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Nominated for the Heritage Toronto Book Award * Longlisted for the
Toronto Book Awards * A Globe and Mail Book of the Year * A CBC
Books Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2021 From plantation rebellion to
prison labour's super-exploitation, Walcott examines the
relationship between policing and property. That a man can lose his
life for passing a fake $20 bill when we know our economies are
flush with fake money says something damning about the way we've
organized society. Yet the intensity of the calls to abolish the
police after George Floyd's death surprised almost everyone. What,
exactly, does abolition mean? How did we get here? And what does
property have to do with it? In On Property, Rinaldo Walcott
explores the long shadow cast by slavery's afterlife and shows how
present-day abolitionists continue the work of their forebears in
service of an imaginative, creative philosophy that ensures freedom
and equality for all. Thoughtful, wide-ranging, compassionate, and
profound, On Property makes an urgent plea for a new ethics of
care.
In The Long Emancipation Rinaldo Walcott posits that Black people
globally live in the time of emancipation and that emancipation is
definitely not freedom. Taking examples from across the globe, he
argues that wherever Black people have been emancipated from
slavery and colonization, a potential freedom has been thwarted.
Walcott names this condition the long emancipation-the ongoing
interdiction of potential Black freedom and the continuation of the
juridical and legislative status of Black nonbeing. Stating that
Black people have yet to experience freedom, Walcott shows that
being Black in the world is to exist in the time of emancipation in
which Black people must constantly fashion alternate conceptions of
freedom and reality through expressive culture. Given that Black
unfreedom lies at the center of the making of the modern world, the
attainment of freedom for Black people, Walcott contends, will
transform the human experience worldwide. With The Long
Emancipation, Walcott offers a new humanism that begins by
acknowledging that present conceptions of what it means to be human
do not currently include Black people.
At the end of a century of unfathomable suffering, societies are
facing anew the question of how events that shock, resist
assimilation, and evoke contradictory and complex responses should
be remembered. Between Hope and Despair specifically examines the
pedagogical problem of how remembrance is to proceed when what is
to be remembered is underscored by a logic difficult to comprehend
and subversive of the humane character of existence. This
pedagogical attention to practices of remembrance reflects the
growing cognizance that hope for a just and compassionate future
lies in the sustained, if troubled, working through of these
issues.
In The Long Emancipation Rinaldo Walcott posits that Black people
globally live in the time of emancipation and that emancipation is
definitely not freedom. Taking examples from across the globe, he
argues that wherever Black people have been emancipated from
slavery and colonization, a potential freedom has been thwarted.
Walcott names this condition the long emancipation-the ongoing
interdiction of potential Black freedom and the continuation of the
juridical and legislative status of Black nonbeing. Stating that
Black people have yet to experience freedom, Walcott shows that
being Black in the world is to exist in the time of emancipation in
which Black people must constantly fashion alternate conceptions of
freedom and reality through expressive culture. Given that Black
unfreedom lies at the center of the making of the modern world, the
attainment of freedom for Black people, Walcott contends, will
transform the human experience worldwide. With The Long
Emancipation, Walcott offers a new humanism that begins by
acknowledging that present conceptions of what it means to be human
do not currently include Black people.
Now available after over four decades, the first collection of
short fiction from bestselling author and Barbadian-born Canadian
luminary Austin Clarke - winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the
Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and the Trillium Book Award for his
novel The Polished Hoe - is a vital, lyrical, and provocative
exploration of the Black immigrant experience in Canada. Originally
issued in 1971, Austin Clarke's first published collection of
eleven remarkable stories showcases his groundbreaking approach to
chronicling the Caribbean diaspora experience in Canada. Characters
move through the mire of working life, of establishing a home for
themselves, of reconciling with what and who they left behind - all
the while contending with a place in which their bone-chilling
reception is both social and atmospheric. In lyrical, often racy,
and wholly unforgettable prose, Clarke portrays a set of
provocative, scintillating portraits of the psychological realities
faced by people of colour in a society so often lauded for its
geniality and openness.
Canada likes to present itself as a paragon of gay rights. This
book contends that Canada's acceptance of gay rights, while being
beneficial to some, obscures and abets multiple forms of oppression
to the detriment and exclusion of some queer and trans bodies.
Disrupting Queer Inclusion seeks to unsettle the assumption that
inclusion equals justice. Offering a fresh analysis of the
complexity of queer politics and activism, contributors detail how
the fight for acceptance engenders complicity in a system that
fortifies white supremacy, furthers settler colonialism, advances
neoliberalism, and props up imperialist mythologies.
Canada likes to present itself as a paragon of gay rights. This
book contends that Canada's acceptance of gay rights, while being
beneficial to some, obscures and abets multiple forms of oppression
to the detriment and exclusion of some queer and trans bodies.
Disrupting Queer Inclusion seeks to unsettle the assumption that
inclusion equals justice. Offering a fresh analysis of the
complexity of queer politics and activism, contributors detail how
the fight for acceptance engenders complicity in a system that
fortifies white supremacy, furthers settler colonialism, advances
neoliberalism, and props up imperialist mythologies.
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