Tag: Lawrence Hill

  • Author Hill speaks on race, place, and identity at ‘City of Words’ series University of Toronto, Scharborough 2012-02-06 Kurt Kleiner Writer Lawrence Hill has always felt attachment to people, not places. Nevertheless, the place he grew up – Don Mills in the early 1960s – shaped him as a person and as a writer.  …

  • The New Black The National Post Toronto, Canada The Afterword: Postings from the literary world 2012-02-03 Donna Bailey Nurse The day after the Giller Awards I had breakfast with a friend at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto. The ceremony had been held there the night before and as I savoured my bagel and lox…

  • Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada [Review] Quill and Quire – Canada’s Magazine of Book News and Reviews October 2001 Hugh Hodges, Associate Professor of English Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario Lawrence Hill, Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada, Harper Collins Canada, September 2001, 256 pages,…

  • “The devil made the mulatto”: Race, religion and respectability in a Black Atlantic, 1931-2005 University of Toronto 2007 312 pages Publication Number: AAT NR39517 ISBN: 9780494395172 Daniel R. McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Newcastle University, United Kingdom According to The Historical Journal there has only been one scholarly study of mixed- race history.…

  • Now Hill, himself a child of a black father and white mother, brings us “Black Berry, Sweet Juice, Hill: On Being Black and White in Canada,” a provocative and unprecedented look at a timely and engrossing topic.

  • Any Known Blood Harper Collins Canada 2001-09-20 528 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780006391760; ISBN10: 0006391761 Lawrence Hill Langston Cane V is 38, divorced and working as a government speechwriter, until he’s fired for sabotaging the minister’s speech. It seems the perfect time for Langston, the eldest son of a white mother and prominent black father, to…