Being Black
- Publisher
- Insomniac Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2005
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781895837773
- Publish Date
- Apr 2005
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
Following in the highly personal tradition of essayists such as Dionne Brand and bell hooks, Althea Prince culls thirty years of lived experience into an important new collection, Being Black. A writer and sociologist, Prince tackles the complacency she sees in some manifestations of Black Canadian culture — such as Toronto's popular Caribana festival — as well as in white society's attitudes towards Black culture, as revealed by Prince's involvement with the notorious Writers' Union of Canada-sponsored Writing Thru Race conference.
About the author
Editor Althea Prince was born in Antigua, the Caribbean, and has lived in Canada, the US, and England. She has taught sociology, first at York University and the University of Toronto and now teaches at Ryerson University–The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education, where she won the Kay Livingstone Award in 2011. Dr. Prince is known for her work as an essayist and fiction writer. Her published works include The Politics of Black Women’s Hair (cultural studies), Being Black (cultural studies), Loving This Man (novel), Ladies of the Night (stories), Feminisms and Womanisms. A Women’s Studies Reader (co-editor), and How the Starfish Got to the Sea (children).
Other titles by
Ladies of the Night
Stories
Black Notes
Beyond the Journey
Women's Stories of Settlement and Community Building in Canada
In the Black
New African Canadian Literature
The Politics Of Black Women's Hair
Ladies of the Night and other stories
Feminisms and Womanisms
A Women's Studies Reader