Social Science Discrimination & Race Relations
Blackness and Modernity
The Colour of Humanity and the Quest for Freedom
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2007
- Category
- Discrimination & Race Relations
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773531055
- Publish Date
- May 2007
- List Price
- $110.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780773532472
- Publish Date
- May 2007
- List Price
- $37.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773575813
- Publish Date
- May 2007
- List Price
- $95.00
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Description
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.
About the author
CECIL FOSTER was born in Barbados and immigrated to Canada in 1978. He has been a reporter for The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and the Financial Post and has contributed to such magazines as Chatelaine, Maclean’s, Toronto Life, NOW and Canadian Business. He has also worked for the CBC (in radio and television) and CTV and is a regular commentator in the national media. He has published five works of non-fiction and four novels, including his highly praised debut, No Man in the House. Currently, Foster is a professor of sociology at the University of Guelph and is director of graduate studies in the department of transnational studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Independence is his first novel in almost twelve years.