<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[subject results for "Black people — Race identity."]]></title><description><![CDATA[subject results for "Black people — Race identity."]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/hpl/rss/search?query=%22Black%20people%20%E2%80%94%20Race%20identity.%22&amp;searchType=subject&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 07:51:06 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Disorientation]]></title><description><![CDATA[With that one eloquent word, disorientation, Ian Williams captures the impact of racial encounters on racialized people—the whiplash of race that occurs while minding one's own business. Sometimes the consequences are only irritating, but sometimes they are deadly. Spurred by the police killings and street protests of 2020, Williams realized he could offer a perspective distinct from the almost exclusively America-centric books on race topping the bestseller lists, because of one salient fact: he has lived in Trinidad (where he was never the only Black person in the room), in Canada (where he often was), and in the United States (where as a Black man from the Caribbean, he was a different kind of "only"). Inspired by the essays of James Baldwin, in which the personal becomes the gateway to larger ideas, Williams explores such things as the unmistakable moment when a child realizes they are Black; the ten characteristics of institutional whiteness; how friendship forms a bulwark against being a target of racism; the meaning and uses of a Black person's smile; and blame culture—or how do we make meaningful change when no one feels responsible for the systemic structures of the past. With these essays, Williams wants to reach a multi-racial audience of people who believe that civil conversation on even the most charged subjects is possible. Examining the past and the present in order to speak to the future, he offers new thinking, honest feeling, and his astonishing, piercing gift of language.--Amazon.ca.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C698886</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C698886</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Williams, Ian]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/698886125</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Being Black in the World</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781039000223/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[One Drop]]></title><description><![CDATA["Explores the extent to which historical definitions of race continue to shape contemporary racial identities and lived experiences of racial difference"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C695038</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C695038</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Blay, Yaba]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/695038125</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Shifting the Lens on Race</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780807073360/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black Like Who?]]></title><description><![CDATA["Twenty years ago Rinaldo Walcott's groundbreaking study of black culture in Canada, Black Like Who?, caused such an uproar upon its publication Insomniac Press has produced a special 20th anniversary edition. With its incisive readings of hip-hop, film, literature, social unrest, sports, music and the electronic media, Walcott's book not only assesses the role of black Canadians in defining Canada, it also argues strenuously against any notion of an essentialist Canadian blackness. As erudite on the issue of American super-critic Henry Louis Gates' blindness to black Canadian realities as he is on the rap, Walcott's essays are thought-provoking and always controversial in the best sense of the word. They have added and continue to add immeasurably to public debate."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C455011</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C455011</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Walcott, Rinaldo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/455011125</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781554832071/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fire This Time]]></title><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C339577</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C339577</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/339577125</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A New Generation Speaks About Race</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781501126345/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Queer Returns]]></title><description><![CDATA["Queer Returns returns us to the scene of multiculturalism, diaspora and queer through the lens of black expression, identity and the political. The essays question what it means to live in a multicultural society, how diaspora impacts identity and culture and how the categories of queer and black and black queer complicate the political claims of multiculturalism, diaspora and queer politics. These essays return us to foundational assumptions, claims and positions that require new questions without dogmatic answers."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C439009</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C439009</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Walcott, Rinaldo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/439009125</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora, and Black Studies</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781554831746/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure, I'll Be your Black Friend]]></title><description><![CDATA["It is a truth universally acknowledged that a good white person of liberal leanings must be in want of a Black friend. In this memoir-in-essays, the author chronicles a lifetime of being the Black friend (see also: foreign kid, boyfriend, coworker, student, teacher, roommate, enemy) in predominantly white spaces."-- From publisher's description.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C685774</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C685774</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philippe, Ben]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/685774125</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Notes From the Other Side of the Fist Bump</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063065062/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raceless]]></title><description><![CDATA["Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to homogeneity. Her parents were white; her friends were white; there was no reason for her to think she was any different. But over time her brown skin and dark, kinky hair frequently made her a target of prejudice. In Georgina's insistently color-blind household, with no acknowledgement of her difference or access to black culture, she lacked the coordinates to make sense of who she was.  It was only after her father's death that Georgina began to unravel the truth about her parentage--and the racial identity that she had been denied. She fled from England and the turmoil of her home-life to live in black communities around the globe--the US, the UK, Nicaragua, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and Morocco--and to explore her identity and what it meant to live in and navigate the world as a black woman. She spoke with psychologists, sociologists, experts in genetic testing, and other individuals whose experiences of racial identity have been fraught or questioned in the hopes of understanding how, exactly, we identify ourselves.  Raceless is an exploration of a fundamental question: what constitutes our sense of self? Drawing on her personal experiences and the stories of others, Lawton grapples with difficult questions about love, shame, grief, and prejudice, and reveals the nuanced and emotional journey of forming one's identity." -- Amazon.com.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C682192</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C682192</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lawton, Georgina]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/682192125</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063009486/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black Gold of the Sun]]></title><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C79368</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C79368</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eshun, Ekow]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/79368125</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Searching for Home in England and Africa</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780141010960/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greyboy]]></title><description><![CDATA[An honest and courageous examination of what it means to navigate the in-between Cole has heard it all before—token, bougie, oreo, Blackish—the things we call the kids like him. Black kids who grow up in white spaces, living at an intersection of race and class that many doubt exists. He needed to get far away from the preppy site of his upbringing before he could make sense of it all. Through a series of personal anecdotes and interviews with his peers, Cole transports us to his adolescence and explores what it's like to be young and in search of identity. He digs into the places where, in youth, a greyboy's difference is most acutely felt: parenting, police brutality, Trumpism, depression, and dating, to name a few. Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World asks an important question: What is Blackness? It also provides the answer: Much more than you thought, dammit.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C877535</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C877535</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brown, Cole]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/877535125</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>Finding Blackness in A White World</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781705276570/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Darker Wilderness]]></title><description><![CDATA[A vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation with archival objects of Black history and memory.    What are the politics of nature? Who owns it, where is it, what role does it play in our lives? Does it need to be tamed? Are we ourselves natural? In  A Darker Wilderness , a constellation of luminary writers reflect on the significance of nature in their lived experience and on the role of nature in the lives of Black folks in the United States. Each of these essays engages with a single archival object, whether directly or obliquely, exploring stories spanning hundreds of years and thousands of miles, traveling from roots to space and finding rich Blackness everywhere.  Erin Sharkey considers Benjamin Banneker’s 1795 almanac, as she follows the passing of seasons in an urban garden in Buffalo. Naima Penniman reflects on a statue of Haitian revolutionary François Makandal, within her own pursuit of environmental justice. Ama Codjoe meditates on rain, hair, protest, and freedom via a photo of a young woman during a civil rights demonstration in Alabama. And so on—with wide-ranging contributions from Carolyn Finney, Ronald Greer II, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Sean Hill, Michael Kleber-Diggs, Glynn Pogue, Katie Robinson, and Lauret Savoy—unearthing evidence of the ways Black people’s relationship to the natural world has persevered through colonialism, slavery, state-sponsored violence, and structurally racist policies like Jim Crow and redlining.  A scrapbook, a family chest, a quilt—and an astounding work of historical engagement and literary accomplishment— A Darker Wilderness  is a collection brimming with abundance and insight.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C873955</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C873955</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/873955125</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Black Nature Writing From Soil to Stars</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781571317346/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Long Road Home]]></title><description><![CDATA[From a leading scholar on the politics of race comes a work of family history, memoir, and insight gained from a unique journey across the continent, on what it is to be Black in North America.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C744929</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C744929</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Thompson, Debra]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/744929125</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>On Blackness and Belonging</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781982182465/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black Berry, Sweet Juice]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lawrence Hill's remarkable novel, Any Known Blood, a multi-generational story about a Canadian man of mixed race, was met with critical acclaim and it marked the emergence of a powerful new voice in Canadian writing. Now Hill, himself a child of a black father and white mother, brings us Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada, a provocative and unprecedented look at a timely and engrossing topic.   In Black Berry, Sweet Juice, Hill movingly reveals his struggle to understand his own personal and racial identity. Raised by human rights activist parents in a predominantly white Ontario suburb, he is imbued with lingering memories and offers a unique perspective. In a satirical yet serious tone, Hill describes the ambiguity involved in searching for his identity — an especially complex and difficult journey in a country that prefers to see him as neither black nor white.   Interspersed with slices of his personal experiences, fascinating family history and the experiences of thirty-six other Canadians of mixed race interviewed for this book, Black Berry, Sweet Juice also examines contemporary racial issues in Canadian society. Hill explores the terms used to describe children of mixed race, the unrelenting hostility towards mix-race couples and the real meaning of the black Canadian experience. It arrives at a critical time when, in the highly publicized and controversial case of Elijah Van de Perre, the son of a white mother and black father in British Columbia, the Supreme Court of Canada has just granted custody to Elijah's mother, Kimberly Van de Perre.   A reflective, sensitive and often humourous book, Black Berry, Sweet Juice is a thought provoking discourse on the current status of race relations in Canada and it's a fascinating and important read for us all.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C806454</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C806454</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hill, Lawrence]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/806454125</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>On Being Black and White in Canada</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781554686582/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Map to the Door of No Return]]></title><description><![CDATA["A Map to the Door of No Return is a timely book that explores the relevance and nature of identity and belonging in a culturally diverse and rapidly changing world. It is an insightful, sensitive and poetic book of discovery"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C771090</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C771090</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brand, Dionne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/771090125</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Notes to Belonging</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781039005815/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black Boys Like Me]]></title><description><![CDATA["Startingly honest, bracing personal essays, from educator and writer Matthew Morris, that explore the intersection of race, Black masculinity, hip-hop culture, and education. This is an examination of the parts that construct my Black character; from how public schooling shapes our ideas about ourselves to how hip-hop and sports are simultaneously the conduit for both Black abundance and Black boundaries. This book is a meditation on the influences that have shaped Black boys like me. What does it mean to be a young Black man with an immigrant father and a white mother living on Indigenous land? In Black Boys Like Me, Matthew Morris grapples with this question, and others related to identity and belonging. He explores the tension between his consumption of Black culture as a child, his teenage performances of the ideas, identities, and values of the culture that often betrayed his identity, and the ways society and the people guiding him--his parents, coaches, and teachers--received those performances. What emerges is a painful journey toward transcending performance altogether, toward true knowledge of the self."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C782243</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C782243</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Morris, Matthew R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/782243125</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Confrontations With Race, Identity, and Belonging</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780735244580/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Expectations]]></title><description><![CDATA["I'd seen the Senator speak a few times before my life got caught up, however distantly, with his, but the first time I can remember paying real attention was when he delivered the speech announcing his run for the Presidency. When David first hears the Senator from Illinois speak, he feels deep ambivalence. Intrigued by the Senator's idealistic rhetoric, David also wonders how he'll balance the fervent belief and inevitable compromises it will take to become the United States's first Black president. Great Expectations is about David's eighteen months working for the Senator's presidential campaign. Along the way David meets a myriad of people who raise a set of questions-questions of history, art, race, religion, and fatherhood, all of which force David to look at his own life anew and come to terms with his identity as a young Black man and father in America"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C828351</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C828351</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cunningham, Vinson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/828351125</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593448236/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Invisible Boy]]></title><description><![CDATA["A narrative that amplifies a voice rarely heard--that of the child at the centre of a transracial adoption--and a searing account of being raised by religious fundamentalists. Harrison Mooney was born to a West African mother and adopted as an infant by a white evangelical family. Growing up as a Black child, Harry's racial identity is mocked and derided, while at the same time he is made to participate in the fervour of his family's revivalist church. Confused and crushed by fundamentalist dogma and consistently abused for his colour, Harry must transition from child to young adult while navigating and surviving zealotry, paranoia and prejudice. After years of internalized anti-Blackness, Harry begins to redefine his terms and reconsider his history. His journey from white cult to Black consciousness culminates in a moving reunion with his biological mother, who waited twenty-five years for the chance to tell her son the truth: she wanted to keep him. This powerful memoir considers the controversial practice of transracial adoption from the perspective of families that are torn apart and children who are stripped of their culture, all in order to fill evangelical communities' demand for babies. Throughout this most timely tale of race, religion and displacement, Harrison Mooney's wry, evocative prose renders his deeply personal tale of identity accessible and light, giving us a Black coming-of-age narrative set in a world with little love for Black children."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C744914</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C744914</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mooney, Harrison]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/744914125</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir of Self-discovery</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781443463935/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Other Talk]]></title><description><![CDATA["Most kids of color grow up talking about racism. They have "The Talk" with their families-the honest talk about survival in a racist world. But white kids don't. They're barely spoken to about race at all-and that needs to change. Because not talking about racism doesn't make it go away. Not talking about white privilege doesn't mean it doesn't exist. The Other Talk begins this much-needed conversation for white kids. In an instantly readable and deeply honest account of his own life, Brendan Kiely offers young readers a way to understand one's own white privilege and why allyship is so vital, so that we can all start doing our part-today"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C701379</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C701379</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kiely, Brendan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/701379125</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Reckoning With Our White Privilege</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781534494046/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dressed in Dreams]]></title><description><![CDATA[From sneakers to leather jackets, a bold, witty, and deeply personal dive into Black America's closet In this highly engaging book, fashionista and pop culture expert Tanisha C. Ford investigates Afros and dashikis, go-go boots and hotpants of the sixties, hip hop's baggy jeans and bamboo earrings, and the #BlackLivesMatter-inspired hoodies of today. The history of these garments is deeply intertwined with Ford’s story as a black girl coming of age in a Midwestern rust belt city. She experimented with the Jheri curl; discovered how wearing the wrong color tennis shoes at the roller rink during the drug and gang wars of the 1980s could get you beaten; and rocked oversized, brightly colored jeans and Timberlands at an elite boarding school where the white upper crust wore conservative wool shift dresses. Dressed in Dreams is a story of desire, access, conformity, and black innovation that explains things like the importance of knockoff culture; the role of “ghetto fabulous” full-length furs and colorful leather in the 1990s; how black girls make magic out of a dollar store t-shirt, rhinestones, and airbrushed paint; and black parents' emphasis on dressing nice. Ford talks about the pain of seeing black style appropriated by the mainstream fashion industry and fashion’s power, especially in middle America. In this richly evocative narrative, she shares her lifelong fashion revolution―from figuring out her own personal style to discovering what makes Midwestern fashion a real thing too.--Amazon.ca.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C495391</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C495391</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ford, Tanisha C.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/495391125</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Black Girl&apos;s Love Letter to the Power of Fashion</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250173539/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take One Candle Light A Room]]></title><description><![CDATA["Fantine Antoine is a travel writer, a profession that keeps her happily away from her Southern California home. When she returns to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of her closest childhood friend, Glorette, she finds herself pulled into the tumultuous life of Glorette?s twenty-two-year-old son?and Fantine?s godson?Victor. After getting involved in a shooting, Victor has fled to New Orleans. Together with her father, Fantine follows Victor, determined to help him avoid the criminal future that he suddenly seems destined for" --Cover, p. 2.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C168080</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C168080</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Straight, Susan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/168080125</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307379535/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take One Candle Light A Room]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fantine Antoine is a travel writer, a profession that keeps her happily away from her Southern California home. When she returns to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of her closest childhood friend, Glorette, she finds herself pulled into the tumultuous life of Glorette's twenty-two-year-old son and Fantine's godson, Victor. After getting involved in a shooting, Victor has fled to New Orleans. Together with her father, Fantine follows Victor, determined to help him avoid the criminal future that he suddenly seems destined for.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C581870</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C581870</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Straight, Susan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/581870125</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307379146/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Razing Africville]]></title><description><![CDATA["Razing Africville examines this history as the prolonged eviction of a community from its own space. By examining a variety of sources - urban planning texts, city council documents, news media, and academic accounts - Jennifer J. Nelson illustrates how Africville went from a slum to a problem to be solved and, more recently, to a public space in which past violence is rendered invisible. Reading historical texts as a critical map of decision-making, she argues that the ongoing measures taken to regulate black bodies and spaces amount to a 'geography of racism.' Through a geographic lens, therefore, she manages to analyse ways in which race requires space and how the control of space is a necessary component of delineating and controlling people."-- Amazon.ca]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C110603</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C110603</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nelson, Jennifer J.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/110603125</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Geography of Racism</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780802092526/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Performing Female Blackness]]></title><description><![CDATA[Performing Female Blackness examines race, gender, and nation in Black life using critical race, feminist and performance studies methodologies.     This book examines what private and public performances of female blackness reveal about race, gender, and nation and considers how the land widely known as Canada shapes these performances. By exploring Black expressive culture in familial, literary, and performance settings, Naila Keleta-Mae theorizes that "perpetual performance" forces people who are read as female and Black to always be figuratively on stage regardless of cultural, political, or historical contexts. Written in poetry, prose, and journal form and drawing from the author's own life and artistic works, Performing Female Blackness is ideal not only for scholars, educators, and students of the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts but also for artists and the general public too.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C842266</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C842266</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Keleta-Mae, Naila]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/842266125</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781771124829/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Invisible Boy]]></title><description><![CDATA[A narrative that amplifies a voice rarely heard—that of the child at the centre of a transracial adoption—and a   searing account of being raised by religious fundamentalists   Harrison Mooney was born to a West African mother and adopted as an infant by a white evangelical family. Growing up as a Black child, Harry's racial identity is mocked and derided, while at the same time he is made to participate in the fervour of his family's revivalist church. Confused and crushed by fundamentalist dogma and consistently abused for his colour, Harry must transition from child to young adult while navigating and surviving zealotry, paranoia and prejudice.  After years of internalized anti-Blackness, Harry begins to redefine his terms and reconsider his history. His journey from white cult to Black consciousness culminates in a moving reunion with his biological mother, who waited twenty-five years for the chance to tell her son the truth: she wanted to keep him.  This powerful memoir considers the controversial practice of transracial adoption from the perspective of families that are torn apart and children who are stripped of their culture, all in order to fill evangelical communities' demand for babies. Throughout this most timely tale of race, religion and displacement, Harrison Mooney's wry, evocative prose renders his deeply personal tale of identity accessible and light, giving us a Black coming-of-age narrative set in a world with little love for Black children.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C770382</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C770382</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mooney, Harrison]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/770382125</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>A Memoir of Self-discovery</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781443463966/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black in Latin America]]></title><description><![CDATA[Henry Louis Gates Jr. travels to Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Brazil, Mexico and Peru to discover the African influence on Latin America. He examines the shared legacy of colonialism and slavery in a region that imported ten times as many slaves as the United States, and kept them in bondage far longer. Gates finds that the influence of people of African descent has had a massive influence on the history and culture of Latin America and the Caribbean, despite sometimes being forgotten or ignored.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C166222</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C166222</guid><category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/166222125</comments><format>DVD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781608834464/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=&amp;upc=841887014496</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black Boys Like Me]]></title><description><![CDATA[*INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER*  &ldquo; Black Boys Like Me  ignited parts of me I honestly didn't believe any book could ever know. . . . Seldom do incredibly titled books earn their titles. Matthew R. Morris earns this classic title with a classic book about our insides.&rdquo; &mdash;Kiese Laymon, author of  Heavy      Startlingly honest, bracing personal essays from a perceptive educator that bring us into the world of Black masculinity, hip-hop culture, and learning.   This is an examination of the parts that construct my Black character; from how public schooling shapes our ideas about ourselves to how hip-hop and sports are simultaneously the conduit for both Black abundance and Black boundaries. This book is a meditation on the influences that have shaped Black boys like me.  What does it mean to be a young Black man with an immigrant father and a white mother, teaching in a school system that historically has held an exclusionary definition of success? In eight illuminating essays, Matthew R. Morris grapples with this question, and others related to identity and perception. After graduating high school in Scarborough, Morris spent four years in the U.S. on multiple football scholarships and, having spent that time in the States experiencing &ldquo;the Mecca of hip hop and Black culture,&rdquo; returned home with a newfound perspective. Now an elementary school teacher himself in Toronto, Morris explores the tension between his consumption of Black culture as a child, his teenage performances of the ideas and values of the culture that often  betrayed  his identity, and the ways society and the people guiding him&mdash;his parents, coaches, and teachers&mdash;received those performances. What emerges is a painful journey toward transcending performance altogether, toward true knowledge of the self. With the wide-reaching scope of Desmond Cole&rsquo;s  The Skin We&rsquo;re In  and the introspective snapshot of life in  Between the World and Me  by Ta-Nehisi Coates,  Black Boys Like Me  is an unflinching debut that invites readers to create braver spaces and engage in crucial conversations around race and belonging.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C813237</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C813237</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Morris, Matthew R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/813237125</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Confrontations With Race, Identity, and Belonging</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780735244597/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>