03550nam 2200721Ia 450 991078984740332120231206211004.01-282-86628-197866128662890-7735-7581-210.1515/9780773575813(CKB)2670000000079257(OCoLC)716068577(CaPaEBR)ebrary10424099(SSID)ssj0000478044(PQKBManifestationID)11320065(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000478044(PQKBWorkID)10420021(PQKB)10362414(CEL)432802(CaBNvSL)slc00225647(Au-PeEL)EBL3332024(CaPaEBR)ebr10558973(CaONFJC)MIL286628(OCoLC)923233815(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/n6g6x0(MiAaPQ)EBC3332024(DE-B1597)657887(DE-B1597)9780773575813(MiAaPQ)EBC3271139(EXLCZ)99267000000007925720071121d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBlackness and modernity[electronic resource] the colour of humanity and the quest for freedom /Cecil FosterMontreal McGill-Queen's University Pressc20071 online resource (652 p.)0-7735-3247-1 0-7735-3105-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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?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.Black peopleCanadaEthnic identityBlack peopleCanadaSocial conditionsMulticulturalismCanadaBlack peopleCanadaRace relationsBlack peopleEthnic identity.Black peopleSocial conditions.MulticulturalismBlack people.305.896/071Foster Cecil1563048MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789847403321Blackness and modernity3853541UNINA