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Title: |
A Credit to Your Race |
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| By (author): |
Truman Green |
| ISBN10-13: |
1897535864 : 9781897535868 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Weight: |
.198 Kg. |
| Published: |
Anvil Press - October 2011 |
| List Price: |
13.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 3 |
| Subjects: |
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| A longtime resident of Surrey, Truman Green wrote 'A Credit to Your Race' (1973), in which a fifteen-year-old black porter's son falls in love with, and impregnates, the white girl next door. Set in Surrey, circa 1960, 'A Credit to Your Race' is a disturbing and convincing portrayal of how the full weight of Canadian racism could come to bear on a youthful, interracial couple. "If Isolation is a key theme of black B.C. writing," says social historian Wayde Compton, "Green's protagonist Billy Robinson is the most fully-drawn expression." Compton says Green was diplomatic in the way he described racism, but his novel was passed over nonetheless. After rejection from several literary presses in Canada, Truman self-published his novel in a limited edition of three hundred copies. "If isolation is a key theme of black B.C. writing, Green's protagonist Billy Robinson is the most fully-drawn expression." author and social historian Wayde Compton |
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