Canadian and Black
How do you define Canadian? How do you define Black? Is definition the same as identity, and does identity shift over time and place?
Is there any point in definitions?
Maybe the key is exploration, and maybe that's what Black History month is really about.
Position as desired:exploring African Canadian identity: photographs from the Wedge Collection
by Julie Crooks and Kenneth Montague
by Fil Fraser
Black Canadians: history, experience, social conditions
by Joseph Mensah
Black Like Who? Writing Black Canada
by Rinaldo Walcott
Ontario's African-Canadian Heritage: Collected writings by Fred Landon, 1918-1967
ed. by Karolyn Smardz Frost
Blacks in Deep Snow: Black pioneers in Canada
by Colin A. Thomson
Black Ice: the lost history of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritmes, 1895-1925
by George Robert Fosty
The Black Battalion:1916-1920: Canada's best kept military secret
by Calvin W. Ruck
Black Canadians: A long line of fighters
By Headley Tulloch
Go to school, you're a little black boy: The Honourable Lincoln Alexander: a memoir
also as an e-book
Far From Over: the music and life of Drake, the unofficial story
by Dalton Higgins
also as an e-book
See more recommended reading in the Black History Month reading list.
For those interested in family history, see the Research Guide to Black Genealogy.
And there are still free library programs coming for the 2014 celebration.
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How do you define Canadian? How do you define Black? Is definition the same as identity, and does identity shift over time and place? – what a way to start, provokes inner-reflection