by Lawrence Hill · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006385080
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«Black Berry, Sweet Juice» is Lawrence Hill's autobiographical essay on racial identity in Canada, published by Harper Perennial in paperback (264 pages, in English).
Lawrence Hill, son of a Black father and a white mother, explores his own experience and that of other Canadians of mixed heritage to examine what it means to be Black in Canada. Between personal memory and family history, the book addresses everyday racism, hostility toward interracial couples, and the difficulty of defining oneself in a country that tends to see neither Black nor white.
In its subtitle, the book presents itself as a reflection on being Black and white in Canada, also drawing on interviews with other people of mixed heritage. Originally published in 2002 in English.
For readers interested in memoirs, racial identity, activism, and Canadian society.
Lawrence Hill is a Canadian novelist, essayist, and memoirist. He is known for his 2007 novel The Book of Negroes, inspired by the Black Loyalists given freedom and resettled in Nova Scotia by the British after the American Revolutionary War, and his 2001 memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada. The Book of Negroes was adapted for a TV mini-series produced in 2015. He was selected in 2013 for the Massey Lectures: he drew from his non-fiction book Blood: The Stuff of Life, published that year. His ten books include other non-fiction and fictional works, and some have been translated into other languages and published in numerous other countries.
