Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature, Vol. 1
In 1858, 600 blacks moved from San Francisco north to the colonies that would eventually become British Columbia (B.C.), Canada. The move was in part initiated by an invitation penned by the governor of the British colonies, James Douglas, who is commonly believed to have had African ancestry, a rumor he neither confirmed nor denied. His appearance was such that he could "pass" for white. By 1871, after swelling to more than 1,000, the black population in B.C. had dwindled to fewer than 500....
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An anthology of black literature and orature from the Pacific Northwest.
Foreword13Introduction17from Journal of James Douglas, 1843. Including Voyage to Sitka and Voyage to the North-West Coast41A Voice from the Oppressed to the Friends of Humanity49Lines Written After the Great Fire at Barkerville, 16th September, 186851The Old Red Shirt51from Shadow and Light: An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century53letters to The Cariboo Sentinel65from The Life of Wm. H. H. Johnson, from 1839-1900, and the New Race70from Notes made by Marie Albertina Stark (afterwards Mrs. Wallace) from the recollections of her mother, Sylvia Stark, who was born a slave in Clay County, Missouri, and settled on Salt Spring Island with her husband, Louis Stark, and family in the year 1860, as homesteaders78from Opening Doors: Vancouver's East End95from Opening Doors: Vancouver's East End101from Opening Doors: Vancouver's East End105from Opening Doors: Vancouver's East End111from Opening Doors: Vancouver's East End115from Being Brown: A Very Public Life121Koopab ...128The Return128Mourne Fortune, Castries, St. Lucia128Powell Street Conspiracy136One Road to the Sea136from "Blue Notes of a White Girl"136Waiting147Immigrant147Hope Hotel147The Literature of Africa and Its Diaspora: Black History Month, 1997153from A Credit To Your Race160Out of order / talk's about them folks jimi - a tale of black male of black mail168Christopher's blues168Talk'n about ho bo'n it jimmy1681980171Landed171Repatriation171Tongues in memory of Bob Marley171Into Consciousness171from Into and Out of Dislocation183from Je me souviens: Memories of an Expatriate Anglophone Montrealaise, Quebecoise Exiled in Canada194Returning to the place where there were so few of us when I grew up197This Is Not the Miscegenation Blues of a Tragic Mulatto197Mending Clothes as I Think of Sojourner Truth197Like Koya200Trunk Music203Bus Fucking213Sadie mae's mane213Talk Show215Biopsy215Oh Joshua Fit de Battle215Icarus220Home Alone and Cooking220When I Grow Up I Want To Be an Old Woman220Land for Salt225(for Sidane Arone)225Hair: It Can Be a Big Thing225from diss/ed banded nation232from Threads235Black Mary245Bus Ride East245from Shadowtown: Black Fist Rising249Lena & Hue253Offering256from "The Lost Conquistador"256Eshu Got Venus261Back265Dewdrop265Natural Histories of Southwestern British Columbia269JD272Legba, Landed272Bangkok Business277Three277Floored277Red Sea Crossing280Tizita280Sex speaks282AlterNation282Fau(x)ve282from Aunt Ermine's Recipe for Brown Sugar Fudge282Dreaded Fist291On Being a Black Woman in Canada (and Indian and English too) To the Tune of Pensees (VII Contradictions) by Blaise Pascal, Which Has Here Been Adapted to Show the Proper Terms by Which One Should Understand and Communicate One's Race, According to the Language and Syntactical Structure (and, By Way of Extension, the Philosophies and Logic) of One of the Greatest Modern Thinkers Ever to Have Lived294A Bibliography of Black British Columbian Literature and Orature297Publication Credits303Notes on Contributors307
