| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 326 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Part I. Call and response : analyzing Ebony roots -- Panel #1 response : visual culture and institutions. Inside out : production and reception in Canadian cultural institutions / Charmaine A. Nelson -- Panel #2 response : Popular culture. Identity, capitalism and the mainstream : towards a critical practice of Black Canadian popular culture / Charmaine A. Nelson -- Panel #3 response : institutional racism. Visible minorities, invisible racism : racism and academic institutions / Yumma Siddiqi -- Panel #4 response : Nation, politics, belonging. Out of northwhere : nation, politics and belonging / Jenny Burman -- Panel #5 response : cultural production, media and representation. Theorizing Canadian blackness : place and cultural production in the Black diaspora / Kai Mah -- Part II. From the personal to the collective : practicing history and narrative as social critique -- Ignoring the pool : de-mystifying race in Canada through practice / Anthony Stewart -- The question of the question is the foreigner : the spectre of blackness and the economy of hospitality in Canada / Awad Ibrahim -- Our disappointments / Dolores Sandoval -- All roads led to Montreal : Black power and the Black radical tradition in Canada / David Austin -- Part III. Multi-culturing blackness : questions of identity, difference and belonging -- Towards a methodology for reading hip hop in Canada / Rinaldo Walcott -- 'Connect the T.dots' : remix multiculturalism : after Caribbean-Canadian, social possibilities for living difference / Mark V. Campbell -- (Up)rooting claims to legitimacy : blackness and the Canadian national imaginary in Djanet Sears's Adventures of a Black girl in search of God and Afua Cooper's Negro cemeteries / Sharon Morgan Beckford -- Keeping it real : Blacks and multiculturalism -- the search for recognition and authenticity in Canada / Cecil Foster. |
| Summary |
Ebony Roots, Northern Soil is a powerful and timely collection of critical essays exploring the experiences, histories and cultural engagements of black Canadians. Drawing from postcolonial, critical race and black feminist theory, this innovative anthology brings together an extraordinary set of well-recognized and new scholars engaging in the critical debates about the cultural politics of identity and issues of cultural access, representation, production and reception. Emerging from a nati ... |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Black people -- Canada.
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Black people. |
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Canada. |
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Canada -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
| Genre/Form |
Kongress -- Montreal -- 2005.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Nelson, Charmaine.
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| Added Title |
Perspectives on blackness in Canada |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Ebony roots, northern soil. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010 1443825646 (DLC) 2010551502 (OCoLC)677915243 |
| ISBN |
9781443826044 (electronic book) |
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1443826049 (electronic book) |
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1283141787 |
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9781283141789 |
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1443825646 |
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9781443825641 |
| Standard No. |
9786613141781 |
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