Books by and on Black Canadians
Curated by Malinda S. Smith, PhD (Vice Provost, EDI, Áù¾ÅÉ«ÌÃ)
Angry Queer Somali Boy
Ali, Mohamed Abdulkarim
Regina: University of Regina Press, 2019.
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
Blackett, AdelleÌý
ILR Press, 2019.
Have You Met Nora?
Blades, NicoleÌý
New York: Dafina, 2017.
The Thunder Beneath Us
Blades, NicoleÌýÌý
New York: Dafina Press, 2016.
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Theory
Brand, Dionne
Toronto: Penguin Random House Canada, 2019.
Land to Light On
Brand, Dionne
Toronto: Penguin Random House Canada, 1997
What We All Long For
Brand, DionneÌý
Vintage Canada, 2005.
A Map to the Door of No Return
Brand, DionneÌý
Double Day Canada, 2001.
I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter
Chariandy, David
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2018
Brother
Chariandy, David
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2017.
'Membering
Clarke, Austin
Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2015.
Execution Poems
Clarke, George ElliottÌý
Kentville, N.S.: Gaspereau Press, 2009.
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
Cole, Desmond
Penguin Random House Canada, 2020.
After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region
Compton, Wayde
Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2011.
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
Cooper, AfuaÌý
Toronto: HarperCollins Canada, 2006.
Black Matters
Cooper, Afua and Wilfried RaussertÌý
Fernwood Publishing, 2020.
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
Fisseha, Rebecca
Goose Lane, 2019.
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
Foster, Cecil
Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2005.
A Place Call Heaven. 2nd edn.
Foster, Cecil
Toronto: Harper Collins, 1996.
Black Writers Matter
French, Whitney. Ed.
University of Regina Press, 2019.
Black refugees in Canada: accounts of escape during the era of slavery.
Hendrick, George and Willene HendrickÌý
Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co, 2010.
The Illegal
Hill, Lawrence
Harper Collins Canada, 2015.
Any Known Blood
Hill, Lawrence
Harper Collins 2011
Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada
Hill, Lawrence
Harper Collins Canada, 2010.
The Book of Negroes
Hill, LawrenceÌý
Harper Collins, 2007
Things Are Good Now
Ibrahim, DjamilaÌý
House of Anansi Press, 2018.
The New Race
Johnson, William H.H. & Jade FergusonÌý
Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University, 2020.
Performing Female Blackness
Keleta-Mae, NailaÌý
Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2021
Magnetic Equator
Kellough, Kaie
Penguin Random House, 2019.
Under the Gaze: Learning to be Black in White Society.
Kelly, Jennifer
Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 1996.
They Said This Would Be Fun
Martis, EternityÌý
Penguin Random House, 2020.
North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955
Mathieu, Sarah-JaneÌý
The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
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
McWatt, TessaÌý
Penguin Random House Canada, 2020Ìý
Shut Up You're Pretty
Mutonji, Téa
Arsenal Press, 2019
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
Nelson, Charmaine A.
London, UK: Routledge/Taylor Francis, 2016
Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art
Nelson, Charmaine AÌý
New York: Routledge, 2010
Ebony Roots, Northern Soil: Perspectives on Blackness in Canada
Nelson, Charmaine A.Ìý
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars' Press, 2010.
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Racism Eh?
Nelson, Charmaine A. and Nelson, Camille
Concord: Captus Press/Captus University, Publications, 2004
Blank Essays and Interviews by M. NourbeSe Philip
Philip, M. NourbeSeÌý
2017.
Zong!
Philip, M. NourbeSe
Wesleyan, 2011
The Black Notes: Fresh Writing by Black Women and Girls
Prince, Althea, Ed.
Insomniac Press, 2017
In the Black: New African Canadian Literature
Prince, Althea, Ed.
Insomniac Press, 2012.
Frying Plantain
Reid-Benta, ZalikaÌý
House of Anansi Press, 2019
Black Like Who: Writing Black Canada
Walcott, Rinaldo
London: Insomniac Press, 2018.
Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora and Black Studies
Walcott, Rinaldo
London: Insomniac Press, 2016.
Black Life: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom
Walcott, Rinaldo and Idil Abdillahi
Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2019Ìý
Race on trial
Walker, BarringtonÌý
Toronto: Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian legal History by University of Toronto Pres, 2010.
There’s Something In The Water
Walrond, Ingrid R.G.
Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 2018.
Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal
Austin, David
2013
How the Blacks Created Canada
Fraser, Fil
2010
Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925
George Robert Fosty and Darril Fosty
Nimbus Publishing, 2008.Ìý
Famous Black Canadians
Heikel,ÌýRamona
2019.Ìý
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In the Black: My Life
Jolly,ÌýB. Denham
2017
African Canadian Leadership: Continuity, Transition, and Transformation
Tamari Kitossa, Erica S. Lawson, Philip S.S. Howard.
2019.Ìý
Black Canadians: History, Experiences, Social Conditions
Mensah, JosephÌý
Fernwood, 2010
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African Canadians in Union Blue: Volunteering for the Cause
Reid,ÌýRichard MÌý
2014
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The Kids Book of Black Canadian History
Rosemary Sadlier and Qijun Wang
2010
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The Black Prairie Archives
Vernon, Karina Ed.
2020
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The Blacks in Canada: A History
Winks, Robin W. Ìý
Second Edition, 2000.Ìý