{"id":3899,"date":"2009-12-15T20:07:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T20:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3899"},"modified":"2017-06-12T00:13:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T00:13:03","slug":"black-berry-sweet-juice-on-being-black-and-white-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3899","title":{"rendered":"Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Harper Collins Canada<\/a>
\nSeptember 2001
\n256 pages
\nPaperback ISBN: 9780006385080; ISBN10: 0006385087<\/p>\n

Lawrence Hill<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Lawrence Hill\u2019s remarkable novel, Any Known Blood<\/em>, a multi-generational story about a Canadian man of mixed race, was met with critical acclaim and it marked the emergence of a powerful new voice in Canadian writing. Now Hill, himself a child of a black father and white mother, brings us Black<\/em> Berry, Sweet Juice, Hill: On Being Black and White in Canada<\/em>, a provocative and unprecedented look at a timely and engrossing topic.<\/p>\n

In Black Berry, Sweet Juice<\/em>, Hill movingly reveals his struggle to understand his own personal and racial identity. Raised by human rights activist parents in a predominantly white Ontario suburb, he is imbued with lingering memories and offers a unique perspective. In a satirical yet serious tone, Hill describes the ambiguity involved in searching for his identity \u2013 an especially complex and difficult journey in a country that prefers to see him as neither black nor white.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Interspersed with slices of his personal experiences, fascinating family history and the experiences of thirty-six other Canadians of mixed race interviewed for this book,\u00a0Black Berry, Sweet Juice<\/em> also examines contemporary racial issues in Canadian society. Hill explores the terms used to describe children of mixed race, the unrelenting hostility towards mix-race couples and the real meaning of the black Canadian experience. It arrives at a critical time when, in the highly publicized and controversial case of Elijah Van de Perre, the son of a white mother and black father [Theodore “Blue” Edwards<\/a>] in British Columbia, the Supreme Court of Canada has just granted custody to Elijah\u2019s mother, Kimberly Van de Perre.<\/p>\n

A reflective, sensitive and often humourous book, Black Berry, Sweet Juice<\/em> is a thought provoking discourse on the current status of race relations in Canada and it\u2019s a fascinating and important read for us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,125,8,17,26,394],"tags":[13717,1568],"class_list":["post-3899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-canada","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-politics","category-socialscience","tag-harper-collins-canada","tag-lawrence-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899","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=3899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54144,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions\/54144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}