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| Name | Deneace Green |
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| Location | Calgary, AB |
| Biography | Deneace Green was born in Green Park, Clarendon, Jamaica, where she lived for the first six years of her life; after which, the absence of her parents caused her to live with her maternal grandmother for a year and a half. In January 1975, she immigrated to Toronto to join her parents. Green earned a double-major Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology and political science from the University of Toronto. She currently lives in Calgary, Alberta. |
| Publications | CALGARY, Alberta My Thoughts, My Life: The Life of a Black Woman Living in a White World is the first part of author Deneace Greens quartet, showcasing the life of a Black woman living in a world where the colour of her skin determines every facet of her life. My Thoughts, My Life is Greens story as a girl born in Jamaica, where she spent the first eight years of her life. She was still eight years old when her parents moved her to Toronto, the place where she grew up but never fitted into that society, as she describes. As an adult, she realized that in order to escape the claws of poverty, she had to leave the country she had called home for more than two-and-a-half decades. Green eventually found herself at home in a foreign land where upon her arrival she knew no one, nor could she speak the language. Greens story of the first thirty-five years of her life, encapsulated in this book, provides an opportunity for readers to live through the experiences of a typical Black woman. After reading her touching autobiography, some readers may choose to change the way they treat people, and others may choose to step out of the known and into the unknown in order to make their way out of their current hellish situation, while others, still, may choose to maintain their status quo. Written with conviction and honesty, this is Greens way of making it known that, despite the various constitutional and international human rights laws that globally legislate the contrary, racism is too readily practised and tolerated in every society in the world today. She contends, Some may choose to see racism in their own practises and make amends, and others may choose to more cleverly disguise their racial discrimination; but, every reader will understand at least one impact of racism in todays society. My Thoughts, My Life: Institutionalized Racism in Canada, published in 2011 |
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