A Black teen dancer with dreams of landing a spot in a prestigious ballet company must learn to dance on her own terms in this explosive debut about the healing power of art and friendship, perfect for fans of Heartbreaker and Tiny...
Race identity
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Author:Ameyaw, MayaSummary: -
Author:Bickersteth, BertrandSummary:Bertrand Bickersteth's debut poetry collection explores what it means to be black and Albertan through a variety of prisms: historical, biographical, and essentially, geographical. The Response of Weeds offers a much-needed window on...
- Author:Lawton, GeorginaSummary:
After her father died, Lawton began to unravel the truth about her parentage, and the racial identity that she had been denied. She fled from England and the turmoil of her home life to live in Black communities around the globe and to...
- Author:Walcott, RinaldoSummary:
Queer Returns returns us to the scene of multiculturalism, diaspora and queer through the lens of black expression, identity and the political. The essays question what it means to live in a multicultural society, how diaspora impacts...
- Author:Bugul, KenSummary:
- Author:Mooney, HarrisonSummary:
A narrative that amplifies a voice rarely heard - that of the child at the centre of a transracial adoption and a searing account of being raised by religious fundamentalists. Harrison Mooney was born to a West African mother and...
- Author:Gibson, Chantal N.Summary:
"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...
- Author:Leroux, DarrylSummary:
Distorted Descent examines a social phenomenon that has taken off in the twenty-first century: otherwise white, French descendant settlers in Canada shifting into a self-defined "Indigenous" identity. This study is not about...
- Author:Williams, IanSummary:
Bestselling, Scotiabank Giller Award-winning writer Ian Williams brings fresh eyes and new insights to today's urgent conversation on race and racism in startling, illuminating essays that grow out of his own experience as a Black man...
- Author:Nicole, ShaniceSummary:
Dear Black Girls is a letter to all Black girls. Every day, poet and educator Shanice Nicole is reminded of how special Black girls are and of how lucky she is to be one. Illustrations by Kezna Dalz support the book's message that no...
- Author:Jefferson, MargoSummary:
Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperamental autobiography," comprised of visceral, intimate fragments that fuse criticism and memoir. Margo Jefferson constructs a...
