Ruby Smith Díaz
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From  NEW! Chapter 1: QuerenciaFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter recounts the early life and background of Serafim Fortes. Included is an image of a handwritten note signed by Serafim. | Ruby Smith Díaz | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 2: He Always Followed the SeaFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter further discusses Serafim’s early life, him leaving his home in Kairi, his travels and treatment while sailing on the Robert Kerr. | Ruby Smith Díaz | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 3: All Crab Find Dey HoleFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter details how the crew aboard the Robert Kerr, including Serafim, came to land in Vancouver and the communities settling on the land at this time. | Ruby Smith Díaz | 16 | 2025 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 4: Reading Between the Lines of White SupremacyFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter discusses the impact racism and white supremacy had on the preservation of Black history in Vancouver and why it made difficult for Díaz to locate true details of … | Ruby Smith Díaz | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 5: Quantifying MelaninFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter uses archival materials to showcase the ways Serafim’s Blackness was quantified, classified and written about by white residents in Vancouver, a practice that has throughout … | Ruby Smith Díaz | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 6: Joe Fortes, Model Negro CitizenFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter, using historical excerpts and images, highlights the racism experienced by non-white communities and by Serafim in the early 1900s. | Ruby Smith Díaz | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 7: On Love and Being LovedFrom: Searching for Serafim |
The chapter explores what is known and unknown about the relationships in Serafim’s life, and the challenges for racialized communities during this period in Vancouver’s past as well … | Ruby Smith Díaz | 20 | 2025 | $2.00 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 8: LegacyFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter recounts the final years of Serafim’s life, sharing Serafim’s final reflections on the life he lived and how he was chosen to be remembered by those in Vancouver. | Ruby Smith Díaz | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 9: Soliloquy for SerafimFrom: Searching for Serafim |
In this final chapter the author shares her thoughts and recounts the life of Serafim Fortes. | Ruby Smith Díaz | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! IntroductionFrom: Searching for Serafim |
Ruby Smith Díaz shares her experience searching for images of Black Canadians throughout history and why she chose to research the life of Serafim "Joe" Fortes. | Ruby Smith Díaz | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! Notes and BibliographyFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter includes the authors notes and bibliography. | Ruby Smith Díaz | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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NEW! Searching for SerafimThe Life and Legacy of Serafim "Joe" Fortes |
In Searching for Serafim, author Ruby Smith Díaz seeks to unravel the complicated legacy of a local legend Serafim "Joe" Fortes. She draws from historical documents to form a … | Ruby Smith Díaz | 144 | 2025 | View |
