Books by and on Black Canadians
Curated by Malinda S. Smith, PhD (Vice Provost, EDI, University of Calgary)


Naturally woman: The search for self in Black Canadian women's literature
Beckford, Sharon Morgan
Toronto: Inanna Publications and Education Inc., 2011.











Africadian History: An Exhibition Catalogue
Clarke. George Elliott
Kentville, N.S.: Gaspereau Press, 2001.

The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power
Cole, Desmond
Penguin Random House Canada, 2020.

After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region
Compton, Wayde
Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2011.

La Pendaison d’Angelique
Cooper, Afua
Translated by André Couture. Montréal: Les Éditions de L’Homme, 2007

The Hanging Of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal
Cooper, Afua
Toronto: HarperCollins Canada, 2006.


Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter Canada
Diverlus, Rodney, Sandy Hudson and Syrus Marcus Ware, Editors
Winnipeg: University of Regina Press, 2020.


They Call Me George: The Untold Story of Black Train Porters and the Birth of Modern Canada
Foster, Cecil
Windsor: Biblioasis, 2019

Where Race Does Not Matter: The New Spirit of Modernity
Foster, Cecil
Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2005.



Black refugees in Canada: accounts of escape during the era of slavery.
Hendrick, George and Willene Hendrick
Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co, 2010.



Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada
Hill, Lawrence
Harper Collins Canada, 2010.



The New Race
Johnson, William H.H. & Jade Ferguson
Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University, 2020.



Under the Gaze: Learning to be Black in White Society.
Kelly, Jennifer
Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 1996.


North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955
Mathieu, Sarah-Jane
The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
Maynard, Robin
Fernwood Publishing, 2017

Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging
McWatt, Tessa
Penguin Random House Canada, 2020


Towards an African Canadian Art History: Art, Memory, and Resistance
Nelson, Charmaine A., Ed.
Concord, Ontario: Captus Press, 2018

Slavery, Geography, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica
Nelson, Charmaine A.
London, UK: Routledge/Taylor Francis, 2016

Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art
Nelson, Charmaine A
New York: Routledge, 2010

Ebony Roots, Northern Soil: Perspectives on Blackness in Canada
Nelson, Charmaine A.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars' Press, 2010.

Racism Eh?
Nelson, Charmaine A. and Nelson, Camille
Concord: Captus Press/Captus University, Publications, 2004



The Black Notes: Fresh Writing by Black Women and Girls
Prince, Althea, Ed.
Insomniac Press, 2017




Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora and Black Studies
Walcott, Rinaldo
London: Insomniac Press, 2016.

Black Life: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom
Walcott, Rinaldo and Idil Abdillahi
Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2019

Race on trial
Walker, Barrington
Toronto: Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian legal History by University of Toronto Pres, 2010.




Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925
George Robert Fosty and Darril Fosty
Nimbus Publishing, 2008.



African Canadian Leadership: Continuity, Transition, and Transformation
Tamari Kitossa, Erica S. Lawson, Philip S.S. Howard.
2019.




