Blackness and modernity [[electronic resource] ] : the colour of humanity and the quest for freedom / / Cecil Foster

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789847403321
• Autore: Foster Cecil
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2007
• ISBN: 1-282-86628-1; 9786612866289; 0-7735-7581-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (652 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.896/071
• Soggetti: Black people - Canada - Ethnic identity; Black people - Canada - Social conditions; Multiculturalism - Canada; Black people; Canada Race relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Sect. 1. 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 -- Sect. 2. 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 -- Sect. 3. 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 -- Sect. 4. 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?
• Sommario/riassunto: In Blackness and Modernity Foster traces the main philosophical, ; anthropological, sociological, and mythological arguments that support views of modernity as a failed quest for whiteness. He outlines how these views were implemented as part of a "world history" and shows how Canada became the first country to officially reject this approach by adopting multiculturalism.