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Below is a selection of books available online from the University of Winnipeg Library that highlight the Black Lives Matter movement.  There is an emphasis on Canadian content.  Links will be updated as books on order are made available.  Please let me know if you'd like to add anything to the list!

Alexis André. Fifteen Dogs: an Apologue. Serpent's Tail, 2015. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/897352759

Allen, Lillian. Women Do This Every Day: Selected Poems of Lillian Allen. Women's Press, 2003. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/29309018

Ali, Mohamed Abdulkarim. Angry Queer Somali Boy: a Complicated Memoir. CELA, 2020. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1126573923

Birnbaum, Michele. Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2003. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/776974198

Bitek, Juliane Okot. 100 Days. The University of Alberta Press, 2016. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/928679724

Blades, Nicole. Have You Met Nora? Kensington Publishing, 2017. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1008874911

Brand, Dionne, and Leslie Catherine Sanders. Fierce Departures: the Poetry of Dionne Brand. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/289058381

Carrington André M. Speculative Blackness: the Future of Race in Science Fiction. University of Minnesota Press, 2016. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/944346713

Clarke, George Elliott, and Jon Paul. Fiorentino. Blues and Bliss: the Poetry of George Elliott Clarke. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/352540830

Cobb, Keith Hamilton. American Moor. Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1150196625

Diop, Boubacar Boris, and Fiona Mc Laughlin. Murambi, the Book of Bones. Indiana University Press, 2016. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/191944127

Faust, Minister. Alchemists of Kush. Underland Press, 2019. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1000392959

French, Whitney. Black Writers Matters. University of Regina Press, 2020. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1080211515

Makumbi, Jennifer Nansubuga. Kintu. Oneworld Publications, 2018. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1015879797

Moon, Spencer. Reel Black Talk: a Sourcebook of 50 American Filmmakers. Greenwood P., 1997. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/55807339

Mutonji Téa. Shut up You're Pretty: Stories. CELA, 2019. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1122920417

Philip, Marlene Nourbese, and Setaey Adamu. Boateng. Zong! Wesleyan University Press, 2011. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/771875920

Philip, Marlene Nourbese. Blank: Essays & Interviews. BookThug, 2018. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/985966272

Robinson, Cedric J., et al. An Anthropology of Marxism. Pluto Press, 2019. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1083460139

Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma. Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity. University of California Press, 2005. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/58728613

Thomas, Ebony Elizabeth. The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games. New York University Press, 2019. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1158314464

Thompson, Ayanna. Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America. Oxford University Press, 2013. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/967257778

Vernon, Karina, et al. The Black Prairie Archives: an Anthology. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2020. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1154560312

Walcott, Rinaldo. Black like Who?: Writing Black Canada. Insomniac Press, 2018. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/605320876

Walcott, Rinaldo, editor. Rude : Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism. Insomniac Press, 2014. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/875241716

Walker, David, et al. Reflections on Blaxploitation: Actors and Directors Speak. Scarecrow Press, 2009. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/315477926

Wanzo, Rebecca Ann. The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging. New York University Press, 2020. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1147294495

Whitted, Qiana. EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest. Rutgers University Press, 2019. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1100433105

Williams, Roland Leander. Black Male Frames: African Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003. Syracuse University Press, 2018. https://uwinnipeg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/899211507