Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought is a collection of articles by Black Canadian feminists centralizing the ways in which Black femininity and Black women’s experiences are integral to...
Women, Black
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Author:Massaquoi, Notisha, Wane, Njoki NathaniSummary: -
Author:VAN RIEL, FransjeSummary:The Crowing of the Roosters is a remakable modern day tale of South Africa's former apartheid regime and one black woman's struggle to free herself from its chains. When Nomfusi Yekani sets her mark at the polling station...
- Author:Solie, KarenSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2006 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and longlisted for the 2006 ReLit Awards. A Globe 100 title in 2005.
Evade your eye. Try to see as others do
what is desired or refused. What went wrong.... -
Author:Brand, DionneSummary: -
Author:Wesley, Gloria AnnSummary:If This Is Freedom continues the story of struggle for Loyalist settlers in Nova Scotia after the American Revolutionary War. In the black settlement of Birchtown, times are especially hard for the former slaves. They face the...
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Author:Chase-Riboud, BarbaraSummary:Born in the colony of Good Hope, South Africa, in 1789, Sarah Baartman was taken to London at the age of twenty by an English surgeon, who promised her fame and fortune. Dubbed the “Hottentot Venus,” she was...
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Author:Wesley, GloriaSummary:The American Revolutionary War is being waged, and the fate of slaves in the colonies is on the line. Sarah Redmond, a slave on a South Carolina plantation, watches as her father steals away in the dead of the night to join the British...
