African-Canadian & People of Colour
Helpful Resources and Supports:
- ONE VISION ONE VOICE: Changing the Ontario Child Welfare System to Better Serve African Canadians – http://www.oacas.org/what-we-do/onevisiononevoice/
- Unite Against Hate! is a social-profit organization providing anti-racist education resources and support to Brantford & surrounding areas – https://www.uniteagainsthate.ca/
Community Contacts:
- Imagine Brantford – https://m.facebook.com/imaginebrantford/
- Brantford Carribbean Association – https://m.facebook.com/brantfordcaribbean/
- Laurier Students’ Public Interest Research Group (LSPIRG) – https://www.lspirg.org/
- OACAS One Vision One Voice – Keishia Facey, Project Manager of Phase III – onevisiononevoice@oacas.org
Learning Materials for Adults
Again, the road to equity begins with conversations and continual learning. History has primarily been documented from a white male lens. Below you will find information – provided from different lens and perspectives – that can help lead to a better understanding of how and why there is a disconnect that continues to promulgate inequities today. * = Canadian content
- * Ontario Black History Society – https://blackhistorysociety.ca/
- * Small Squared – Forgetting to celebrate our diversity
- * Grand River Branch United Empire Loyalists’ Association of Canada – “Remembering African-American Canadian Settlement in Brantford” – http://www.grandriveruel.ca/Newsletter_Reprints/99v11n1African_Canadian.htm
Biographies and Personal Narratives:
- * Alexander, Lincoln. Go To School, You’re a Little Black Boy
- Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time
- Baldwin, James. Notes of a Native Son
- * Brand, Dionne. Bread Out of Stone: Recollections, Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming, Politics
- Coates, T. Between the World and Me
- Jenkins, Morgan, This Will be My Undoing
- Keys, Alicia. More Myself: A journey (unabridged)
- Mailhot, Therese Marie, Heart Berries
- Malcolm X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Mandela, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom
- Obama, Barack. Dreams From My Father: A story of race and inheritance
- Obama, Michelle. Becoming
- Noah, Trevor. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African childhood
- Wright, Richard. Black Boy
- Wright, Richard. Native Son
Letters from Black Canadians (a series in *Macleans, June 2020) – https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-weight-of-change-should-not-rest-on-the-shoulders-of-black-people/
- Desmond Cole
- Andray Domise
- Esi Edugyan
- Lawrence Hill
- Sandy Hudson
- Eternity Martis
- Rinaldo Walcott
- Ian Williams