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Author |
: Eternity Martis |
Publisher |
: McClelland & Stewart |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2021-07-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780771062209 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0771062206 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis They Said This Would Be Fun by : Eternity Martis
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Nonfiction Nominated for the Evergreen Award A powerful, moving memoir about what it's like to be a student of colour on a predominantly white campus. A booksmart kid from Toronto, Eternity Martis was excited to move away to Western University for her undergraduate degree. But as one of the few Black students there, she soon discovered that the campus experiences she'd seen in movies were far more complex in reality. Over the next four years, Eternity learned more about what someone like her brought out in other people than she did about herself. She was confronted by white students in blackface at parties, dealt with being the only person of colour in class and was tokenized by her romantic partners. She heard racial slurs in bars, on the street, and during lectures. And she gathered labels she never asked for: Abuse survivor. Token. Bad feminist. But, by graduation, she found an unshakeable sense of self--and a support network of other women of colour. Using her award-winning reporting skills, Eternity connects her own experience to the systemic issues plaguing students today. It's a memoir of pain, but also resilience.
Author |
: Jessica McDiarmid |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2024-05-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501160295 |
ISBN-13 |
: 150116029X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Highway of Tears by : Jessica McDiarmid
In the vein of the astonishing and eye-opening bestsellers I'll Be Gone in the Dark and The Line Becomes a River, this stunning work of investigative journalism follows a series of unsolved disappearances and murders of Indigenous women in rural British Columbia.
Author |
: Tessa McWatt |
Publisher |
: Random House Canada |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2020-03-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780735277441 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0735277443 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shame on Me by : Tessa McWatt
FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR NON-FICTION Interrogating our ideas of race through the lens of her own multi-racial identity, critically acclaimed novelist Tessa McWatt turns her eye on herself, her body and this world in a powerful new work of non-fiction. Tessa McWatt has been called Susie Wong, Pocahontas and "black bitch," and has been judged not black enough by people who assume she straightens her hair. Now, through a close examination of her own body--nose, lips, hair, skin, eyes, ass, bones and blood--which holds up a mirror to the way culture reads all bodies, she asks why we persist in thinking in terms of race today when racism is killing us. Her grandmother's family fled southern China for British Guiana after her great uncle was shot in his own dentist's chair during the First Sino-Japanese War. McWatt is made of this woman and more: those who arrived in British Guiana from India as indentured labour and those who were brought from Africa as cargo to work on the sugar plantations; colonists and those whom colonialism displaced. How do you tick a box on a census form or job application when your ancestry is Scottish, English, French, Portuguese, Indian, Amerindian, African and Chinese? How do you finally answer a question first posed to you in grade school: "What are you?" And where do you find a sense of belonging in a supposedly "post-racial" world where shadism, fear of blackness, identity politics and call-out culture vie with each other noisily, relentlessly and still lethally? Shame on Me is a personal and powerful exploration of history and identity, colour and desire from a writer who, having been plagued with confusion about her race all her life, has at last found kinship and solidarity in story.
Author |
: Mary Herring Wright |
Publisher |
: Gallaudet University Press |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1563680807 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781563680809 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sounds Like Home by : Mary Herring Wright
New edition available: Sounds Like Home: Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South, 20th Anniversary Edition, ISBN 978-1-944838-58-4 Features a new introduction by scholars Joseph Hill and Carolyn McCaskill Mary Herring Wright's memoir adds an important dimension to the current literature in that it is a story by and about an African American deaf child. The author recounts her experiences growing up as a deaf person in Iron Mine, North Carolina, from the 1920s through the 1940s. Her story is unique and historically significant because it provides valuable descriptive information about the faculty and staff of the North Carolina school for Black deaf and blind students from the perspective of a student as well as a student teacher. In addition, this engrossing narrative contains details about the curriculum, which included a week-long Black History celebration where students learned about important Blacks such as Madame Walker, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and George Washington Carver. It also describes the physical facilities as well as the changes in those facilities over the years. In addition, Sounds Like Home occurs over a period of time that covers two major events in American history, the Depression and World War II. Wright's account is one of enduring faith, perseverance, and optimism. Her keen observations will serve as a source of inspiration for others who are challenged in their own ways by life's obstacles.
Author |
: Reni Eddo-Lodge |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2020-11-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781526633927 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1526633922 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by : Reni Eddo-Lodge
'Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak' The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to understand race relations in Britain today. THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION NARRATIVE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE JHALAK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR A BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD
Author |
: Tyler Enfield |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1773101307 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781773101309 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Like Rum-drunk Angels by : Tyler Enfield
Featured in The Globe and Mail's Winter books preview: 36 reads to get you through till spring On 49th Shelf's Most Anticipated: Spring 2020 Fiction Preview List On CBC Books' list of 47 works of Canadian fiction to watch for in spring 2020 The Coen Brothers meets Kurt Vonnegut. Francis Blackstone is a fourteen-year-old gunslinger with a heart of gold. He's fallen for the mayor's daughter and resolves to make his mark, and his fortune, to win her favour. And what better way than to rob a Manhattan Company bank? Enter Bob Temple, the volatile outlaw who takes Francis under his wing-- though not without a degree of suspicion-- and so begins the adventures of the Blackstone Temple Gang as they crisscross the west in search of treasure, redemption, and the possibility of requited love. After an encounter with a rival gang, Francis and Bob Temple are chased over the Sierras to California, where they enjoy unexpected fame as gentleman bandits. But their newfound celebrity brings hardships as well, and when their final job takes a startling turn, Francis is forced to discover what it means to make peace with a world that stands against him. At once a tribute to boyhood enthusiasm and the heroes of classical quests, Like Rum-Drunk Angels is an offbeat, slightly magical, entirely original retelling of Aladdin as an American western.
Author |
: Randy Pausch |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0340978503 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780340978504 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Last Lecture by : Randy Pausch
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Author |
: E. Martis |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1268330899 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis They Said this Would be Fun: Race, Campus Life and Growing Up by : E. Martis
Author |
: Yvonne Shorter Brown |
Publisher |
: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages |
: 383 |
Release |
: 2022-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781771125482 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1771125489 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dead Woman Pickney by : Yvonne Shorter Brown
Dead Woman Pickney chronicles Yvonne Shorter Brown’s life growing up in Jamaica between 1943 and 1965 and teaching in Canada from 1969. Told with stridency and humour, the stories include both personal experience and history. Taking up the haunting memories of childhood, along with persistent racial marginalization of Black people, both globally and in Canada, the author sets out to construct a narrative that at once explains her own origins in the former slave society of Jamaica and traces the outsider status of Africa and its peoples. The author’s quest to understand the absence of her mother and her mother’s people from her life is at the heart of the narrative. The author struggles through life to discover the identity of her mother in the face of silence from her father’s brutal family. In this updated edition she adds a coda, “finding mother”, constructed from archives, genealogy, letters, and journals. Initially published in 2010, this second edition includes expanded text and a foreword by Sonja Boon, author of What the Oceans Remember.
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: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 12 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39076005116541 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
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