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Whiteout : how Canada cancels Blackness
- Title
- Whiteout : how Canada cancels Blackness / George Elliott Clarke.
- Author
- Clarke, George Elliott
- Publication
- Montřal, Qǔbec, Canada : V̌hicule Press, [2023]
- ©2023
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- Description
- 337 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- "In Whiteout: How Canada Cancels Blackness, his new and essential collection of essays, George Elliott Clarke exposes the various ways in which the Canadian imagination demonizes, excludes, and oppresses Blackness. Clarke's range is extraordinary: he canvasses African-Canadian writers who have tracked Black invisibility, highlights the racist bias of true crime writing, reveals the whitewashing of African-Canadian perspectives in universities, and excoriates the political failure to reckon with the tragedy of Africville, the once-thriving, 'Africadian' community whose last home was razed in 1970. For Clarke, Canada's relentless celebration of itself as a site of 'multicultural humanitarianism' has blinded White leaders and citizens to the country's many crimes, at home and abroad, thus blacking out the historical record. These essays yield an alternate history of Canada, a corrective revision that Clarke describes as 'inking words on snow, evanescent and ephemeral.'"--
- Subject
- Black people in literature
- Race in literature
- Canadian literature > Black authors > History and criticism
- Canadian literature > History and criticism
- Black people > Canada > Social conditions
- Black people > Canada > Intellectual life
- Black people > Social conditions
- Race relations
- Racism
- Canadian literature > Black authors
- Canadian literature
- Black people
- Black people > Intellectual life
- Canada > Race relations
- Canada
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-304).
- Call Number
- Sc C 23-234
- ISBN
- 9781550656077
- 1550656074
- OCLC
- 1373262305
- Author
- Clarke, George Elliott, author.
- Title
- Whiteout : how Canada cancels Blackness / George Elliott Clarke.
- Publisher
- Montřal, Qǔbec, Canada : V̌hicule Press, [2023]
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-304).
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc C 23-234