The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power
By: Desmond Cole
4.45
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
A bracing, provocative, and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada's most celebrated and unco…
Want to Read $ 11.99"The false promise of objectivity in journalism reinforces white supremacy."-Desmond Cole, The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power
"it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy—white settlers deny Black communities the necessities of life, then blame us for the social dysfunction that follows."-Desmond Cole, The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power
"This idea that Canada's racial injustices are not as bad as they could be, this notion of Slavery Lite, of Racism Lite, of what my friend calls the "toy version of racism" is a very Canadian way of saying: remember what we could do to you if we wanted to. Passive-aggressive racism is central to Canada's national mythology and identity."-Desmond Cole, The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power
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1. Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
By: Tanya Talaga
4.52
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away fro… read more
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"Rebuilding an inequitable and harmful relationship is not easy. But for the good of all our children – Indigenous and not – the hard work must begin."-Tanya Talaga, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
2. Scarborough
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.19
Format: 208 pages,
Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest ci… read more
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3. The Boat People
By: Sharon Bala
4.50
Format: 282 pages,
When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody … read more
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4. The Break
By: Katherena Vermette
4.36
Format: 39 pages, Paperback
2016 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist When Stella, a young Metis mother, looks out her … read more
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5. This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories
By: None
4.50
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
This Accident of Being Lostis the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winnin… read more
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6. The Tiger Claw
By: Shauna Singh Baldwin
4.24
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Shauna Singh Baldwin first heard of the mysterious story of Noor Inayat Khan (codename Madeleine) a… read more
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7. The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
By: Thomas King
4.65
Format: None pages, ebook
WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize The Inconvenient Indianis at once a "history" and the complete … read more
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8. Rehearsals for Living
By: Robyn Maynard
4.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most importan… read more
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9. Shut Up You're Pretty
By: Téa Mutonji
3.57
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more
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"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty
10. Five Little Indians
By: Michelle Good
4.48
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential sch… read more
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11. I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter
By: David Chariandy
4.25
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Dear… read more
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12. Indians on Vacation
By: Thomas King
3.77
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Meet Bird and Mimi in this brilliant new novel from one of Canada’s foremost authors. Inspired by a… read more
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13. Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
By: Elamin Abdelmahmoud
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An enlightening and deliciously witty collection of essays on Blackness, faith, pop culture, and th… read more
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"We do things out of fear and we do things out of love and no one tells you what happens when you act from both places at once."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
"I am a student of migration stories. I am pulled toward accounts of lives rearranged by the journey from one place to another."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
"It is a profound, transformative gift to have someone see you as you’d like to be seen, even if you don’t see yourself that way."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
"Love is a practice, a trail you carve out by traveling the same path over and over and over until it becomes familiar, until it lights the way home."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
14. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
By: Bob Joseph
4.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to… read more
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15. We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
By: Samra Habib
4.16
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
CANADA READS 2020 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION NA… read more
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"Being surrounded by people who fuel you is intentional."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
"For me, a wedding was an act of necessity, not a fairy tale."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
"The joy of discovery is one of the biggest pleasures you'll ever know."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
"Closure, for me, would mean accepting my circumstances rather than trying to alter them to serve me best."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
16. "Indian" in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power
By: Jody Wilson-Raybould
4.14
Format: 304 pages, ebook
THE #1 BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY A compelling … read more
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17. Bad Cree
By: Jessica Johns
3.92
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more
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"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree
18. The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power
By: Desmond Cole
4.45
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
A bracing, provocative, and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada's most celebrated and unco… read more
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- anti racist
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"The false promise of objectivity in journalism reinforces white supremacy."-Desmond Cole, The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power
"it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy—white settlers deny Black communities the necessities of life, then blame us for the social dysfunction that follows."-Desmond Cole, The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power
"This idea that Canada's racial injustices are not as bad as they could be, this notion of Slavery Lite, of Racism Lite, of what my friend calls the "toy version of racism" is a very Canadian way of s…"-Desmond Cole, The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power
19. From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way
By: Jesse Thistle
4.50
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle—once a high school dropout and now … read more
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20. All Our Relations US Edition: Finding the Path Forward (The CBC Massey Lectures)
By: Tanya Talaga
4.45
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In this vital and incisive work, bestselling and award-winning author Tanya Talaga explores the ala… read more
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"In Ojibwe and Cree culture, leadership didn't mean power; it meant caring."-Tanya Talaga, All Our Relations US Edition: Finding the Path Forward (The CBC Massey Lectures)
21. Denison Avenue
By: Christina Wong
4.17
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more
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22. The Strangers
By: Katherena Vermette
4.10
Format: 336 pages, None
From the bestselling author of The Break comes a staggering intergenerational saga that explores ho… read more
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"Summer was always the worst season. Everyone always complained about winter, but winter was simple, you just didn't go outside. Summer always tried to sneak in where it was not wanted."-Katherena Vermette, The Strangers
23. Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
By: Helen Knott
4.31
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behi… read more
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"What else have I made my responsibility that no one asked me to take on?"-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"Mama's arms felt like ceremony on nights when the ghosts of my past experiences wouldn't let me sleep."-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"The women in my family are medicine. They are backbones and ribcages and hearts. They are whispers in men's ears. They are the guardians that kept us whole."-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"Teetering on the brink of relapse and the edge of insanity. I can't fuck or fight my way out of these feelings, so that's a bitch, but the weather is nice. More cream for your coffee, Edna?"-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
24. Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance
By: Jesse Wente
4.39
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
A prominent Indigenous voice uncovers the lies and myths that affect relations between white and In… read more
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25. The Circle
By: Katherena Vermette
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more
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26. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
By: Michelle Good
4.44
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
Abold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experi… read more
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27. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
By: Alicia Elliott
4.42
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and profound meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America from award… read more
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"If intergenerational trauma can alter DNA, why can’t intergenerational love?"-Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
28. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
By: Robyn Maynard
4.57
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Delving behind Canada's veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the v… read more
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"In the abolitionist journal Voice of the Fugitive, Shadd Cary neatly summed up the Canadian contradiction, calling the white Canadian an “anti-slavery Negro hater"-Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
"slavery never took the form of the large-scale plantations found in the American South, the Caribbean or South America. Plantations, though their establishment was desired by some colonists, were fou…"-Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
29. Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing
By: Clayton Thomas-Muller
3.65
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
For much of his life, Clayton Thomas-Muller's very existence has been scrutinized and vilified. As … read more
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30. They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up
By: Eternity Martis
4.31
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, moving memoir about what it's like to be a student of colour on a predominantly white c… read more
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31. Indigenous Relations: Insights, Tips & Suggestions to Make Reconciliation a Reality
By: Bob Joseph
4.21
Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition
A timely sequel to the bestselling 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act —and an invaluab… read more
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