FEBRUARY 2003 - CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY MONTH at VANIER COLLEGE! THROUGHOUT THE MONTH... BLACK HISTORY MONTH QUIZ - Test your knowledge of Black history. Top three (3) winners will receive cash prizes. The quiz will be available in C-203 beginning February 3rd and ending February 26th at noon. _

DISPLAY CASES (F-Wing Carrefour) - Check out the Black History Month displays (February 10 - 21). Members of the Vanier community are greatly encouraged to participate by bringing in any relevant materials to Dany Brown, Student Services, room C-203.

Photo: Ludovic Fremaux (Click on photo for his biography) "Dany Laferrière" video available in Vanier College Library

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER DANY LAFERRIÈRE On Wednesday, February 26 during Universal Break (12:00 to 1:30) guest speaker Dany Laferrière will make make a bilingual presentation in the Amphitheatre room B-223. Dany Laferrière is a well-known author and radio personality. From a review of his first novel, Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer (How to Make Love to a Negro): Writing in a desperate, comfortable tone, with a working-class intellectualism on a par with Charles Bukowski's or Henry Miller's, the narrator wanders the streets and slums of Montreal, has sex with white women, and writes a book to save his life.... The narrator is an exile in a culture of exiles in Montreal, looking from the outside in, not realizing that everyone in the city exists in a form of exile, and talking about the situation of -- and the fascination with -- the modern North American black man with intelligent candour.... Laferrière's fiction is like an extended essay on race relations, with conversations about psychology and jazz, why white girls like ethnic boys, what it is to be in exile, and the plight of the black man in North America, while all the time extending hands to his heroes Miller and James Baldwin. Laferrière has a fantastic, wry humour, and writes with pure joy and an astute awareness of the world around him. (--Rob McLennan )

BEAT THROUGH TIME Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - during Universal Break (12:00 to 1:30) in the Student Mall. We invite you to take a trip through time with us as we travel through a history of African rhythms. Through the use of drums and dance we will guide you as you groove to the sounds from the "Motherland" to the "New World" and back. Come one, come all and experience African music as an ever-evolving art form.

Suggested links for Black History (click on the image):

Recommended reading in the Vanier College Library:

Alienation and resistance : the political behaviour of Afro-Canadians McClain, Paula Denice 1979 A place called heaven : the meaning of being Black in Canada 1996 Black Canadians : a long line of fighters Tulloch, Headley 1975 Black community resource guide : a listing of services available to Montreal's English-speaking Black population Black Community Resource Centre 1998 The Blacks in Canada : a history Winks, Robin W. 1997 Blacks in Canada : in search of the promise : a bibliographic guide to the history of blacks in Canada Govia, Francine 1988 Blacks in Montreal, 1628-1986 : an urban demography Williams, Dorothy W. 1989 Canada and its people of African descent Bertley, Leo W. 1977 Canada in us now : the first anthology of Black poetry and prose in Canada Head, Harold 1976 Diversity, mobility and change : the dynamics of Black communities in Canada Torczyner, James L. 1997 Fire on the water : an anthology of black Nova Scotian writing Clarke, George Elliott 1991 A history of Blacks in Canada : a study guide for teachers and students Walker, James W. St. G. 1980 Let the Niggers burn: The Sir George Williams University affair and its Caribbean aftermath Forsythe, Dennis. ed. 1971 Long time comin' (Women at the well) [videorecording] National Film Board of Canada 1993 Older, stronger, wiser (Women at the well) [videorecording] National Film Board of Canada 1989? Other voices : writings by Blacks in Canada Elliott, Lorris 1985 Outsider blues : a voice from the shadows Ruggles, Clifton 1996 The refugee, or, The narratives of fugitive slaves in Canada : related by themselves with an account of the history and condition of the colored population of Upper Canada Drew, Benjamin [1812-1903] 1972 The road to now : a history of Blacks in Montreal Williams, Dorothy W. 1997 Sitting in Limbo [videorecording] National Film Board of Canada 1986 Some missing pages : the black community in the history of Québec and Canada Provincial Association of Social Studies Teachers (Quebec) 1995 The West Indians in Canada Walker, James W. St. G. 1984 BACK TO VANIER HOME PAGE