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Morris, Matthew R.
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Morris, Matthew R.
Blacks -- Canada -- Race identity.
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Black Canadians -- Biography.
Race awareness -- Canada.
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Blacks -- Biography.
Canadian essays -- 21st century.
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Morris, Matthew R.
Morris, Matthew R.
Blacks -- Canada -- Race identity.
Blacks -- Race identity.
Black Canadians -- Biography.
Race awareness -- Canada.
Race awareness.
Blacks -- Biography.
Canadian essays -- 21st century.
Canadian essays -- Black authors.
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Black
boys
like
me
:
confrontations
with
race
,
identity
, and
belonging
/ Mattew R. Morris.
by
Morris, Matthew R.
Viking, 2024.
Call #:
305.896 M877b
Subjects
Morris, Matthew R.
Blacks -- Canada --
Race
identity
.
Blacks --
Race
identity
.
Black
Canadians -- Biography.
Race
awareness -- Canada.
Race
awareness.
Blacks -- Biography.
Canadian essays -- 21st century.
Canadian essays --
Black
authors.
ISBN:
9780735244580 (hc)
Description:
214 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"Startlingly honest, bracing personal essays from a perceptive educator that bring us into the world of
Black
masculinity, hip-hop culture, and learning. This is an examination of the parts that construct my
Black
character; from how public schooling shapes our ideas about ourselves to how hip-hop and sports are simultaneously the conduit for both
Black
abundance and
Black
boundaries. This book is a meditation on the influences that have shaped
Black
boys
like
me
. What does it mean to be a young
Black
man with an immigrant father and a white mother, teaching in a school system that historically has held an exclusionary definition of success? In eight illuminating essays, Matthew R. Morris grapples with this question, and others related to
identity
and perception. After graduating high school in Scarborough, Morris spent four years in the U.S. on multiple football scholarships and, having spent that time in the States experiencing “the Mecca of hip hop and
Black
culture,” returned home with a newfound perspective. Now an elementary school teacher himself in Toronto, Morris explores the tension between his consumption of
Black
culture as a child, his teenage performances of the ideas and values of the culture that often betrayed his
identity
, and the ways society and the people guiding him -- his parents, coaches, and teachers -- received those performances. What emerges is a painful journey toward transcending performance altogether, toward true knowledge of the self. With the wide-reaching scope of Desmond Cole’s The Skin We’re In and the introspective snapshot of life in Between the World and
Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates,
Black
Boys
Like
Me
is an unflinching debut that invites readers to create braver spaces and engage in crucial conversations around
race
and
belonging
."--Publisher.
Genre:
Essays.
Memoirs.
Holds:
1
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Adult Black Nonfiction
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