In Blackness and Modernity Foster traces the main philosophical, anthropological, sociological, and mythological arguments that support views of modernity as a failed quest for whiteness.

In Blackness and Modernity Foster traces the main philosophical, anthropological, sociological, and mythological arguments that support views of modernity as a failed quest for whiteness. He outlines how these views were implemented as part of a "world history" and shows how Canada became the first country to officially reject this approach by adopting multiculturalism.

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This book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on one of the largest immigrant groups in the West.

Cecil Foster raises the question of what Black and Blackness entail, and spends the bulk of his writing in providing answers. This book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on one of the largest immigrant groups in the West.

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Section One Blackness and the Quest for Freedom. We shall take a closer look in this chapter at the quest for freedom within an ever-changing lordship and bondage relationship that is the underpinning of Western aspirations and thought. Slavery, as Orlando Patterson argues, is the other to freedom: to talk about one is to speak indirectly about the other. As Patterson further states, freedom has meaning only in comparison to bondage, whether physical or social. Indeed, whether of a people or of an individual, slavery was anathema to the Enlightenment that spawned modernity.

Cecil Foster presents a rigorous interdisciplinary analysis of blackness by challenging existing notions of blackness and arguing for the viability of a multicultural world. In Blackness and Modernity Foster traces the main philosophical, anthropological, sociological, and mythological arguments that support views of modernity as a failed quest for whiteness.

Blackness and Modernity. The Colour of Humanity and the Quest for Freedom. Cecil Foster presents a rigorous interdisciplinary analysis of blackness by challenging existing notions of blackness and arguing for the viability of a multicultural world

Blackness and Modernity. Cultural Studies, Sociology, Black Studies, Sociology: Canada. Use the dropdown to select a format. Cecil Foster presents a rigorous interdisciplinary analysis of blackness by challenging existing notions of blackness and arguing for the viability of a multicultural world.