We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up: Essays in African Canadian Women's History
Despite the increasing scope and authority of women's studies, the role of Black women in Canada's history has remained largely unwritten and unacknowledged. This silence supports the common belief that Black people have only recently arrived in Canada and that racism is also a fairly recent development. This book sets the record straight. The six essays collected here explore three hundred years of Black women in Canada, from the seventeenth century to the immediate post-Second World War period.
Adrienne Shadd is a historian curator, researcher, and writer. She is a descendant of Abraham Doras Shadd, an abolitionist in the 19th century, and Mary Ann Shadd Cary, a prominent activist and publisher.
Dionne Brand is an award-winning poet, novelist, and essayist.
Other publications from this author include:
- An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading (2020)
- Theory (2018)
- The Blue Clerk (2018)
- Love Enough (2014)
- The Journey from Tollgate to Parkway: African Canadians in Hamilton (2010)
- Ossuaries (2010)
- Inventory (2006)
- What We All Long For (2005)
- THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: Next Stop, Toronto! (2002)
- Thirsty (2002)
- A Map of the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging (2001)
- TALKING ABOUT IDENTITY: ENCOUNTERS IN RACE, ETHNICITY, AND LANGUAGE (2001)
- At the Full and Change of the Moon (1999)
- Bread Out of Stone: Recollections on Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming and Politics (1998)
- Land to Light On (1997)
- In Another Place, Not Here (1996)
- No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario, 1920s-1950s (1991)
- No Language Is Neutral (1990)
- Sans Souci, and Other Stories (1988)
- Rivers have sources, trees have roots: Speaking of racism (1986)
- Chronicles of the Hostile Sun (1984)
- Winter Epigrams and Epigrams to Ernesto Cardenal in Defence of Claudia (1983)
- Primitive Offensive (1982)
- Fore Day Morning: Poems (1978)