Black like who? : writing Black Canada / / by Rinaldo Walcott

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825422003321
• Autore: Walcott Rinaldo <1965->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, Ont., : Insomniac Press, c2003
• ISBN: 1-280-91055-0; 9786610910557; 1-4593-0907-3; 1-897414-47-1
• Edizione: [2nd rev. ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (192 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.896/071
• Soggetti: Blacks - Canada; Blacks - Race identity - Canada; Arts, Black - Canada
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-182) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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