Reviews (Full List):

Review of Threading Light: Explorations in Loss and Poetry.  By Lorri Neilsen Glenn.  University of Toronto Quarterly.  82:3 (2013): .

Review of Done with Slavery: The Black Fact in Montreal, 1760-1840.  By Frank Mackey.  University of Toronto Quarterly.  81.3 (Summer 2012): 685-687.

“Collecting His Wits.”  Review of Collected Works of George Grant, Volume 4, 1970-1988.  By George Grant.  Eds. Arthur Davis and Henry Roper.  Canadian Literature.  208 (Spring 2011): 153-155.

“Fred Ho Plays Malcolm X.”  Review of Wicked Theory, Naked Practice: A Fred Ho Reader.  Ed. Diane C. Fujino.  Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation.  5.1 (2009).  http://www.criticalimprov.com

Review of Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature.  Eds. Smaro Kamboureli and Roy Miki.  University of Toronto Quarterly.  78.1 (2009): 178-179.

Review of White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada.  By Daniel Coleman. University of Toronto Quarterly.  78.1 (2009): 179-181.

Review.  Alden Nowlan: Essays on His Works.  Ed. Gregory M. Cook.  University of Toronto Quarterly.  77.1 (Winter 2008): 445-446.

Review of Black Then: Blacks and Montreal, 1780s-1880s.  By Frank Mackey.  University of Toronto Quarterly.  76.1 (Winter 2007): 433-435.

“Granting Audience.”  Review of Collected Works of George Grant, Volume 3, 1960-1969.  By George Grant.  Eds. Arthur Davis and Henry Roper.  Canadian Literature.  191 (Winter 2006): 138-139.

Review of Over the Roofs of the World.  By Olive Senior.  The Malahat Review.  156 (Fall 2006): 95-97.

“The Bajan Connection.”  Review of Dry Bone Memories.  By Cecil Foster.  Canadian Literature.  182 (Autumn 2004): 127-8.

“In Living Colour.”  Review of African Diaspora and Autobiographics: Skeins of Self and Skin.  By Chinosole.  Review of Black and Asian Plays Anthology.  Ed. Cheryl Robson.  Canadian Literature.  180 (Spring 2004):  117-9.

“What Is the Answer?”  Review of The Question.  By Austin Clarke.  Canadian Literature.  179 (Winter 2003): 126-8.

“Re: (St.) George Grant.”  Review of Collected Works of George Grant, Volume 1.  By George Grant.  Eds. Arthur Davis and Peter C. Emberley.  Review of George Grant and the Theology of the Cross: The Christian Foundations of His Thought.  By Peter Athanadiasis.  Canadian Literature.  178 (Autumn 2003): 120-1.

“Inking BC in Black and Blue.”  Review of Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature.  Ed. Wayde Compton.  Essays on Canadian Writing.  79 (Spring 2003): 76-82.

Review of Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism.  Ed. Rinaldo Walcott.  Canadian Literature.  174 (Autumn 2002):  187-9.

Review of A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging.  By Dionne Brand.  University of Toronto Quarterly.  72.1 (Winter 2002/03): 557-8.

Review of The Log of the Vigilante.  By Herbert Woodward Martin.  African American Review.  36.2 (Summer 2002): 24-25.

Review of A Narrative of Thomas Smallwood (Coloured Man).  By Thomas Smallwood.  Ed. Richard Almonte.  University of Toronto Quarterly.  71.1 (Winter 2001/02):  271-2.

Review of Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism.  Ed. Rinaldo Walcott.  University of Toronto Quarterly.  71.1 (Winter 2001/02):  398-400.

“A Slave Nerrative  [sic].”  Review of Broken Shackles: Old Man Henson from Slavery to Freedom.  By Glenelg (pseud. of John Frost Jr.).  Edited by Peter Meyler.  Books in Canada.  30.4 (November/December 2001): 11-12.

“Vitriolic Quixote.”  Review of The George Grant Reader.  Eds. William Christian and Sheila Grant.  Review of English-Speaking Justice.  By George Grant.  Canadian Literature.  170/171 (Autumn/Winter 2001): 198-199.

Review of Multitudes: Poems Selected & New.  By Afaa Michael Weaver.  African American Review.  35.3 (Fall 2001): 497.

Review of A Black Canadian Bibliography.  By Flora (Blizzard) Francis.  Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada.  39.1 (Spring/Printemps 2001):  80-84.

"The Complex Face of Black Canada."  (Reprint of review first published in McGill News, 77.4 [Winter 1997]:  26-29.)  In Heritage.  February 2001, a supplement to The Precinct Reporter.  [San Bernardino CA] 36.32 (February 22, 2001): 2-3, 8.

Review of Tourists with Typewriters: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Travel Writing.  By Patrick Holland and Graham Huggan.  English Studies in Canada.  26.4 (December 2000):  520-524.

“Another Great Thing.”  Review of Any Known Blood.  By Lawrence Hill.  Canadian Literature.  165  (Summer 2000):  139-140.

Review of The Blacks in Canada: A History.  By Robin W. Winks.  American Review of Canadian Studies.  30.1 (Spring 2000):  91-95.

Review of Vendetta: The True Story of the Largest Lynching in US History.  By Richard Gambino.  University of Toronto Quarterly.  69.1 (Winter 1999/2000):  281-283.

"Viewing African Canada."  Review of The Blacks in Canada: A History.  By Robin W. Winks.  Canadian Literature.  160 (Spring 1999):  185-186.

"The Complex Face of Black Canada."  (Partial reprint of review first published in McGill News, 77.4 [Winter 1997]:  26-29.)  In Harbrace Handbook for Canadians.  Fifth Edition.  Toronto: Harcourt Brace & Company Canada, 1999.  360.  

“Syl Cheney-Coker’s Nova Scotia, or The Limits of Pan-Africanism.”  Review of the Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar.  By Syl Cheney-Coker.  The Dalhousie Review.  77.2 (Summer 1997) [1999]: 283-296.

Review of Black Like Who?: Writing Black Canada.  By Rinaldo Walcott.  University of Toronto Quarterly.  68.1 (Winter 1998-1999):  401-402.

Review of Land to Light On.  By Dionne Brand.  Journal of Canadian Poetry.  14 (1998).  For the Year 1997:  37-42.

“Canada—A Showcase of Various, Contestatory Negotiations of Difference.”  Review of Talking About Difference: Encounters in Culture, Language, and Identity.  Eds. Carl E. James and Adrienne Shadd.  In Re/Visioning: Canadian Perspectives on the Education of Africans in the Late 20th Century.  Ed. Vincent R. D’Oyley.  North York ON: Captus Press, 1998.  296-299.

"The Complex Face of Black Canada."  Review of Diversity, Mobility and Change: The Dynamics of Black Communities in Canada.  By James L. Torcyzner, et al.  McGill News.  77.4 (Winter 1997):  26-29.

Review of Chicken Cries Out.  By Judge Mazebedi.  Hook & Ladder.  2.2 (Summer 1996): 32-33.

Review of 'We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up': Essays in African Canadian Women's History.  Co-ord. Peggy Bristow.  American Review of Canadian Studies.  25.1 (Spring 1995):  153-157.

Review of Many-Mouthed Birds: Contemporary Writing by Chinese Canadians.  Eds. Bennett Lee and Jim Wong-Chu.  West Coast Line.  11 (Fall 1993):  139-141.

Review of Many Rivers to Cross: The African-Canadian Experience.  Exhibition mounted by The Multicultural History Society of Ontario.  Archivaria.  36 (Autumn 1993): 265-267.

Review of Marginal Forces/Cultural Centres: Tolson, Pynchon, and the Politics of the Canon. By Michael Bérubé.  American Literature (June 1993): 383-384.

"The Death and Rebirth of Africadian Nationalism."  Review of Remember Africville.  Dir. Shelagh Mackenzie.  New Maritimes.  11. 5 (May/June, 1993): 20-28.

Review of Black Looks: Race and Representation.  By bell hooks.  left history.  1. 1 (Spring 1993): 136.

Review of Black Islanders: Prince Edward Island's Historical Black Community.  By Jim Hornby.  The Canadian Historical Review.  (December 1992): 558-559.

Review of Capital Poets: An Ottawa Anthology, ed. by Colin Morton, and XXX: Poems by Frank Manley, Claude Paradox, James Whittal.  Journal of Canadian Poetry.  6 (1991): 147-157.

"An Unprejudiced View of Two Africanadian Poets."  Review of Woman Talking Woman, by Maxine Tynes, and Native Song, by David Woods.  Arc.  27 (Autumn 1991): 73-81.

"Language, Place and Poetry."  Review of Unfinished Dreams: Contemporary Poetry of Acadie.  Eds. and trans. Fred Cogswell and Jo-Anne Elder.  New Maritimes. 9.6 (July/August, 1991): 20-26.

Review of Pourin' Down Rain.  By Cheryl Foggo.  Canadian Ethnic Studies. 23.3 (1991): 183-184.

Review of I Shout Love and Other Poems.  By Milton Acorn.  Journal of Canadian Poetry. 4 (1989): 4-7.