Books by and on Black Canadians
Curated by Malinda S. Smith, PhD (Vice Provost, EDI, University of Calgary)
![Angry Queer Somali Boy](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/ANGRY%20QUEER%20SOMALI%20BOY_0.jpg?itok=xYAk0kb3)
![Naturally woman: The search for self in Black Canadian women's literature](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Naturally%20woman-%20The%20search%20for%20self%20in%20Black%20Canadian%20women%27s%20literature.jpg?itok=-WnBXen4)
Naturally woman: The search for self in Black Canadian women's literature
Beckford, Sharon Morgan
Toronto: Inanna Publications and Education Inc., 2011.
![Everyday Transgressions: Domestic Workers' Transnational Challenge to International Labor Law](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Everyday%20Transgressions-%20Domestic%20Workers%27%20Transnational%20Challenge%20to%20International%20Labor%20Law.jpg?itok=leW4Gpvf)
![Have You Met Nora?](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Have%20You%20Met%20Nora_0.jpg?itok=Kx_GK1WA)
![The Thunder Beneath Us](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/The%20Thunder%20Beneath%20Us.jpg?itok=1joLv10l)
![Theory](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Theory.jpeg?itok=QooQNBe_)
![What We All Long For](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/What%20We%20All%20Long%20For.jpg?itok=o0jY4fO5)
![A Map to the Door of No Return](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/A%20Map%20to%20the%20Door%20of%20No%20Return%20Hardcover.jpg?itok=XBapQh5H)
![I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/I%27ve%20Been%20Meaning%20to%20Tell%20You.jpeg?itok=wYil5sSI)
![Brother](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Brother.jpeg?itok=_tzS73Sd)
!['Membering](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/MEMBERING.jpg?itok=evVn5tIT)
![Execution Poems](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/execution%20poems.jpg?itok=TCt9tlXv)
![Africadian History: An Exhibition Catalogue](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Africadian%20History-%20An%20Exhibition%20Catalogue.jpg?itok=bUh0QN4T)
Africadian History: An Exhibition Catalogue
Clarke. George Elliott
Kentville, N.S.: Gaspereau Press, 2001.
![The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/The%20Skin%20We%27re%20In.jpeg?itok=2J8naGNz)
The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power
Cole, Desmond
Penguin Random House Canada, 2020.
![After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/After%20Canaan.jpg?itok=otz77S2I)
After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region
Compton, Wayde
Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2011.
![La Pendaison d’Angelique](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/la%20pendaison.jpg?itok=OLgBGPUy)
La Pendaison d’Angelique
Cooper, Afua
Translated by André Couture. Montréal: Les Éditions de L’Homme, 2007
![The Hanging Of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/The%20Hanging%20Of%20Angelique.jpg?itok=XfXDi5-W)
The Hanging Of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal
Cooper, Afua
Toronto: HarperCollins Canada, 2006.
![Black Matters](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Black%20Matters.jpg?itok=3nrGrKKJ)
![Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter Canada](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/UNTIL%20WE%20ARE%20FREE.jpg?itok=ekOiuyR1)
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.
![Daughters of Silence](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Daughters%20of%20Silence.jpg?itok=tLgXmh-7)
![They Call Me George](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/They%20Call%20Me%20George.jpg?itok=EyrDe1tc)
They Call Me George: The Untold Story of Black Train Porters and the Birth of Modern Canada
Foster, Cecil
Windsor: Biblioasis, 2019
![Where Race Does Not Matter: The New Spirit of Modernity](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Where%20Race%20Does%20Not%20Matter.jpg?itok=QMZ0VWV0)
Where Race Does Not Matter: The New Spirit of Modernity
Foster, Cecil
Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2005.
![A Place Call Heaven. 2nd edn.](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/A%20Place%20Call%20Heaven.jpg?itok=pCD4EqTw)
![Black Writers Matter](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/BLACK%20WRITERS%20MATTER.jpg?itok=VhuFovPN)
![Black refugees in Canada](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Black%20Refugees%20in%20Canada.jpg?itok=IooUsMAc)
Black refugees in Canada: accounts of escape during the era of slavery.
Hendrick, George and Willene Hendrick
Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co, 2010.
![The Illegal](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/The%20Illegal.jpg?itok=AvzaE0-8)
![Any Known Blood](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Any%20Known%20Blood.jpeg?itok=RjU1JoyT)
![Black Berry, Sweet Juice On Being Black and White in Canada](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Black%20Berry%2C%20Sweet%20Juice.jpg?itok=u1O4mMaE)
Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada
Hill, Lawrence
Harper Collins Canada, 2010.
![The Book of Negroes](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/The%20Book%20Of%20Negroes.jpg?itok=Wdx9L6AG)
![Things Are Good Now](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Things%20Are%20Good%20Now_0.jpg?itok=wHodtcqM)
![The New Race](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/The%20New%20Race_0.jpg?itok=FsC0je_x)
The New Race
Johnson, William H.H. & Jade Ferguson
Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University, 2020.
![Performing Female Blackness](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Performing%20Female%20Blackness_0.jpg?itok=in-AAhna)
![Magnetic Equator](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Magnetic%20Equator_0.jpeg?itok=FDvzOgYe)
![Under the Gaze: Learning to be Black in White Society.](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Under%20the%20Gaze.jpg?itok=C2DU8wVm)
Under the Gaze: Learning to be Black in White Society.
Kelly, Jennifer
Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 1996.
![They Said This Would Be Fun](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/They%20Said%20This%20Would%20Be%20Fun.jpeg?itok=HPc_AIHV)
![North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/North%20of%20the%20Color%20Line.jpg?itok=JsjH3trQ)
North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955
Mathieu, Sarah-Jane
The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
![Policing Black Lives](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Policing%20Black%20Lives.jpg?itok=oaop90U0)
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
Maynard, Robin
Fernwood Publishing, 2017
![Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Shame%20on%20Me.jpeg?itok=T5kC60zj)
Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging
McWatt, Tessa
Penguin Random House Canada, 2020
![Shut Up You're Pretty](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/SHUT%20UP%20YOU%27RE%20PRETTY%20.jpg?itok=z6IvWCpv)
![Towards an African Canadian Art History: Art, Memory, and Resistance](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Towards%20an%20African%20Canadian%20Art%20History.jpg?itok=oC1MufaZ)
Towards an African Canadian Art History: Art, Memory, and Resistance
Nelson, Charmaine A., Ed.
Concord, Ontario: Captus Press, 2018
![Slavery, Geography, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Slavery%2C%20Geography%20and%20Empire%20in%20Nineteenth-Century%20Marine%20Landscapes%20of%20Montreal%20and%20Jamaica.jpg?itok=zP8tQc_U)
Slavery, Geography, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica
Nelson, Charmaine A.
London, UK: Routledge/Taylor Francis, 2016
![Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Representing%20the%20Black%20Female%20Subject%20in%20Western%20Art.jpg?itok=CcFsw8uB)
Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art
Nelson, Charmaine A
New York: Routledge, 2010
![Ebony Roots, Northern Soil: Perspectives on Blackness in Canada](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Ebony%20Roots%2C%20Northern%20Soil.jpeg?itok=ebOI8PUe)
Ebony Roots, Northern Soil: Perspectives on Blackness in Canada
Nelson, Charmaine A.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars' Press, 2010.
![Racism Eh? : A Critical Inter-Disciplinary Anthology of Race in the Canadian Context.](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Racism%2C%20Eh.jpg?itok=SZyGQtUJ)
Racism Eh?
Nelson, Charmaine A. and Nelson, Camille
Concord: Captus Press/Captus University, Publications, 2004
![Blank Essays and Interviews by M. NourbeSe Philip](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Blank-Essays-and-Interviews-by-M.-NourbeSe-Philip.jpg?itok=roXJ7fsi)
![Zong!](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Zong.jpg?itok=KuOL_qDc)
![The Black Notes: Fresh Writing by Black Women and Girls](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/The%20Black%20Notes.jpg?itok=Z-Pg9V91)
The Black Notes: Fresh Writing by Black Women and Girls
Prince, Althea, Ed.
Insomniac Press, 2017
![In the Black: New African Canadian Literature](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/In%20the%20Black.jpg?itok=w_JnapgD)
![Frying Plantain](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Frying%20Plantain.jpg?itok=Yq0rDnpE)
![Black Like Who: Writing Black Canada](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Black%20Like%20Who_0.jpg?itok=APBg58YH)
![Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora and Black Studies](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Queer%20Returns.jpg?itok=EkswzTvG)
Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora and Black Studies
Walcott, Rinaldo
London: Insomniac Press, 2016.
![Black Life: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/BlackLife.jpg?itok=tSndDL5r)
Black Life: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom
Walcott, Rinaldo and Idil Abdillahi
Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2019
![Race on trial: Black defendants in Ontario's criminal courts, 1858-1958](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Race%20on%20Trial.jpg?itok=v-Z6mKwZ)
Race on trial
Walker, Barrington
Toronto: Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian legal History by University of Toronto Pres, 2010.
![There’s Something In The Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Theres%20Something%20In%20The%20Water.jpg?itok=fdkfOcQD)
![Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Fear%20of%20a%20Black%20Nation.jpeg?itok=zXTq9PDS)
![How the Blacks Created Canada](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/How%20the%20Blacks%20Created%20Canada.jpg?itok=krcG7A_y)
![Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/black%20ice.jpg?itok=IoYw171d)
Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925
George Robert Fosty and Darril Fosty
Nimbus Publishing, 2008.
![Famous Black Canadians](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Famous%20Black%20Canadians.jpg?itok=nNvC49TS)
![In the Black: My Life](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/In%20the%20Black-mylife.jpg?itok=S5cdTgwt)
![African Canadian Leadership: Continuity, Transition, and Transformation](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/african-canadian-leadership.jpg?itok=3mFt5HZA)
African Canadian Leadership: Continuity, Transition, and Transformation
Tamari Kitossa, Erica S. Lawson, Philip S.S. Howard.
2019.
![Black Canadians: History, Experiences, Social Conditions](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/Black%20Canadians-%20History%2C%20Experience%2C%20Social%20Conditions.jpg?itok=sRnvhPbr)
![African Canadians in Union Blue: Volunteering for the Cause](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/african-canadians%20in%20union%20blue.jpg?itok=-LpIAVJ7)
![The Kids Book of Black Canadian History](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/The%20Kids%20Book%20of%20Black%20Canadian%20History.jpg?itok=ornBRquv)
![The Black Prairie Archives](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/The%20Black%20Prairie%20Archives.jpg?itok=p5GOy1ln)
![The Blacks in Canada: A History](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-09/The%20Blacks%20in%20Canada.jpg?itok=Px9Db9jv)