Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature, Vol. 1 Book

	Foreword	13
	Introduction	17
	from Journal of James Douglas, 1843. Including Voyage to Sitka and Voyage to the North-West Coast	41
	A Voice from the Oppressed to the Friends of Humanity	49
	Lines Written After the Great Fire at Barkerville, 16th September, 1868	51
	The Old Red Shirt	51
	from Shadow and Light: An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century	53
	letters to The Cariboo Sentinel	65
	from The Life of Wm. H. H. Johnson, from 1839-1900, and the New Race	70
	from Notes made by Marie Albertina Stark (afterwards Mrs. Wallace) from the recollections of her mother, Sylvia Stark, who was born a slave in Clay County, Missouri, and settled on Salt Spring Island with her husband, Louis Stark, and family in the year 1860, as homesteaders	78
	from Opening Doors: Vancouver's East End	95
	from Opening Doors: Vancouver's East End	101
	from Opening Doors: Vancouver's East End	105
	from Opening Doors: Vancouver's East End	111
	from Opening Doors: Vancouver's East End	115
	from Being Brown: A Very Public Life	121
	Koopab ...	128
	The Return	128
	Mourne Fortune, Castries, St. Lucia	128
	Powell Street Conspiracy	136
	One Road to the Sea	136
	from "Blue Notes of a White Girl"	136
	Waiting	147
	Immigrant	147
	Hope Hotel	147
	The Literature of Africa and Its Diaspora: Black History Month, 1997	153
	from A Credit To Your Race	160
	Out of order / talk's about them folks jimi - a tale of black male of black mail	168
	Christopher's blues	168
	Talk'n about ho bo'n it jimmy	168
	1980	171
	Landed	171
	Repatriation	171
	Tongues in memory of Bob Marley	171
	Into Consciousness	171
	from Into and Out of Dislocation	183
	from Je me souviens: Memories of an Expatriate Anglophone Montrealaise, Quebecoise Exiled in Canada	194
	Returning to the place where there were so few of us when I grew up	197
	This Is Not the Miscegenation Blues of a Tragic Mulatto	197
	Mending Clothes as I Think of Sojourner Truth	197
	Like Koya	200
	Trunk Music	203
	Bus Fucking	213
	Sadie mae's mane	213
	Talk Show	215
	Biopsy	215
	Oh Joshua Fit de Battle	215
	Icarus	220
	Home Alone and Cooking	220
	When I Grow Up I Want To Be an Old Woman	220
	Land for Salt	225
	(for Sidane Arone)	225
	Hair: It Can Be a Big Thing	225
	from diss/ed banded nation	232
	from Threads	235
	Black Mary	245
	Bus Ride East	245
	from Shadowtown: Black Fist Rising	249
	Lena & Hue	253
	Offering	256
	from "The Lost Conquistador"	256
	Eshu Got Venus	261
	Back	265
	Dewdrop	265
	Natural Histories of Southwestern British Columbia	269
	JD	272
	Legba, Landed	272
	Bangkok Business	277
	Three	277
	Floored	277
	Red Sea Crossing	280
	Tizita	280
	Sex speaks	282
	AlterNation	282
	Fau(x)ve	282
	from Aunt Ermine's Recipe for Brown Sugar Fudge	282
	Dreaded Fist	291
	On Being a Black Woman in Canada (and Indian and English too) To the Tune of Pensees (VII Contradictions) by Blaise Pascal, Which Has Here Been Adapted to Show the Proper Terms by Which One Should Understand and Communicate One's Race, According to the Language and Syntactical Structure (and, By Way of Extension, the Philosophies and Logic) of One of the Greatest Modern Thinkers Ever to Have Lived	294
	A Bibliography of Black British Columbian Literature and Orature	297
	Publication Credits	303
	Notes on Contributors	307