Want to do some reading to celebrate African Heritage Month and Black History Month but don’t want to venture into the ice and snow? The Patrick Power Library collection includes over 390,000 electronic books (e-books), with many on Black history topics, all available at your fingertips. We have scholarly books to help with your research and books to read when you need a break from studying. Scroll down for a list of suggested e-reading and video streaming.
Doing research on Black history topics? Research Help is available when you need it! Contact the Patrick Power Library Research Help team:
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If you’re feeling brave enough to bundle up and face the cold, stop by the Library to warm up and check out our print book display for African Heritage Month.
E-BOOKS & STREAMING FILMS FOR AFRICAN HERITAGE MONTH
The Hermit of Africville: The Life of Eddie Carvery by Jon Tattrie
“As Black Lives Matter protests swept the world, one of Canada’s greatest anti-racism fighters returned to reclaim the Black space and Black history to which he’s dedicated his life.” – Publisher’s description
The Life of Eddie Carvery. https://nimbus.ca/store/the-hermit-of-africville.html
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler and adapted by Damian Duffy and John Jennings
The graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s classic science fiction novel. Kindred “tells the story of Dana, a young black woman who is suddenly and inexplicably transported from her home in 1970s California to the pre–Civil War South.” – Publisher’s description
The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison, foreward by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Novelist Toni Morrison “reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid?” – Publisher’s description
- Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History and the Presence of the Past and by Winfried Siemerling
- Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture by Grégory Pierrot
- Black Canadians: History, Experiences, Social Conditions by Joseph Mensah
- Black Jacobins Reader by Charles Forsdick & Christian Høgsbjerg
- Black Writers Matter edited by Whitney French
- Blackening Canada: Diaspora, Race, Multiculturalism by Paul Barrett
- Blacks in Canada: A History by Robin Winks
- Book of Negroes directed by Clement Virgo
- Building a Nation: Caribbean Federation in the Black Diaspora by Eric D. Duke
- Canada’s Black Battalion: No. 2 Construction, 1916-1922 by Calvin W. Ruck
- The Caribbean Oral Tradition: Literature, Performance and Practice edited by Hanétha Vété-Congolo
- Displacing Blackness: Power, Planning, and Race in Twentieth-century Halifax by Ted Rutland
- Ebony Roots, Northern Soil: Perspectives on Blackness in Canada by Charmaine Nelson
- Education of African Canadian Children: Critical Perspectives by Awad Ibrahim & Ali A. Abdi
- Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism in Post-Racial America by F. Michael Higginbotham
- In the Black: New African Canadian Literature edited by Althea Prince
- Is Race a Fiction? hosted by Paul Kennedy
- Multiple lenses: Voices from the Diaspora located in Halifax by David Divine
- North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955 by Sarah-Jane Mathieu, Patricia Sullivan & Waldo E. Martin
- Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children: The Hurt, the Hope, and the Healing by Wanda Taylor
- Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature by George Elliott Clarke
- Perspectives on Black Histories in Schools by LaGarrett J. King
- Promised Land: History and Historiography of the Black Experience in Chatham-Kent’s Settlements and Beyond edited by Nina Ruth Reid-Maroney, Handel Kashope Wright & Boulou Ébanda de B’béri
- Racial Discrimination in Canada: The Black Experience by James W. St. G. Walker
- Report on Lord Dalhousie’s History on Slavery and Race by Afua Cooper & Françoise Baylis
- Settling Down and Settling Up: The Second Generation in Black Canadian and Black British Women’s Writing by Andrea Medovarski
- Underground Railroad: Next Stop Toronto by Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper & Karolyn Smardz Frost
- What’s a Black Critic to do? Interviews, Profiles and Reviews of Black Writers by Donna Bailey Nurse
- Why We Write: Conversations with African Canadian Poets and Novelists by H. Nigel Thomas
- The Hate U Give [film]
- Black Panther [Film]
- Only in Canada: Rocky Jones [News Clip]
- Selma [Film]
- Hidden Figures [Film]
- I Am Not Your Negro [Film]
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