NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - "A masterpiece" (Minneapolis Star Tribune ), a "devastating" ( The New York Times ) meditation on Black performance in America from the MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellow and...
Social science
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Author:Abdurraqib, HanifSummary: - Author:Procter, AndreaSummary:
Left out of the national apology and reconciliation process begun in 2008, survivors of residential schools in Labrador and Newfoundland received a formal apology from the Canadian government in 2017. This recognition finally brought...
- Author:Elliott, AliciaSummary:
The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated as a mind spread out on the ground. In this urgent and visceral work, Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of the personal,...
- Author:Ryan, DarleneSummary:
For much of her adult life, Darlene believed she wouldn't make a good mother: "Besides, I couldn't admit to anyone that I didn't know how to do mother things. So I married someone who didn't want to have children either." Everything...
- Author:Kona, Bongani, Allfrey, Ellah WakatamaSummary:
Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent. Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a...
- Author:Milloy, John S.Summary:
'I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.' — Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923) '[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis,...
- Author:Hamilton, Leah K., Veronis, Luisa, Walton-Roberts, MargaretSummary:
Since the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, over 5.6 million people have fled Syria and another 6.6 million remain internally displaced. By January 2017, a total of 40,081 Syrians had sought refuge across Canada in the largest...
- Author:Mills, SeanSummary:
What is the relationship between migration and politics in Quebec? How did French Canadians' activities in Haiti influence Quebec society? How did Haitian migrants shape debates about language, class, nationalism and sexuality? Breaks...
- Author:Lapierre, DominiqueSummary:
When the first Dutch Calvinist settlers arrived in South Africa, they believed that they had been chosen by God to rule over the world. Their bloody and fervent saga would culminate three centuries later in the establishment of...
- Author:Tahirović-Sijerčić, Hedina, Levine-Rasky, CynthiaSummary:
Romani Women in Canada: Spectrum of the Blue Water is grounded upon Romani women’s lived experience as writers, essayists, visual artists, and activists. Reflecting the panoply of women’s voices, the book links everyday...
- Author:Mitchell-Cook, AmySummary:
A Sea of Misadventures examines more than 100 documented shipwreck narratives from the 17th to the 19th century as a means to understanding gender, status and religion in the history of early America. Though it includes all the drama...
- Author:McGregor, HannahSummary:
How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed? In A Sentimental Education, Hannah McGregor, the podcaster behind Witch, Please and Secret Feminist Agenda, explores what...
- Author:Wright, RonaldSummary:
Each time history repeats itself, so it's said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth,...
- Author:Simpson, Leanne BetasamosakeSummary:
In A Short History of the Blockade, award-winning writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson uses Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg stories, storytelling aesthetics, and practices to explore the generative nature of Indigenous blockades through our...
- Author:Blanc, Paul Le.Summary:
In a blend of economic, social, and political history, P Le Blanc shows how important labor issues have been, and continue to be, in the forging of our nation's history. Within a broad analytical framework, he highlights issues of...
- Author:van Horssen, JessicaSummary:
For decades, manufacturers from around the world relied on asbestos from the town of Asbestos, Quebec, to produce fire-retardant products. Then, over time, people learned about the mineral’s devastating effects on human health....
- Author:Friedman, AviSummary:
A View from the Porch is an illuminating collection of 22 essays about the points where design touches life and the big and small things that make us appreciate, or become disconnected from, our homes and neighbourhoods. Drawing on his...
- Author:Drout, Michael D. C.Summary:
Professor Drout continues to explore humanity's intimate association with language, here delving into the finer points of grammar. The intricacies of grammar, in fact, should not be relegated to the realm of fussy "guardians of the...
- Author:Drout, Michael D. C.Summary:
In this course, Wheaton College professor Michael D.C. Drout brings his expertise in literary studies to the subject of rhetoric. He examines types of rhetoric and their effects, the structure of effective arguments, and how subtleties...
- Author:Maher, SanamSummary:
In 2016, Pakistan's first social media celebrity, Qandeel Baloch, was murdered in a suspected honor killing. Maher reconstructs the story of her life to restore the humanity of the woman at its center.
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