In this episode of Teachin’ Books, host Jessica McDonald talks to Dr. Joanne Leow, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan, about teaching David Chariandy’s novel Brother.

• Find out more about David Chariandy’s novel Brother.
• You can find Karina Vernon’s edited anthology The Black Prairie Archives at Wilfrid Laurier University Press. And you can find her U Winnipeg English talk “Changing the Prairie Story: Reading Black & Black-Indigenous Writers in the Prairie Archive” here on YouTube.
• Go here to listen to Nina Simone sing “Ne Me Quitte Pas.”
• Some of the texts Joanne refers to include: “mihkokwaniy” by Joshua Whitehead; “This is America” by Childish Gambino; “Harlem” by Langston Hughes; “Empire State of Mind” by Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys; the play Reasonable Doubt(created by Joel Bernbaum, Lancelot Knight, and Yvette Nolan); the play Consecrated Groundby George Boyd; the Unteachable documentary.

The podcast music is by Dyalla Swain, whose work you can find here. The podcast graphics are by @muskrathands.

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 **Read the transcript for this episode here.**