A sobering reminder of America’s abhorrent past of slavery, the legacy of which has reverberated its legacy well into the present day, Solomon Northup’s memoir is a fully engrossing chronicle of a free man living in New York State who...
Anti-Racist Resources
Collection of titles for education on being anti-racist. Titles focus on both Black, Indigenous, and POC topics and histories, as well as books on how to be an ally including topics on confronting Racism and White Fragility.
- Auteur:Northup, SolomonSommaire:
- Auteur:Wright, RichardSommaire:
Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful stories collected here concerns an aspect of the lives of black people in the post-slavery era, exploring their resistance to white racism and oppression.
- Auteur:Smucker, BarbaraSommaire:
Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom. Every day that she spends huddled in the slave trader’s wagon travelling south or working on the brutal new plantation, she thinks...
- Auteur:Regan, PauletteSommaire:
"In 2008, Canada established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to mend the deep rifts between Aboriginal peoples and the settler society that created Canada's notorious residential school system. Unsettling the Settler Within argues...
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"An anthology of writing addressing the most urgent issues facing the Black community in Canada. The killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012 by a white assailant inspired the Black Lives Matter movement, which quickly spread outside the...
- Auteur:Kel, PaulSommaire:
In 2008 the United States elected its first black president, and recent polls show that only twenty-two percent of white people in the United States believe that racism is a major societal problem. On the surface, it may seem to be in...
- Auteur:Arnove, Anthony, Zinn, HowardSommaire:
Here are selected testimonies to living history--speeches, letters, poems, songs--offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. New voices featured in this tenth...
- Auteur:Joseph, Peniel E.Sommaire:
An acclaimed chronicler of the Civil Rights Movement, Peniel Joseph presents this sweeping overview of a key component of the struggle for racial equality--the Black Power movement. This is the story of the men and women who sacrificed...
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We Still Demand! recovers vibrant and unsung histories of sex and gender activism across Canada from the 1970s to the present. Departing from conventional accounts, this book demonstrates the varied nature of resistance and the...