"Akim Aliu — also known as “Dreamer” — is a Ukrainian-Nigerian-Canadian professional hockey player whose career took him all around the world and who experienced systemic racism at every turn. Dreamer tells Akim's incredible story, from being the only Black child in his Ukrainian community, to his family struggling to make ends meet while living in Toronto, to confronting the racist violence he often experienced both on and off the ice. This is a gut-wrenching and riveting graphic novel memoir that reminds us to never stop dreaming, and is sure to inspire young readers everywhere." -- publisher
Themes & Content
- Central Theme Categories
- Biography/Autobiography
- Cross Group
- Content
- Activism/Social Justice Movements
- Diverse Families/Family Dynamics
- Inequalities
- Interpersonal Abuse/Violence
- Languages & Communication
- Race-Related
- Relocation Narratives
- School/Extracurricular Activities
- Ethnicity
- Canadian
- Multiethnic
- Nigerian
- Ukrainian
- Immigration Representation
- Immigrants
- Gender Representation
- Boys/Men
- Girls/Women
- Sexual Orientation / Relationship Representation
- Heterosexual
- Race / Culture
- Bi/Multiracial/Mixed Race
- Black/African/African American
- White/European American/Caucasian
- Character Prominence
- Dominant Main
- Secondary
