Blackness and modernity : the colour of humanity and the quest for freedom / Cecil Foster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foster, Cecil, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Canada--Ethnic identity.

Black people.

Black people--Canada--Social conditions.

Multiculturalism--Canada.

Multiculturalism.

Canada--Race relations.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (652 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-86628-1

9786612866289

0-7735-7581-2

OCLC:

716068577