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Social Science Discrimination & Race Relations

Challenging Racism in the Arts

Case Studies of Controversy and Conflict

by (author) Carol Tator, Frances Henry & Winston Mattis

Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Initial publish date
Jul 1998
Category
Discrimination & Race Relations
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802071705
    Publish Date
    Jul 1998
    List Price
    $31.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442672802
    Publish Date
    Jun 1998
    List Price
    $91.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802008084
    Publish Date
    Jul 1998
    List Price
    $72.00

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In this thoughtful and lucid analysis, framed by their contention that 'cultural production is one way in which society gives voice to racism,' Carol Tator, Frances Henry, and Winston Matthis examine how six controversial Canadian cultural events have given rise to a new 'radical' or 'critical' multiculturalism.

Mainstream culture has increasingly become the locus for challenge by racial minorities. Beginning with the Royal Ontario Museum's Into the Heart of Africa exhibition, and following through with discussions of Show Boat, Miss Saigon, the exhibition of the Barnes Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the 'Writing Thru Race' conference in Vancouver, and the ill-fated attempts to acquire a licence for a black/dance radio station in Toronto, the authors examine manifestations of racism in Canada's cultural production over the last decade. A 'radical' multiculturalism, they argue, is difference as a politicized force, and arises whenever cultural imperialism is challenged.

About the authors

Carol Tator is Course Director in the Department of Anthropology at York University.

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Frances Henry is professor emerita at York University and a member of the Royal Society of Canada specializing in Caribbean studies. She is author of The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities and He Had the Power: Pa Neezer, the Orisha King of Trinidad. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Canadian Studies and Canadian Ethnic Studies.

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Winston mattis is a lawyer specializing in employment law.

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