Title: I know who I am :
Authors: Bobb-Smith, Yvonne,
Date: 2003
Publisher: Women's Press,
Physical description: xix, 250 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: F
Abstract: "Dr. Yvonne Bobb-Smith explores the knowledge and history of resistance of Caribbean women in Canada, using her own journey as a personal place from which to navigate the generalized experience of settlement and adjustment in the Diaspora. I Know Who I Am investigates the stories of forty-five Caribbean women of different backgrounds and heritages. Bobb-Smith presents their conceptualization of the experiences of racism and sexism in their everyday lives and their strategizing resistance. This book is about empowerment in the lives of Caribbean women. This empowerment is seen as an enabling mechanism to resist an "immigrant woman" identity, imposed through racism and sexism in the period of adjustment in Canada."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Preface / Ramabai Espinet -- 1. Introduction: Tek de bull by de horn -- 2. Part 1: Caribbean-Canadian Women Self-Define: Me see meself as... -- Part 2: Who Are Caribbean Women in Canada?: Mout' open 'tory jump out -- 3. Interconnected Histories in the Caribbean: Caribbean Women as Rebels and Spitfires: Back in a time a hole lot o' we -- 4. Looking for that Identity: Ow arwe does know -- 5. Imagining Home: Home full o'cankala -- 6. Home is the Site of Learning Resistance: Yard tallawa -- 7. Strategies to Make Canada Home: We does get troo, bonjay! -- 8. An Alternative Women's Movement in Canada: One day, one day, congotay! -- 9. I Know Who I Am: A Caribbean Woman in Canada: Ay, ay, is know, ah know, we!
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Toronto, 1998).
Subject headings (LCSH): Black people--Canada--Race identity.; Black people--Race identity--Canada.; Bobb-Smith, Yvonne, 1931-; Race discrimination--Canada.; Women, Black--Canada.; Women, Black--Race identity--Canada.