"White Niggers of America"
- Artist/Author/Producer: Vallieres, Pierre
- Confronting Bodies: The Government of Canada
- Dates of action: 1970
- Location: Canada
- Description of the Art Work
- "White Niggers of America", 1968: autobiography of a Quebec terrorist,
part autobiography and part history of Quebec of revolutionary doctrine.
- Description of incident
- 1970 Canada: "White Niggers of America" subtitled "the Precocious
Autobiography of a Quebec 'Terrorist'" written in French while the author
was in jail. It was confiscated when the author was charged with
sedition.
- Results of incident
- 1970 Canada: A French import of "White Niggers of America" was banned in
Canada under the War Measures Act. Published in the United States in
1971 by Monthly Review Press.
Source: Banned Books 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D., by Anne Lyon Haight, and Chandler B.
Grannis, R.R. Bowker Co, 1978.
