This database provides an extensive archive of scholarly publications and fictional texts in Black and African Studies. Its goal is to make accessible the work of scholars, writers and artists living in Canada or engaging with Black Canada, including scholars across the humanities and social sciences in LA&PS. Resources listed in the database cover a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields, such as history, sociology, social work, literary criticism, feminist and queer theories, Black Canadian Studies and African Diaspora Studies. It also lists the works of Black Canadian poets, novelists and playwrights.
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The Mother Project (1991)
Djanet Sears
Passages (1991)
Émile Ollivier
Publié par l’Hexagone en 1991, Passages est un roman poignant sur le thème de l’exil, écrit dans une ...
Distorted Mirror: Canada's Racist Face (1991)
Cecil Foster
Why Me (1991)
Lillian Allen
Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence (1991)
M. NourbeSe Philip
Now in its 7th printing: A woman, travelling alone through time, Africa, and unnamed lands, searches for Dr. ...
No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario, 1920s-1950s (1991)
Dionne Brand
Piece Of My Heart: A Lesbian-of-Colour Anthology (1991)
Makeda Silvera
Forging Identities and Patterns of Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (1991)
Patrick Taylor
No Language Is Neutral (1990)
Dionne Brand
A joyful, imagistic discovery of woman as speaker and subject. As a woman, a black, and a lesbian, ...
Whylah Falls (1990)
George Elliott Clarke
The audio edition of George Elliott Clarke's Whylah Falls retains all the energy and beauty of the original poetic novel. ...
Harriet's Daughter (1990)
M. NourbeSe Philip
Remembering G and Other Stories (1990)
Makeda Silvera
The Conception of Winter (1989)
Claire Harris
Powerful yet serene, The Conception of Winter is about women, their friendships, loyalties, and pain. But most of all it ...
Discourse on the Logic of Language (1989)
M. NourbeSe Philip
She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1989)
M. NourbeSe Philip
Brilliant, lyrical, and passionate, this collection from the acclaimed poet M. NourbeSe Philip is an extended jazz riff ...
Arrival of the Snake-Woman (1989)
Olive Senior
The Toronto author Olive Senior's Jamaican birthplace provides the setting for these powerfully engaging stories that span a ...
The Development of Black Theater in America: From Shadows to Selves (1989)
Leslie Sanders
The Narrative of Liberation: Perspectives on Afro-Caribbean Literature, Popular Culture, and Politics (1989)
Patrick Taylor
Proud Empires (1988)
Austin Clarke
Sans Souci, and Other Stories (1988)
Dionne Brand
Double Trouble (1988)
Djanet Sears
Éroshima (1987)
Dany Laferrière
Crime in Trinidad : conflict and control in a plantation society, 1838-1900 (1987)
David Trotman
If You See Truth (1987)
Lillian Allen
Nine Men Who Laughed (1986)
Austin Clarke
Travelling to Find a Remedy (1986)
Claire Harris
La discorde aux cent voix (1986)
Émile Ollivier
Rivers have sources, trees have roots: Speaking of racism (1986)
Dionne Brand
Summer Lightning and Other Stories (1986)
Olive Senior
When Women Rule (1985)
Austin Clarke
Comment faire l'amour avec un Nègre sans se fatiguer (1985)
Dany Laferrière
Talking of trees (1985)
Olive Senior
Entries in this database have been gathered by Jellisa Ricketts as part of the summer 2021 Dean’s Award for Research Excellence project, “Teaching Against Anti-Black Racism and Toward Black Inclusion,” supervised by Professor Andrea Davis.