Stop by the CEC library and check out
the following nonfiction titles during African Heritage Month
“By painstakingly combing through
unpublished archival records of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries, Marcel Trudel gives a human face to the over 4,000 Aboriginal and
Black slaves bought, sold and exploited in colonial Canada.” -Amazon
“In Sister
to Courage, Wanda takes us inside the world she shared with Viola and ten
other brothers and sisters. Through touching and often hilarious stories, she
traces the roots of courage and ambition, good fun and dignity, of the
household that produced Viola Desmond. Tough and compassionate, Viola shines
through beyond the moment she was carried out of Roseland movie theatre for
refusing to sit in the blacks-only section. Viola emerges as a defender of
family and a successful entrepreneur whose momentum was blocked by racism. With
honesty and wit, Wanda Robson tells her own brave story, giving new life to two
remarkable women and the family she loved.” -WorldCat
"The construct of race has always
been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence.
Racist ideas are woven into the fabric of this country, and the first step to
building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past and
present. This book takes you on that journey, showing how racist ideas started
and were spread, and how they can be discredited."--Dust jacket flap
“Writing from the perspective of a
friend, Frederick Joseph offers candid reflections on his own experiences with
racism and conversations with prominent artists and activists about
theirs—creating an essential read for white people who are committed
anti-racists and those newly come to the cause of racial justice.” -Amazon
“In his 2015 cover story for Toronto
Life magazine, Desmond Cole exposed the racist actions of the Toronto police
force, detailing the dozens of times he had been stopped and interrogated under
the controversial practice of carding. The story quickly came to national
prominence, shaking the country to its core and catapulting its author into the
public sphere. Cole used his newfound profile to draw insistent, unyielding
attention to the injustices faced by Black Canadians on a daily basis.
Puncturing the bubble of Canadian smugness and naive assumptions of a
post-racial nation, Cole chronicles just one year - 2017 - in the struggle
against racism in this country.” -WorldCat
“Ingrid R. G. Waldron examines the
legacy of environmental racism and its health impacts in Indigenous and Black
communities in Canada, using Nova Scotia as a case study, and the grassroots
resistance activities by Indigenous and Black communities against the pollution
and poisoning of their communities.” -Amazon
“The New York Times best-selling book
exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their
assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial
inequality.” –WorldCat