I've Been Meaning To Tell You

After growing up in Canada as a child of mixed-race immigrant parents from Trinidad, David Chariandy weaves between past and present to demonstrate the complex world that he and his children have to navigate as people of colour in this country. Written as a letter to his daughter, this memoir is full of examples, dialogue, anecdotes, and narration to support and guide his child to feel at home in her skin and country. Appropriate for a senior secondary audience, this short text may segue into a study of the consequences of Canada’s colonial past or an exploration and examination of letter-writing and memoir to engender transformation. It may also serve as a relevant Canadian resource to support the study of the Black Lives Matter movement.