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Contribution to Book
Wrestling with Multicultural Snake Oil: A Newcomer’s Introduction to Black Canada
Unsettling the Great White North: Black Canadian History
(2021)
Abstract
Concluding chapter of Unsettling the Great White North, an exhaustive volume of leading scholarship in the field of Black Canadian history that highlights the diverse experiences of persons of African descent within the chronicles of Canada’s past. The book considers histories and theoretical framings within the disciplines of history, sociology, law, and cultural and gender studies to chart the mechanisms of exclusion and marginalization in "multicultural" Canada and to situate Black Canadians as speakers and agents of their own lives. Working to interrupt the myth of benign whiteness that has been deeply implanted into the country’s imagination, contributors use chronological, regional, and thematic analyses to reconsider and uncover new narratives of Black life in Canada.
Keywords
- Multiculturalism,
- Black Canadian History,
- Black Futures,
- Afro-Futurism,
- In Search of the Black Fantastic
Disciplines
Publication Date
2021
Editor
Michele A. Johnson and Funké Aladejebi
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
ISBN
9781487529178
Citation Information
Daniel McNeil. "Wrestling with Multicultural Snake Oil: A Newcomer’s Introduction to Black Canada" Unsettling the Great White North: Black Canadian History (2021) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/danielmcneil/43/