{"id":14272,"date":"2011-06-18T22:14:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T22:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=14272"},"modified":"2011-06-18T22:14:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T22:14:18","slug":"black-berry-sweet-juice-on-being-black-and-white-in-canada-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=14272","title":{"rendered":"Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada [Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quillandquire.com\/reviews\/review.cfm?review_id=2447\" target=\"_blank\">Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada [Review]<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quillandquire.com\" target=\"_blank\">Quill and Quire &#8211; Canada&#8217;s Magazine of Book News and Reviews<\/a><br \/>\nOctober 2001<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trentu.ca\/english\/faculty_hodges.php\" target=\"_blank\">Hugh Hodges<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Hill, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3899\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada<\/em><\/a>, Harper Collins Canada, September 2001, 256 pages, Paperback ISBN: 9780006385080; ISBN10: 0006385087.<\/p>\n<p>With <em>Black Berry, Sweet Juice<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrencehill.com\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence Hill<\/a> opens an overdue discussion of what racial identity means to Canadians of mixed race. It\u2019s a worthwhile project, but Hill undermines his intentions by trying to address academics and casual readers at the same time. The book falls somewhere between memoir and sociological study, but achieves neither the warmth of the former nor the rigour of the latter.<\/p>\n<p>Hill\u2019s reflections on race are often inconsistent. He pays lip service to the idea that cultures and communities are open-ended, but tends to speak of them as if they were homogenous and closed. <strong>He also seems to change his mind several times about whether racial identity is chosen by an individual or something they are born with. He argues that in contemporary Canada people are free to self-identify, but suggests that the person of mixed heritage who chooses not to identify himself as black will find that \u201chis own race [will] take a bite out of his backside.\u201d<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quillandquire.com\/reviews\/review.cfm?review_id=2447\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada [Review] Quill and Quire &#8211; Canada&#8217;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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,19,125,8],"tags":[6565,1568,6566],"class_list":["post-14272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-canada","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","tag-hugh-hodges","tag-lawrence-hill","tag-quill-and-quire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}