literature, history...
- Auteur:Rutherford, AdamSommaire:
Race is not a biological reality. Racism thrives on our not knowing this. Racist pseudoscience is on the rise-fueling hatred, feeding nationalism, and seeping into our discourse on everything from sports to intelligence. Even the well-...
- Auteur:Rankin, Kenrya, Solomon, AkibaSommaire:
This celebration of Black resistance offers a blueprint for the fight for freedom and justice, and ideas for how each of us can contribute. Leading organizers, artists, journalists, comedians, and filmmakers offer wisdom on how they...
- Auteur:Dupuis, Jenny Kay, Kacer, KathySommaire:
A picture book based on a true story about a young First Nations girl who was sent to a residential school. When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened,...