Stephen Dorsey

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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 chil
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“My race duality has given me a unique perspective on both the Black and white experience in Canada. … What became most evident to me — most universal — was an important need for building bridges of understanding between Black and white Canadians. A need to inform and educate so that hopefully, in due time, we can achieve real change.”
Stephen Dorsey, Black and White: An Intimate, Multicultural Perspective on "White Advantage" and the Paths to Change

“My race duality has given me a unique perspective on both the Black and white experience in Canada. … What became most evident to me — most universal — was an important need for building bridges of understanding between Black and white Canadians. A need to inform and educate so that hopefully, in due time, we can achieve real change.”
Stephen Dorsey, Black and White: An Intimate, Multicultural Perspective on "White Advantage" and the Paths to Change

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