Basodee
Subtitle: an anthology dedicated to Black youth
By: edited by Fiona Raye Clarke
Publisher: General Store Publishing House
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Renfrew, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
ISBN-13: 9781771230117
Subjects: Black people; History; Feminism; Black Students; Social conditions; Black Women; Black Youth; Race identity; Race relations; Canadian literature; Canadian literature (English); Black Canadian authors; Littérature canadienne-anglaise; Auteurs noirs; Féminisme; Noires; Jeunesse noire; Conditions sociales; Identité ethnique
Description: Basodee is a passionate and eye-opening collection of youth poems, essays, and stories exploring what it means to be young, Black and Canadian. This anthology seeks to portray contemporary Canadian-Black relations and is one of the few published collections of Black youth stories in Canada. Topics covered in poems, essays and stories include the Canadian system of (mis)educating Blacks, integrated vs. non-integrated schools, Black identity, and fitting in with a different culture. There are remembrances of 'back home'--about places like Haiti, Somalia, Kenya, Burundi, and Trinidad; experiences of culture shock and solutions for remembering where one came from; stories of family and finding one's own voice; facts and fictions about Black Canadian history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.