Blackness and Modernity : The Colour of Humanity and the Quest for Freedom.

Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- PART ONE -- Section One: Blackness and the Quest for Freedom -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Blackness: Method, Differences, Perspective -- 3 Meaning, Understanding, and Knowing -- 4 Common Sense Blackness: Existentialism, Epistemology, Ontology -- Section Two: Theoretical Frameworks -- 5 Blackness and Goodness: Frameworks of Study -- 6 Ideology That Privileges the Somatic -- 7 Phenomenology, History, and Paradigms -- 8 Blackness and Speculative Philosophy -- Section Three: Blackness: Quest for Whiteness in Western Thought -- 9 Greek Mythologies and Philosophies -- 10 The Cunning of Blackness -- 11 Blackness: Status, Citizenship, Death, and Rebirth -- 12 Slavery and Death -- 13 Ethno-Racial Bondage -- PART TWO -- Section Four: Canadian Blackness and Identity -- 14 Multiculturalism and Blackness -- 15 Promises of Multiculturalism -- 16 Blackness: Essences, Mythologies, and Positioning -- 17 Neo-Mythic Multiculturalism -- 18 Blackness: Social and Political in Canada -- 19 New Ideals of Canadian Blackness -- 20 Black Canada - Reconciliation? -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Cecil Foster presents a rigorous interdisciplinary analysis of blackness by challenging existing notions of blackness and arguing for the viability of a multicultural world.

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