Blackness and modernity [[electronic resource] ] : the colour of humanity and the quest for freedom / / Cecil Foster
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| Autore: |
Foster Cecil
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| Titolo: |
Blackness and modernity [[electronic resource] ] : the colour of humanity and the quest for freedom / / Cecil Foster
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| Pubblicazione: | Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (652 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.896/071 |
| Soggetto topico: | Black people - Canada - Ethnic identity |
| Black people - Canada - Social conditions | |
| Multiculturalism - Canada | |
| Black people | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Canada Race relations |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Blackness and modernity |
| ISBN: | 1-282-86628-1 |
| 9786612866289 | |
| 0-7735-7581-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910789847403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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