We asked our librarians to share their research and reading recommendations for Black History Month and they responded with a wealth of information.
Kate Cushon, our librarian for business administration, English, and theatre, recommended the following databases/websites:
- Black Drama – scripts of plays by Black playwrights.
- Black Thought and Culture – “I use this less for purely literary studies, and more for when students/researchers are pursuing projects that are looking at primary resources. It has a really nice user-friendly Browse feature that would make it a wonderful resource for people to explore the content outside of a research perspective.”
- Canadian Black Chamber of Commerce – of special interest is the report on building Black businesses in Canada.
- Afrobiz and Black Business Direct – directories of Black-owned Canadian entrepreneurial businesses.
Cara Bradley, our research and scholarship librarian, recommends the following books from our collection:
- Researching Black Communities: A Methodological Guide
- Black pioneers in communication research
- Oral narrative research with Black women
- Black Participatory Research Power, Identity, and the Struggle for Justice in Education
- Black feminism in qualitative inquiry : a mosaic for writing our daughter’s body
Finally, Robert Thomas, librarian for the social sciences and humanities, recommends the memoir “Go to school, you’re a little black boy”: the honourable Lincoln M. Alexander.
