Digital Book Display: Black Voices and Authors
In our second week celebrating Black History Month, we’re featuring a selection of recent and time-honored Black authors. We have a vibrant and extensive collection of fiction and non-fiction books written by Black authors, which are available in print on our shelves or as ebooks. This is only a sampling of the titles we have in our collection and we are actively purchasing more. Know of a book you wish you could borrow from us? Suggest a purchase!
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Maya Angelou – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Maya Angelou: The Complete Poetry
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Octavia E. Butler – Parable of the Sower (ebook) and Kindred
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Ta-Nehisi Coates – Between the World and Me
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Roxane Gay – Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body and Bad Feminist: Essays
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Langston Hughes – The Collected Works of Langston Hughes
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Zora Neale Hurston – Novels and Stories and Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Claude McKay – Home to Harlem (ebook)
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Angie Thomas – The Hate You Give
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Alice Walker – The Color Purple, In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women, and The Temple of My Familiar
Looking for Canadian authors?:
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André Alexis – Fifteen Dogs
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Dionne Brand – Theory and Love Enough
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Austin Clarke – The Polished Hoe
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Esi Edugyan – Half-Blood Blues
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Minister Faust – The Coyote Kings: Space-Age Bachelor Pad and The Alchemist of Kush (ebook)
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Lawrence Hill – Any Known Blood and The Book of Negroes
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Chelene Knight – Dear Current Occupant: A Memoir (ebook)
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Eternity Martis – They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up
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Ian Williams – Personals
Interested in local perspectives? Watch these Human Library recordings from the MacEwan Human Library project (part of MacEwan’s Black History Month events):
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Rochelle Ignacio – White Palms: A Tale of Identity and Belonging
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James Odera – A Lost Boy
You can also register to atttend our live Human Library readings:
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‘...Still Not Considered….’ by Deborah Dobbins (February 22, 2021 @12:00pm)
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The Many Faces of Me by Cathryn Heslep (February 23, 2021 @12:00pm)
View the full reading list in our catalogue to check the status of our print materials. A green checkmark next to an item in our reading list means it’s available to borrow. A blue checkmark means you can read/watch online.