Dr. Jean Augustine First African Canadian woman elected to Parliament in 1993. Currently Secretary of State for Multiculturalism and Status of Women.

Black History Month Resources   A selection of books and videos available for borrowing from the College of New Caledonia Library 3330 – 22nd Ave. Prince George BC V2N 1P8 Phone 561-5811

 

Abolitionism : the Brazilian antislavery struggle (HT 1128 .N213)                          

The African diaspora : interpretive essays (GN 645 .A36)                             

The African experience in Spanish America, 1502 to the present day (F 1419 .B55 R68)                      

Africans abroad : a documentary history of the Black Diaspora in Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean during the age of slavery (HT 861 .A4)                             

Africville : the life and death of a Canadian Black community (FC 2350 .B43 C55 1999)                 

Against all odds : the story of William Peyton Hubbard, black leader and municipal reformer (FC 3097.26 .H82 H82 1987)

Althea Gibson. 1 video (57 min.). Althea Gibson overcame unbelievable odds to achieve international success and acclaim. Her journey from the violent streets of Harlem to the royal courts of Wimbledon reveals her strength of character and her remarkable composure in the face of racial prejudice. (GV 994 .G5 A58 VTAPE)

The Apartheid regime : political power and racial domination (DT 763 .A725)                         

The Art of being Black : the creation of Black British youth identities (DA 125 .N4 A54 1996)                   

Before color prejudice : the ancient view of Blacks (GN 496 .S65 1983)                       

Believing identity : Pentecostalism and the mediation of Jamaican ethnicity and gender in England (BR 1644.5 .G7 T68 1997)                  

Black Canadians : a long line of fighters (FC 106 .B43 T84)                       

Black chronology : from 4000 B.C. to the abolition of the slave trade (DT 17 .D5 1983)                       

Black clubs in Bermuda; ethnography of a play world (F 1640 .N4 M3 1973)                     

Black History Month celebrations at the College of New Caledonia, Feb. 22, 2003. 1 video (90 min.). Features a Keynote address by The Honourable Mr. Justice S.R. Romilly of the Supreme Court of British Columbia. (FC 106 .B6 R65 2003 VTAPE)              

Black music of two worlds (ML 3556 .R6)                           

Black presence in multi-ethnic Canada (FC 106 .B43 B59)                       

Blacks in Atlantic Canada. 1 slide set (30 slides). Traces the history of Black settlement in the Atlantic provinces from the period of the French regime to the present and their struggles to obtain decent land, basic education, adequate housing and social and economic equality. (FC 59 .C35 V.80 SLIDE)                  

The Blacks in Canada : a history (FC 106 .B6 W55 1997)                    

Blacks in deep snow : black pioneers in Canada (FC 106 .B43 T49)                        

Colour, class, and the Victorians : English attitudes to the Negro in the mid-nineteenth century (DA 125 .N4 L67 1978)  

Colour-coded: a legal history of racism in Canada, 1900-1950. (KE 4395 .A7 B32 1999)                 

Decoding corporate camouflage : U.S. business support for apartheid (DT 763 .S318)                          

Destroy this temple; the voice of Black power in Britain (DA 122 .N4 E33 1971B)

End racism awards 2000. (B.C.). (FC 104 .E52 2000)                  

Evelyn Williams. 1 video (28 min.). Portrayal of Evelyn Williams, activist who protested oil and gas operations on her land. Covers her family's history in the South, slavery's effect on her heritage, and the black culture. (HN 49 .W6 E93 1995 VTAPE)              

The eye of the storm. 1 video (25 min.). This documentary explores the nature of prejudice in a dramatic third grade classroom experiment conducted in a small Midwestern town, a town without ghettos, blacks, or campus unrest. It demonstrates how quickly wholesome, friendly schoolchildren can be infected with the ugly virus of discrimination. Host and narrator is Bill Buetel of ABC News. (BF 723 .P75 E93 1970 VTAPE)            

Fire on the water : an anthology of black Nova Scotian writing. v.1. Early and modern writers, 1785-1935. (PS 8235 .B53 F57 1991 V.1)              

Forgotten Canadians, the blacks of Nova Scotia. (FC 2350 .N6 H4)                         

The Freedom-seekers : blacks in early Canada (FC 106 .N4 H55 1981)                    

The French encounter with Africans : white response to Blacks, 1530-1880 (DT 33.3 .C63)                          

Go do some great thing : the Black pioneers of British Columbia (FC 3850 .N6 K5)                         

A History of blacks in Canada : a study guide for teachers and students (FC 106 .B43 W35)                        

Hymn to freedom. 1 video (60 min.). Part four of the series documents the history of Blacks in British Columbia. (FC 106 .B6 H95 1994 VTAPE PT.4)

I have a dream. 1 video (25 min.). Martin Luther King’s passionate and eloquent speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963. (E 185.97 .K5 I24 1988 VTAPE)        

Imitation of life. 1 video (111 min.). The lives of a widow and her housekeeper are united first in mutual need, then success and ultimately, in heartache in this Academy Award nominated film. Louise Beavers plays Delilah, a black woman whose light-skinned teenager rejects her mother and her race. (MOVIES PN 1993.2 .I527 1934A VTAPE)            

Journey to justice. 1 video (48 min.). The program pays tribute to a group of Canadians who took racism to court in the fight for Black civil rights.  The film documents the struggle of six people between the 1930s to the 1950s who refused to accept inequality: Viola Desmond, Fred Christie, Hugh Burnette, Bromley Armstrong, Donald Willard Moore and Stanley G. Grizzle. (FC 106 .B6 J68 2000 VTAPE)

Leading the way: Black women in Canada. (FC 106 .B6 S23 1994)             

Literary writings by Blacks in Canada : a preliminary survey (PS 8235 .B53 E5 1988)               

Living under apartheid : aspects of urbanization and social change in South Africa (HT 148 .S6 L58 1982)                  

The loyal Blacks (DT 516.7 .W54 1976)

Loyalties. 1 video (58 min.). The story of two women whose meeting brought together two halves of a whole story: that of slave owner and slave. Dr. Ruth Whitehead and Carmelita Robertson embark on a journey to Charleston, South Carolina, in search of their connection, where the two come to terms with the cruelty of the past. (FC 2350 .B6 L69 1999 VTAPE)                    

Man against work. Includes article: Young Blacks vs. the work world. (HD 8072 .Z54)                          

Mandela. 1 video (135 min.). The real life struggle of South Africa's courageous human rights activist, Nelson Mandela, is movingly told in this powerful, critically-acclaimed film.  The film traces his life from his co-founding of the National African Congress which organized South African blacks against apartheid, to his trial for treason and lengthy imprisonment. He was still in prison at the time this film was made. (MOVIES PN 1993.2 .M254 1987A VTAPE)          

Mandela and deKlerk. 1 video (114 min.). The riveting story of the secret negotiations that finally resulted in the end of apartheid and the birth of a new democratic nation in South Africa. (MOVIES PN 1993.2 .M255 1997a VTAPE)

Man's most dangerous myth : the fallacy of race influences (GN 280 .M59 1997)                       

Martyrs and fanatics : South Africa and human destiny (DT 763 .D7) 

Mississippi burning. 1 video (127 min.). A film about the disappearance of three young civil rights workers in a small Mississippi town in 1964. (MOVIES PN 1993.2 .M577 1988a Vtape)                           

The Negro impact on Western civilization (E 185 .R83 1970B)                       

Negro in northern Brazil : a study in acculturation. (F 2659 .N4 E3)       

One world, many cultures. Includes article: Antidisestablishmentarianism. (PE 1417 .O57 2001)                  

Persistent peoples : cultural enclaves in perspective. Includes article: Blacks in the United States: the creation of an enduring people? (GN 495.4 .P45)                          

A place called heaven : the meaning of being Black in Canada (FC 106 .B6 F67 1996)                    

Playing in the dark : whiteness and the literary imagination (PS 173 .N4 M67 1992)                    

Race and the social sciences. (E 185.61 .R2)                           

Racial discrimination in Canada : the Black experience (FC 4 .C36 N.41)                         

Reading racism and the criminal justice system (E 5001 .Z9 R43 1994)                                                            

Red, white, and black : the peoples of early America. A history text of America's colonial period emphasizing the interaction of three cultures--colonialists, Indians, and blacks. (E 188 .N37 1974)  

Reel racism: confronting Hollywood’s construction of Afro-American culture. (PN 1995.9 .N4 R59 2000)                   

Remember Africville. 1 video (35 min.). Africville, a small black settlement, lay within the city limits of Halifax, Nova Scotia in the 1960s. The families who lived there were uprooted and their homes demolished in the name of urban renewal and integration. Now, more than 20 years later, former residents, their descendants and some of the decision-makers speak out and with the help of archival photographs and films tell the story of that painful relocation. (FC 2350 .B43 R45 1991 VTAPE)

The Road taken. 1 video (48 min.). Documents the experience of Blacks who worked as sleeping-car porters on Canada’s railways from the early 1900’s to the 1960’s. (FC 106 .B6 R63 1996 Vtape) 

The Same river twice: the Colour Purple [film], ten years later. (PS 3573 .A425 Z47 1996)        

Saul Alinsky went to war. 1 video (58 min.). Saul Alinsky, controversial professional organizer, goes to war against the conditions that keep the poor in poverty. The film shows how he helps Black ghettos in the United States find an effective, non-violent method of fighting for their rights. (HN 90 .C6 S28 1968 VTAPE)

Scratching the surface: Canadian, anti-racist, feminist thought. (HQ 1453 .S37 1999)               

Slaves and missionaries : the disintegration of Jamaican slave society, 1787-1834 (HT 1096 .T87 1982)

Some Black women: profiles of Black women in Canada. (FC 106 .B6 B73 1993)                     

South Africa : the struggle for reform (JL 1 .C8 NO.87-12 1994 MAY)             

Speak it!: from the heart of black Nova Scotia. 1 video (29 min.). Four Black high school students living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, describe their experiences of being young and Black today. (FC 2050 .B6 S64 1993 VTAPE)             

Speakers for the dead. 1 video (48 min.). The program reveals the turmoil stirred up by desecrated graves and underlines the hidden history of Blacks in Canada.  In 1930s rural Ontario, farmer Bill Reid buried the tombstones of a Black cemetery under a pile of broken rocks to make way for a potato patch.  In the 1980s, descendants of the original settlers, Black and White, came together to restore the Priceville cemetery--but there were hidden truths no one wanted to discuss. (FC 3100 .B6 S63 2000 VTAPE)             

The Spirit of Canada. Includes chapter on Freedom-Seekers: Follow the drinkin’ gourd. The Underground Railroad. A visit from the slave catcher. (PS 8237 .C35 S68 2001)

To Sir with Love 2. 1 video (92 min.). Sydney Poitier reprises his role as an extraordinary teacher in a tough multi-racial Chicago high school. (MOVIES PN 1993.2 .T6517 1997a VTAPE)

Understanding race. 1 video (52 min.).  Race: no gene has substantiated it and no scientist has quantified it, yet it continues to polarize the world’s populations like no other concept. The program examines the history and power of the artificial distinction called “race” viewing it within historical, scientific and cultural contexts. (HT 1521 .U52 1999 VTAPE)    

White mice. 1 CD-ROM (55 min.). The story of two roommates who happen to be rodents. Through their rhythmic language and stylistic presentation, the two dissect the racism at the core of Canadian society.  (FC 104 .O36 2000 CDISC)

White supremacy : a comparative study in American and South African history (E 184 .A1 F73 1981)                     

Women and the ancestors : Black Carib kinship and ritual (F 1505.2 .C3 K47 1983)

Women’s experience of racism: how race and gender interact. (HQ 1453 .W656 2002)

Feb. 2004