Books tagged: Relating To Ethnic Minorities & Groups
1934
By Heidi LM Jacobs
The true story of the first Black team to win an Ontario Baseball Amateur Association championship.
The pride of Chatham’s East End, the Coloured All-Stars featured a roster of players who drew fans to the field with their high energy, no holds-barred style of play while they ... Read more
A Generous Spirit
Edited by Janice Gould
Finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction
A Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth Brant collects the writing of Beth Brant, Mohawk lesbian poet, essayist, and activist. During her life, Brant's work gave voice to an often unacknowledged Two-Spirit identity, ... Read more
A Knife in the Sky
By Marie-Célie Agnant
Translated by Katia Grubisic
In A Knife in the Sky, a journalist's decision to talk and a student?s desire to know puts them in the crosshairs of a murderous dictatorship. As the novel opens, Mika is dangerously engaged in the pursuit of truth during Haiti?s first Duvalier regime. Nearly thirty years later, ... Read more
Changing the Face of Canadian Literature
Edited by Dane Swan
A g call to action and accountability. – Shelagh Rogers
Needless to say, moments like now, when the hurdles to becoming a respected author are at their lowest. When the only hurdles to being published are the quality of your writing and your patience to deal with certain less ... Read more
Chorus of Mushrooms
By Hiromi Goto
Since its publication in 1994, Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms has been recognized as a true classic of Canadian literature. One of the initial entries in NeWest Press' long-running Nunatak First Fiction Series, Hiromi Goto's inaugural outing was recognized at the Commonwealth ... Read more
Cine Star Salon, The
By Leah Ranada
Philippine-born Vancouverite Sophia is most grateful for two things: her modest hair salon and Adrian, her mild-mannered fiancé. She is eager to get married, move away from her highly educated but career-frustrated parents, who believe that their daughter can be so much more ... Read more
Fauji Banta Singh
By Sadhu Binning
Riveting stories from the heart of the Vancouver Sikh experience.
Set among people who emigrated to Canada in the late twentieth century, facing racial animosity and economic insecurity, and moving forward as their lives became more settled, Fauji Banta Singh gives us rare glimpses ... Read more