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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Williams, Ian, 1979-     Subjects     Blacks -- Canada -- Social conditions.     Blacks -- Social conditions.     Blacks -- Canada -- Race identity.     Blacks -- Race identity.     Race awareness.     Race discrimination.     Racism -- Canada.     Racism.     Race relations.     Canada -- Race relations.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Williams, Ian, 1979-       by title:      Disorientation : bei...       by call number:      305.896 W723d     Search the Web     Williams, Ian, 1979-     Blacks -- Canada -- Social conditions.     Blacks -- Social conditions.     Blacks -- Canada -- Race identity.     Blacks -- Race identity.     Race awareness.     Race discrimination.     Racism -- Canada.     Racism.     Race relations.     Canada -- Race relations.       MARC Display

Disorientation : being Black in the world / Ian Williams. by Williams, Ian, 1979- Random House Canada, 2021. Call #: 305.896 W723d Subjects Blacks -- Canada -- Social conditions.   Blacks -- Social conditions.   Blacks -- Canada -- Race identity.   Blacks -- Race identity.   Race awareness.   Race discrimination.   Racism -- Canada.   Racism.   Race relations.   Canada -- Race relations. ISBN:  9781039000223 (hc) Description:  207 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Summary:  "Bestselling, Scotiabank Giller Award-winning writer Ian Williams brings fresh eyes and new insights to today's urgent conversation on race and racism in startling, illuminating essays that grow out of his own experience as a Black man moving through the world. With that one eloquent word, disorientation, Ian Williams captures the impact of racial encounters on racialized people -- the whiplash of race that occurs while minding one's own business. Sometimes the consequences are only irritating, but sometimes they are deadly. Spurred by the police killings and street protests of 2020, Williams realized he could offer a perspective distinct from the almost exclusively America-centric books on race topping the bestseller lists, because of one salient fact: he has lived in Trinidad (where he was never the only Black person in the room), in Canada (where he often was), and in the United States (where as a Black man from the Caribbean, he was a different kind of only). Inspired by the essays of James Baldwin, in which the personal becomes the gateway to larger ideas, Williams explores such things as the unmistakable moment when a child realizes they are Black; the ten characteristics of institutional whiteness; how friendship forms a bulwark against being a target of racism; the meaning and uses of a Black person's smile; and blame culture -- or how do we make meaningful change when no one feels responsible for the systemic structures of the past. With these essays, Williams wants to reach a multi-racial audience of people who believe that civil conversation on even the most charged subjects is possible. Examining the past and the present in order to speak to the future, he offers new thinking, honest feeling, and his astonishing, piercing gift of language."--Publisher. Genre:  Essays. Holds:  2   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Bedford Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 305.896 W723d Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Black Nonfiction 305.896 W723d Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList J. D. Shatford Memorial Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 305.896 W723d Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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