Books by and on Black Canadians

Curated by Malinda S. Smith, PhD (Vice Provost, EDI, University of Calgary)


Angry Queer Somali Boy

Angry Queer Somali Boy

Ali, Mohamed Abdulkarim
Regina: University of Regina Press, 2019.

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Naturally woman: The search for self in Black Canadian women's literature

Naturally woman: The search for self in Black Canadian women's literature

Beckford, Sharon Morgan
Toronto: Inanna Publications and Education Inc., 2011.

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Everyday Transgressions: Domestic Workers' Transnational Challenge to International Labor Law

Everyday Transgressions: Domestic Workers' Transnational Challenge to International Labor Law

Blackett, Adelle 
ILR Press, 2019.

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Have You Met Nora?

Have You Met Nora?

Blades, Nicole 
New York: Dafina, 2017.

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The Thunder Beneath Us

The Thunder Beneath Us

Blades, Nicole  
New York: Dafina Press, 2016.

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Theory

Theory

Brand, Dionne
Toronto: Penguin Random House Canada, 2019.

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Land to Light On

Land to Light On

Brand, Dionne
Toronto: Penguin Random House Canada, 1997

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What We All Long For

What We All Long For

Brand, Dionne 
Vintage Canada, 2005.

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A Map to the Door of No Return

A Map to the Door of No Return

Brand, Dionne 
Double Day Canada, 2001.

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 I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter

I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter

Chariandy, David
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2018

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Brother

Brother

Chariandy, David
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2017.

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'Membering

'Membering

Clarke, Austin
Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2015.

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Execution Poems

Execution Poems

Clarke, George Elliott 
Kentville, N.S.: Gaspereau Press, 2009.

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Africadian History: An Exhibition Catalogue

Africadian History: An Exhibition Catalogue

Clarke. George Elliott
Kentville, N.S.: Gaspereau Press, 2001.

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The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power

The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power

Cole, Desmond
Penguin Random House Canada, 2020.

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After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region

After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region

Compton, Wayde
Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2011.

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La Pendaison d’Angelique

La Pendaison d’Angelique

Cooper, Afua
Translated by André Couture. Montréal: Les Éditions de L’Homme, 2007

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The Hanging Of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal

The Hanging Of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal

Cooper, Afua 
Toronto: HarperCollins Canada, 2006.

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Black Matters

Black Matters

Cooper, Afua and Wilfried Raussert 
Fernwood Publishing, 2020.

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Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter Canada

Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter Canada

Diverlus, Rodney, Sandy Hudson and Syrus Marcus Ware, Editors
Winnipeg: University of Regina Press, 2020.

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Daughters of Silence

Daughters of Silence

Fisseha, Rebecca
Goose Lane, 2019.

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They Call Me George

They Call Me George: The Untold Story of Black Train Porters and the Birth of Modern Canada

Foster, Cecil
Windsor: Biblioasis, 2019

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Where Race Does Not Matter: The New Spirit of Modernity

Where Race Does Not Matter: The New Spirit of Modernity

Foster, Cecil
Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2005.

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A Place Call Heaven. 2nd edn.

A Place Call Heaven. 2nd edn.

Foster, Cecil
Toronto: Harper Collins, 1996.

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Black Writers Matter

Black Writers Matter

French, Whitney. Ed.
University of Regina Press, 2019.

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Black refugees in Canada

Black refugees in Canada: accounts of escape during the era of slavery.

Hendrick, George and Willene Hendrick 
Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co, 2010.

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The Illegal

The Illegal

Hill, Lawrence
Harper Collins Canada, 2015.

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Any Known Blood

Any Known Blood

Hill, Lawrence
Harper Collins 2011

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Black Berry, Sweet Juice On Being Black and White in Canada

Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada

Hill, Lawrence
Harper Collins Canada, 2010.

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The Book of Negroes

The Book of Negroes

Hill, Lawrence 
Harper Collins, 2007

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Things Are Good Now

Things Are Good Now

Ibrahim, Djamila 
House of Anansi Press, 2018.

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The New Race

The New Race

Johnson, William H.H. & Jade Ferguson 
Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University, 2020.

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Performing Female Blackness

Performing Female Blackness

Keleta-Mae, Naila 
Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2021

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Magnetic Equator

Magnetic Equator

Kellough, Kaie
Penguin Random House, 2019.

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Under the Gaze: Learning to be Black in White Society.

Under the Gaze: Learning to be Black in White Society.

Kelly, Jennifer
Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 1996.

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They Said This Would Be Fun

They Said This Would Be Fun

Martis, Eternity 
Penguin Random House, 2020.

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North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955

North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955

Mathieu, Sarah-Jane 
The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

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Policing Black Lives

Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

Maynard, Robin
Fernwood Publishing, 2017

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Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging

Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging

McWatt, Tessa 
Penguin Random House Canada, 2020 

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Shut Up You're Pretty

Shut Up You're Pretty

Mutonji, Téa
Arsenal Press, 2019

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Towards an African Canadian Art History: Art, Memory, and Resistance

Towards an African Canadian Art History: Art, Memory, and Resistance

Nelson, Charmaine A., Ed.
Concord, Ontario: Captus Press, 2018

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Slavery, Geography, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica

Slavery, Geography, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica

Nelson, Charmaine A.
London, UK: Routledge/Taylor Francis, 2016

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Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art

Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art

Nelson, Charmaine A 
New York: Routledge, 2010

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Ebony Roots, Northern Soil: Perspectives on Blackness in Canada

Ebony Roots, Northern Soil: Perspectives on Blackness in Canada

Nelson, Charmaine A. 
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars' Press, 2010.
 

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Racism Eh?  : A Critical Inter-Disciplinary Anthology of Race in the Canadian Context.

Racism Eh?

Nelson, Charmaine A. and Nelson, Camille
Concord: Captus Press/Captus University, Publications, 2004

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Blank Essays and Interviews by M. NourbeSe Philip

Blank Essays and Interviews by M. NourbeSe Philip

Philip, M. NourbeSe 
2017.

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Zong!

Zong!

Philip, M. NourbeSe
Wesleyan, 2011

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The Black Notes: Fresh Writing by Black Women and Girls

The Black Notes: Fresh Writing by Black Women and Girls

Prince, Althea, Ed.
Insomniac Press, 2017

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In the Black: New African Canadian Literature

In the Black: New African Canadian Literature

Prince, Althea, Ed.
Insomniac Press, 2012.

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Frying Plantain

Frying Plantain

Reid-Benta, Zalika 
House of Anansi Press, 2019

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Black Like Who: Writing Black Canada

Black Like Who: Writing Black Canada

Walcott, Rinaldo
London: Insomniac Press, 2018.

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Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora and Black Studies

Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora and Black Studies

Walcott, Rinaldo
London: Insomniac Press, 2016.

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Black Life: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom

Black Life: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom

Walcott, Rinaldo and Idil Abdillahi
Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2019 

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Race on trial: Black defendants in Ontario's criminal courts, 1858-1958

Race on trial

Walker, Barrington 
Toronto: Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian legal History by University of Toronto Pres, 2010.

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There’s Something In The Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities

There’s Something In The Water

Walrond, Ingrid R.G.
Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 2018.

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 Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal

Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal

Austin, David

2013

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How the Blacks Created Canada

How the Blacks Created Canada

Fraser, Fil

2010

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Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925

Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925

George Robert Fosty and Darril Fosty

Nimbus Publishing, 2008. 

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Famous Black Canadians

Famous Black Canadians

Heikel, Ramona

2019. 

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In the Black: My Life

In the Black: My Life

Jolly, B. Denham

2017

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African Canadian Leadership: Continuity, Transition, and Transformation

African Canadian Leadership: Continuity, Transition, and Transformation

Tamari Kitossa, Erica S. Lawson, Philip S.S. Howard.

2019. 

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Black Canadians: History, Experiences, Social Conditions

Black Canadians: History, Experiences, Social Conditions

Mensah, Joseph 

Fernwood, 2010

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African Canadians in Union Blue: Volunteering for the Cause

African Canadians in Union Blue: Volunteering for the Cause

Reid, Richard M 

2014

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The Kids Book of Black Canadian History

The Kids Book of Black Canadian History

Rosemary Sadlier and Qijun Wang

2010

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The Black Prairie Archives

The Black Prairie Archives

Vernon, Karina Ed.

2020

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The Blacks in Canada: A History

The Blacks in Canada: A History

Winks, Robin W.  

Second Edition, 2000. 

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