Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2021
Department
English & Film Studies
Abstract
Within the Canadian nation-state, Blackness, including Black geographies, is rendered both invisible and hyper-visible, tokenized, and criminalized. While narratives of Canada’s racial inclusion and exceptional democracy suggest that it is a more tolerant nation than its southern neighbor, the United States, experiences of historical and contemporary racism by Black, Indigenous and other racialized peoples in Canada prove that racism is, in fact, an enduring and shared characteristic of North American settler colonial societies.
Recommended Citation
Davis, Andrea A., Campbell, Aysha C., and Molubi, Michelle. “'They are blue and pretty and wild': Race, Place and Black Interiority in David Chariandy’s Brother". Interdisciplinary Humanities (Spring 2021), pp. 155-176.