We are excited to share a terrific interview from CTV News with client and speaker Stephen Dorsey, author of BLACK & WHITE in a segment Recognizing Black History Month!
Black & White is an intimate, multicultural perspective on “White Advantage” and the paths to change.
As a bilingual, biracial man, straddling Black and white, English and French Canada, Stephen Dorsey lives in a world of dualities. In his deeply personal and insightful debut, he offers readers intimate and unfiltered access to his lived experience of anti-Black racism around the world, including Canada, the United States, and Europe, focusing on his formative years growing up in 1970s Montreal as a Black child in a white family headed by a racist stepfather, and details his personal awakening inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement.
A powerful blend of autobiography and social analysis, Black & White is an intimate excavation of systemic racism in North America — from our health-care and education systems, to policing and law, to a deep analysis of the uniquely intersectional discrimination faced by minorities in Dorsey’s home province of Quebec. With an inclusive and accessible approach, aimed at community connection and education, Dorsey delves deep into Canada’s history of racial discrimination and, by contrasting it with that of our American neighbours, debunks our nation’s mythological narrative, providing necessary context on white privilege, which he calls “white advantage”, and offers concrete pathways to lasting societal change.
Holding readers gently to account, Black & White is the book for the ally in all of us.
About the author:
Born in the suburbs of Montreal in 1966 to a white French-Canadian mother and a Black American father who had left by the time he was born, Stephen Dorsey has always lived in a world of dualities. As a bilingual, biracial man, straddling Black and white, English and French Canada.
In his deeply personal and insightful debut, he offers readers intimate and unfiltered access to his lived experience of anti-Black racism around the world, including Canada, the United States, and Europe, focusing on his formative years growing up in 1970s Montreal as a Black child in a white family headed by a racist stepfather, and details his personal awakening inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement.
Stephen lives in Toronto, Canada, with his two young children. He also leads his own marketing management consultancy and creative studio.
To watch this interview, follow this link: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/mobile/video?clipId=2623202&binId=1.1184756&playlistPageNum=1
Stephen is represented by Samantha Haywood, as well as Rob Firing for the Speakers Division.