Check out these Black History resources available through
Queen’s OMNI (library):
Books/Articles:
We're rooted here and they can't pull us up: essays in African Canadian women's history, Peggy Brustow (contributor), available online
The Little Black School House: Revealing the Histories of Canada's Segregated Schools— A Conversation with Sylvia Hamilton, Breanna Howard and Sarah E.K Smith, available online and through Joseph Stauffer Library
North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes, Harvey Amani Whitfield, 1974, available online and through Joseph Stauffer Library
When and where I enter: the impact of Black women on race and sex in America, Paula Giddings, 1986, available through Joseph Stauffer Library
The Promised Land: History and Historiography of the Black Experience in Chatham-Kent's Settlements and Beyond, Boulou de b'Beri (Editor) and Nina Reid-Maroney (Editor) and Handel K. Wright (Editor), 2014, available online
Odysseys home: mapping African-Canadian literature, George Elliot Clarke, 2002, available online and through Joseph Stauffer Library
Videos/Documentaries:
How Much Do You Know about Black History in Canada?, CBC Broadcast, 2017, available online
From The Library of Black History: Black Hollywood, Tony Brown Productions, 1989, available online
The History of Black Music: Part 1, Tony Brown Productions, 2003, available online
White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books, California Newsreel, 2012, available online
Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story, California Newsreel, 2008, available online
Other books/essays (these are not necessarily available through Queen’s Library, but are part of a project called The Black Lives Canada Syllabus):
Black Like Who by Rinaldo Walcott
Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex & Security in Sixties Montreal by David Austin
We’re Rooted Here & They Can't Pull Us Up by P. Bristow, L. Carty, A. Cooper, S. Hamilton, A. Shadd,
Scratching the Surface: Canadian Anti-Racist Feminist Thought by Enakshi Dua and Angela Robertson
Science quarrels sculpture: The politics of reading Sarah Baartman by Katherine McKittrick
Piece of my heart: A lesbian of colour anthology by Makeda Silvera
Viola Desmond's Canada: A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land by Graham Reynolds
North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955 by Sarah-Jane Mathieu
The Road to Now: A History of Blacks in Montreal by Dorothy Williams
Deemed Unsuitable: Blacks from Oklahoma Move to the Canadian Prairies in Search of Equality by Bruce R. Shepard
The First Black Prairie Novel by Katrina Vernon
Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature by Wayde Compton
No Place Like Home: African Refugees and the Emergence of a New Queer Frame of Reference by Notisha Massaquoi
Let The Niggers Burn: The Sir George Williams Affair & its Caribbean Aftermath by Dennis Forsythe
The Ethics of learning from Rwandan survivor communities by Umwali Sollange & MJ Rwigema
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
Any Known Blood by Lawrence Hill
On the destruction of Black communities: Razing Africville by Jennifer Nelson
Being Brown: A Very Public Life by Rosemary Brown
Natural Woman: The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women’s Literature by Sharon Morgan Beckford
On being Black in Canada: Black Berry, Sweet Juice by Lawrence Hill
A Place Called Heaven by Cecil Foster
Moving Beyond Borders: A History of Black Canadian and Caribbean Women in the Diaspora by Karen Flynn
Black Canadians by Joseph Mensah
Tireless champion for just causes : memoirs of Bromley L. Armstrong by Bromley Armstrong
My name's not George: The story of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters by John Cooper
Ma-Ka Diasporic Juks: Contemporary Writing by Queers of African Descent by Debbie Douglas & co.
Niggers This Is Canada by Odimumba Kwamdela
Race On Trial: Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts by Barrington Walker
Colour Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950 by Constance Backhouse
My Name's Not George: The Story of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Personal Reminiscences of Stanley G. Grizzle by Stanley G. Grizzle with John Cooper
The Hanging of Angelique by Afua Cooper
Native Song by David Woods
The Meeting Point by Austin Clarke
‘Membering by Austin Clarke
Constellations of Black Radical Imagining Black Arts and Popular Education (anthology) editors: Luam Kidane and Hawa Mire
Live from the Afrikan Resistance by El Jones
Black Confrontation in Sixties Halifax by James W. St. G. Walker
Black Geographies and the Politics of Place by Katherine McKittrick (Editor), Clyde Woods (Editor)
Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle by Katherine McKittrick
Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought by Notisha Massaquoi (Editor), Njoki Nathani Wane (Editor)
The Skin I’m In: I’ve been interrogated by police more than 50 times—all because I’m black by Desmond Cole