In Whiteout:Â How Canada Cancels Blackness, his new and
essential collection of essays, George Elliott Clarke exposes the
various ways in which the Canadian imagination demonizes, excludes,
and oppresses Blackness. Clarke’s range is extraordinary: he
canvasses African-Canadian writers who have tracked Black
invisibility, highlights the racist bias of our true crime writing,
reveals the whitewashing of African-Canadian perspectives in
universities, and excoriates the political failure to reckon with
the tragedy of Africville, the once-thriving, "Africadian"
community whose last home was razed in 1970. For Clarke, Canada’s
relentless celebration of itself as a site of “multicultural
humanitarianism” has blinded White leaders and citizens to the
country’s many crimes, at home and abroad, thus blacking out the
historical record. These essays yield an alternate history of
Canada, a corrective revision that Clarke describes as “inking
words on snow, evanescent and ephemeral.”
General
| Imprint: |
Vehicule Press
|
| Country of origin: |
Canada |
| Release date: |
August 2023 |
| Authors: |
George Elliott Clarke
|
| Dimensions: |
190 x 139mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
300 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-55065-607-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-55065-607-4 |
| Barcode: |
9781550656077 |
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