ISBN:
9780773531055
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (652 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Blackness and Modernity : The Colour of Humanity and the Quest for Freedom
DDC:
305.896
Keywords:
Blacks ; Canada ; Ethnic identity
;
Blacks ; Canada ; Social conditions
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Blacks
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Canada ; Race relations
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Multiculturalism ; Canada
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cecil Foster presents a rigorous interdisciplinary analysis of blackness by challenging existing notions of blackness and arguing for the viability of a multicultural world.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- PART ONE -- Section One: Blackness and the Quest for Freedom -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Blackness: Method, Differences, Perspective -- 3 Meaning, Understanding, and Knowing -- 4 Common Sense Blackness: Existentialism, Epistemology, Ontology -- Section Two: Theoretical Frameworks -- 5 Blackness and Goodness: Frameworks of Study -- 6 Ideology That Privileges the Somatic -- 7 Phenomenology, History, and Paradigms -- 8 Blackness and Speculative Philosophy -- Section Three: Blackness: Quest for Whiteness in Western Thought -- 9 Greek Mythologies and Philosophies -- 10 The Cunning of Blackness -- 11 Blackness: Status, Citizenship, Death, and Rebirth -- 12 Slavery and Death -- 13 Ethno-Racial Bondage -- PART TWO -- Section Four: Canadian Blackness and Identity -- 14 Multiculturalism and Blackness -- 15 Promises of Multiculturalism -- 16 Blackness: Essences, Mythologies, and Positioning -- 17 Neo-Mythic Multiculturalism -- 18 Blackness: Social and Political in Canada -- 19 New Ideals of Canadian Blackness -- 20 Black Canada - Reconciliation? -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Contents""; ""Prologue""; ""PART ONE""; ""Section One: Blackness and the Quest for Freedom""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Blackness: Method, Differences, Perspective""; ""3 Meaning, Understanding, and Knowing""; ""4 Common Sense Blackness: Existentialism, Epistemology, Ontology""; ""Section Two: Theoretical Frameworks""; ""5 Blackness and Goodness: Frameworks of Study""; ""6 Ideology That Privileges the Somatic""; ""7 Phenomenology, History, and Paradigms""; ""8 Blackness and Speculative Philosophy""; ""Section Three: Blackness: Quest for Whiteness in Western Thought""
Description / Table of Contents:
""9 Greek Mythologies and Philosophies""""10 The Cunning of Blackness""; ""11 Blackness: Status, Citizenship, Death, and Rebirth""; ""12 Slavery and Death""; ""13 Ethno-Racial Bondage""; ""PART TWO""; ""Section Four: Canadian Blackness and Identity""; ""14 Multiculturalism and Blackness""; ""15 Promises of Multiculturalism""; ""16 Blackness: Essences, Mythologies, and Positioning""; ""17 Neo-Mythic Multiculturalism""; ""18 Blackness: Social and Political in Canada""; ""19 New Ideals of Canadian Blackness""; ""20 Black Canada � Reconciliation?""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""
Description / Table of Contents:
""D""""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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