BLACK HISTORY MONTH:
books and films

• The Road to Now: A history of Blacks in Montreal, by Dorothy Williams (1997) [Williams teaches at Concordia] 
• Blacks in Montreal, 1628-1986 : an urban demography, by Dorothy Williams (1989)
• Fear of a black nation: race, sex and security in sixties Montreal, by David Austin (2013)
• The fire that time: transnational Black radicalism and the Sir George Williams occupation, edited by Ronald Cummings and Nalini Mohabir (Mohabir teaches at Concordia) (2021)
• Unsettling the Great White North: Black Canadian History, Johnson, M.A. & Aladejebi, F. (2022)
• Harriet’s legacies: race, historical memory and futures in Canada, Cummings, R. & Caple, N. (2022)
• Rehearsals for Living, Maynard, R. & Simpson, L. B. (2022) 
• Schooling the system: a history of Black women teachers, Aladejebi, F. (2021) 
• The long emancipation: moving toward Black freedom, Walcott, R. (2021)
• The long road home: on Blackness and belonging, Thompson, D.E., (2022) 
• Viola Desmond: her life and times, Reynolds, G. & Robson, W. (2018)
• Viola Desmond’s Canada: a history of Blacks and racial segregation in the promised land, Reynolds, G. (2016)
• Towards and African Canadian art history: art, memory and resistance, Nelson, C. (Ed). (2019) 
• Until we are free: reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada, Diverlus, R., Hudson, S., & Ware, S.M. (2020) 
• His name is George Floyd: one man’s life and the struggle for racial justice, Samuels, R. & Olorunnipa, T. (2022)
• We still here: hip hop north of the 49^th parallel, Marsh, C. & Campbell, M.V. (2020) 
• The Black girlhood studies collection, Halliday, A.S. (2019) 
• Settling down and settling up: the second generation in Black Canadian and Black British women’s writing, Medovarski, A. (2019) 
• Les écritures noires du Canada : l'Atlantique noir et la présence du passé, Siemerling, W. & Godbout, P. (2022) 

Cinema Politica recommendations for Black History Month are all available on the Concordia library streaming media server. Just log in and watch!