Table of Contents -- Preface -- By Way of Introduction -- Profiles -- After the Giller -- Roots Canadian Style -- Two Solitudes -- Figure in a Landscape -- An Optimistic Planet -- In the Garden -- Black Man's Burden -- The Homecoming -- I Remember Papa -- The Music Man -- The Life of Portia White -- Lady Sings the Blues -- Poetic Justice -- Phantom Hearts -- Digging Up a Hidden Past -- The Importance of Being Different -- Just Your Average Black Canadian Guy (Whatever That Is) -- The We of Blackness -- A Quality of Light -- Consecrated Ground -- Race, Film and History -- Interviews -- Toni Morrison: War and Peace -- Cecil Foster: A Long Sojourn -- Lawrence Hill: In Black and White -- David Odhiambo: African Perspectives -- Austin Clarke: The Polished Hoe -- Nalo Hopkinson: Fantasy Island Girl -- Andre Alexis, Nalo Hopkinson and Djanet Sears: Black Writers on Being Edited, Published and Reviewed in Canada -- Reviews -- The Worlds Within Her -- Doing the Heart Good -- In Another Place Not Here -- At The Full and Change of the Moon -- Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African Canadian Literature -- The Bondwoman's Narrative -- Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats -- Bud, Not Buddy -- Slammin' Tar -- Any Known Blood -- Brown Girl in the Ring -- Rush Home Road -- The Book of lfs and Buts -- Putting Down Roots: Montreal's Immigrant Writers -- Kipligat's Chance -- Frontiers: Essays and Writings on Racism and Culture -- No Crystal Stair -- In Silence the Strands Unravel -- Deemed Unsuitable -- The Heart Does Not Bend -- Behind the Face of Winter -- The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart -- Coda -- Pig Tails 'n Breadfruit.