The Book of Negroes

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... is the title of an award winning book written by Canadian writer Lawrence Hill, who has been featured recently on the CBC's Ideas program with a presentation from the Massey Lecture series.

I'd strongly recommend listening to the Ideas series :thumb:

Has anybody read The Book of Negroes? It was published in the US as Someone Knows My Name.

I intend to pick it up as soon as I clear the stack I'm working on now


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Negroes_(novel)
 
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The Canadian author talks about how he had to change the title of the book for release in America. Stupid Americans! :bang:
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Negroes are extremely sensitive to the word negro. It sounds too much like the n-word. They prefer to be called Colored People of African Descent. Our president is the son of a White woman and of a Colored People of African Descent man.
 
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The author has written about the title:

"I used The Book of Negroes as the title for my novel, in Canada, because it derives from a historical document of the same name kept by British naval officers at the tail end of the American Revolutionary War. It documents the 3,000 blacks who had served the King in the war and were fleeing Manhattan for Canada in 1783. Unless you were in The Book of Negroes, you couldn't escape to Canada. My character, an African woman named Aminata Diallo whose story is based on this history, has to get into the book before she gets out. In my country, few people have complained to me about the title, and nobody continues to do so after I explain its historical origins. I think it's partly because the word 'Negro' resonates differently in Canada. If you use it in Toronto or Montreal, you are probably just indicating publicly that you are out of touch with how people speak these days. But if you use it in Brooklyn or Boston, you are asking to have your nose broken. When I began touring with the novel in some of the major US cities, literary African-Americans kept approaching me and telling me it was a good thing indeed that the title had changed, because they would never have touched the book with its Canadian title."[1]
 
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Massey Lectures


The Massey Lectures are an annual five-part series of lectures on a political, cultural or philosophical topic given in Canada by a noted scholar. They were created in 1961 to honour Vincent Massey, Governor General of Canada. The purpose is to "enable distinguished authorities to communicate the results of original study on important subjects of contemporary interest."[1] Some of the most famous Massey Lecturers have included Northrop Frye, John Kenneth Galbraith, Noam Chomsky, Margaret Atwood, Ursula Franklin, and Nobel laureates Martin Luther King, Jr., George Wald, Willy Brandt and Doris Lessing.

In October 2013, for Lawrence Hill's Massey Lectures, CBC Radio launched a visual narrative on the topic of Blood: The Stuff of Life. This story is presented with huge, full-screen images of blood, animations which visually demonstrate historical attitudes and videos of people impacted culturally by blood. The website elements are triggered by scrolling so that as you read down the page the multiple backgrounds seem to move at different speeds creating a sensation of depth. This is known as a parallax website.


Sponsorship

The event is co-sponsored by CBC Radio, House of Anansi Press and Massey College in the University of Toronto. The lectures have been broadcast by the CBC show Ideas since 1965. Before 2002, the lectures were recorded for broadcast in a CBC Radio studio in Toronto. In 1989. and after, a single public lecture was also given at the University of Toronto. Since 2002, the lectures were taken out of the studio with each of the five lectures being delivered and recorded for broadcast before an audience in a different Canadian city.

The lectures are broadcast each November on the CBC Radio One show Ideas and published in book form by House of Anansi Press. Two consolidations of five older lectures have been published. Many of the lectures are also available in CD audio that can be purchased through the CBC. In 2011 most of the lectures were available on the Ideas website. Since 1997 the lectures have included some form of interaction through web forums.
 
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The N word. It's the best word anyone could possibly use in self deprecating humor. Come on!

Unfortunately because there are still racist non blacks alive and well amongst us nobody else gets to use that word the way the brothers can.

I have no idea why Sam L Jackson made django but it sure was hilarious. The white people in that movie were so bad! And then Sam L J was the worst of the lot.

I guess I can stick to calling my buddies fags and homos and leave the N word out. But that's how I see the word.


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... is the title of an award winning book written by Canadian writer Lawrence Hill, who has been featured recently on the CBC's Ideas program with a presentation from the Massey Lecture series.

I'd strongly recommend listening to the Ideas series :thumb:

Has anybody read The Book of Negroes? It was published in the US as Someone Knows My Name.

I intend to pick it up as soon as I clear the stack I'm working on now


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Negroes_(novel)
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Sounds good, I'd like to read it. I'm just finishing a book by Fredrick Douglas....My Bondage and My Freedom. What a great man he was. It relates his years in slavery and his escape. I've always been interested in the Civil War, and went to a lot of the battlefields when I lived in Virginia. I'd read other slave accounts, but I never saw the people of the US the way Douglas portrayed them. The "religious" used the Bible to support their right to hold slaves, and even in the North, the people kept blacks in their own little corner. What a stain on the churches that time was. He had to go to England to be treated like a man instead of a black man. A lot of his lectures are cited....really good stuff.
 
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Negroes are extremely sensitive to the word negro. It sounds too much like the n-word. They prefer to be called Colored People of African Descent. Our president is the son of a White woman and of a Colored People of African Descent man.
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I'm extremely sensitive to extremely sensitive people :banana:

Also, from now on could you people, instead of calling me One Ugly Christian, please refer to me as "One Aesthetically Challenged Christian."
 
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