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Black Again

Losing and Reclaiming My Racial Identity

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

A memoir exploring the psychological impact of cultural assimilation and internalized racism.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Desegregating Comics

Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics

Edited by Qiana Whitted
Rutgers University Press

Desegregating Comics assembles a team of leading scholars to explore how debates about the representation of blackness shaped both the production and reception of Golden Age comics. It examines not only the racial stereotypes that predominated, but also the innovations of black comics artists and the activism of black fans.

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Black and Dyslexic

An Anthology of Lived Experience from a Cultural Perspective

By Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Making History

Visual Arts and Blackness in Canada

UBC Press, On Point Press

Making History is an unprecedented reflection on the positioning of Black history and art within the Canadian cultural landscape.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Clara at the Door with a Revolver

The Scandalous Black Suspect, the Exemplary White Son, and the Murder That Shocked Toronto

UBC Press, On Point Press

Gender, race, and politics in late-nineteenth-century Toronto swirl around this riveting true story of the murder of Frank Westwood and the controversial acquittal of the main suspect, Clara Ford – a cross-dressing Black single mother.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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He Thinks He's Down

White Appropriations of Black Masculinities in the Civil Rights Era

UBC Press

Offering fresh insights and raising important questions, this historical exploration of appropriation traces the ways in which gender and race were negotiated through the popular culture of the Civil Rights Era.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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North to Bondage

Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes

UBC Press

The first history of black slavery in the Maritimes, North to Bondage is a startling corrective to the enduring myth of Canada as a land of freedom at the end of the Underground Railroad.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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African Canadians in Union Blue

Volunteering for the Cause in the Civil War

UBC Press

A landmark account of the background, motivations, and experiences of African Canadian volunteers in America’s Civil War.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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