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Performing postracialism : reflections on antiblackness, nation, and education through contemporary blackface in Canada /

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"Blackface--instances in which non-Black persons temporarily darken their skin with make-up to impersonate Black people, usually for fun, and frequently in educational contexts--constitutes a postracialist pedagogy that propagates antiblack logics. In Performing Postracialism, Philip S.S. Howar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Howard, Philip S. S., 1964- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2023.
Subjects:
Blackface > Canada.
Racism against Black people > Canada.
Racism in higher education.
College students, Black > Canada.
Canada > Race relations.
Blackface.
College students, Black.
Race relations.
Racism against Black people.
Canada.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Contemporary Blackface in Canada as Performance of Antiblackness
  • What's the Joke? The Black Body as White Pleasure in Canadian Blackface
  • Defending Blackface: Performing the "Progressive," Postracialist Canadian
  • Pornotroping Performances: Overt Violence, Un/Gendering, and Sex in Contemporary Blackface
  • Blackface at University: The Antiblack Logics of Canadian Academia
  • "Making Them Better Leaders": The Pedagogical Imperative, Institutional Priorities, and the Attenuation of Black Anger
  • Learning to Get Along at School, or Antiblack Postracialism through Multicultural Education
  • The Costs of Belonging for International Students
  • Fugitive Learning: Countering Postracialism and Making Black Life at University.