Literary Criticism African American
Black Like Who?
20th anniversary edition
- Publisher
- Insomniac Press
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2018
- Category
- African American
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781895837070
- Publish Date
- Mar 2003
- List Price
- $21.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781894663403
- Publish Date
- Mar 2003
- List Price
- $21.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781554832071
- Publish Date
- Jun 2018
- List Price
- $19.95
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Downloadable audio file
- ISBN
- 9781773057378
- Publish Date
- Jul 2021
- List Price
- $32.99
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Description
Twenty years ago Rinaldo Walcott's groundbreaking study of black culture in Canada, Black Like Who?, caused such an uproar upon its publication Insomniac Press has produced a special 20th anniversary edition. 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 Canadian realities as he is on the rap, Walcott's essays are thought-provoking and always controversial in the best sense of the word. They have added and continue to add immeasurably to public debate.
About the author
Rinaldo Walcott is an associate professor at OISE, University of Toronto. His research and teaching is in the area of black diaspora cultural studies with an emphasis on queer sexualities, masculinity and cultural politics. He is the author of Black Like Who (1997); he edited Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism (2000); and the co-editor Counselling Across and Beyond Cultures (2010).
