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- High schools--Ontario--Toronto--Juvenile fiction
- Etobicoke (Toronto, Ont.)--Juvenile fiction
- Police brutality--Ontario--Toronto--Juvenile fiction
- Toronto (Ont.)--Juvenile fiction
- Prejudices--Juvenile fiction
- School violence--Juvenile fiction
- Schools--Ontario--Toronto--Juvenile fiction
- Teenagers, Black--Ontario--Toronto--Juvenile fiction
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Title Statement | Shades of black / Carlos Anthony. |
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Author | Anthony, Carlos |
Publication | Toronto, ON: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers,[2023]©2023 |
Extent of Item | 143 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781459417199 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr07046568 |
Audience & Ratings | RL 7.0. 013-018. |
Summary | "How big a price should a Black teen have to pay to feel safe in a dangerous new environment? Shades of Black is an honest and authentic portrayal of life as a young Black male teen in today's culture and environment at an urban school in Toronto's Etobicoke neighbourhood. Romero, a Guyanese Canadian, is a sensitive kid who is just starting to attend an inner-city-style school with a large racialized population. Romero falls in with a friendly crew but finds himself in trouble when a shot is fired in the school cafeteria--and he gets stuck with the gun. Meanwhile, the police, often using brutal tactics and targeting young Black males, try to find out who the shooter was. To humanize and critique the Black male experience and dispel the myth that vulnerability and empathy equal weakness, Carlos Anthony draws on his own recent experiences as a teen in school in Etobicoke. His novel is an authentic – and rare -- representation of Black youth culture and the experiences of Black teens in Canada's public schools."-- |
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By Topic | High schools--Juvenile fiction--Ontario--Toronto |
Police brutality--Juvenile fiction--Ontario--Toronto | |
Prejudices--Juvenile fiction | |
School violence--Juvenile fiction | |
Schools--Juvenile fiction--Ontario--Toronto | |
Teenagers, Black--Juvenile fiction--Ontario--Toronto | |
By Location | Etobicoke (Toronto, Ont.)--Juvenile fiction |
Toronto (Ont.)--Juvenile fiction | |
By Genre | Young adult fiction |
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