ISBN:
9781897414477
,
1897414471
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (187 p.)
Edition:
2nd rev. ed.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Black like who?
DDC:
305.896071
Keywords:
Blacks Canada
;
Blacks Race identity
;
Canada
;
Arts, Black Canada
;
Noirs Canada
;
Noirs Identité ethnique
;
Canada
;
Black Canadians Kanada
;
Schwarze
;
Canada
;
Blacks
;
Blacks Race identity
;
Arts, Black
;
Arts, Black
;
Blacks Race identity
;
Blacks
;
Electronic books
;
Blacks ; Race identity
;
Kultur
;
Ethnische Identität
;
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Cultural Heritage
;
Arts, Black
;
Blacks
;
Canada
;
Kanada
;
Kanada
;
Schwarze
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Biografie
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Biografie
Abstract:
Introduction to the Second Edition: Still Writing Blackness; Introduction to the First Edition: Writing Blackness After ... ; 1. "Going to the North"; 2. "A Tough Geography"; 3. Desiring to Belong?; 4. "No Language is Neutral"; 5. The Politics of Third Cinema in Canada; 6. Black Subjectivities; 7. "Keep on Movin'"; 8. After Origins; 9. Scattered Speculations on Canadian Blackness; ; Notes; Bibliography/Discography/Filmography; Index; Acknowledgements.
Abstract:
Rinaldo Walcott's groundbreaking study of black culture in Canada, Black Like Who?, caused such an uproar upon its publication in 1997 that Insomniac Press has decided to publish a second revised edition of this perennial best-seller. With its incisive readings of hip-hop, film, literature, social unrest, sports, music and the electronic media, Walcott's book not only assesses the role of black Canadians in defining Canada, it also argues strenuously against any notion of an essentialist Canadian blackness. As erudite on the issue of American super-critic Henry Louis Gates' blindness to black
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-182) and index. - Description based on print version record
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