Black Like Who?
Black Like Who? is Rinaldo Walcott's first book. It was published in 1997 by Insomniac Press in Toronto.
This book came out of Walcott's PhD research which focused on rap music and culture.[1] The essays in Black Like Who? demonstrate Walcott's expanded interest concerning the theorizing of Black Canada more generally. The titles of essays included in this compilation will indicate the breadth of Walcott's scholarly engagement with themes related to the Black Canadian experiences and expressions:[2]
Introduction: Writing Blackness After...
"Going to the North": The Limit of Black Diasporic Discourse(s)
“A Tough Geography": Towards a Poetics of Black Space(s) in Canada
The Politics of Third Cinema in Canada: Reading the Narrative of Clement Virgo's Rude
"Keep on Movin'": Rap, Black Atlantic Identities and the Problem of Nation
In this chapter, Walcott makes reference to Soul II Soul's song "Keep on Movin'" as a way to think about the fluidity of the black experience and different pieces that comprise it. Walcott brings up the interesting point of the ability of music to disperse itself beyond its “borders” and appeal to the black community at large. As Walcott points out, this dispersal is often seen when these songs reference thing (police practices, etc) that resonate with black communities across the globe. The chapter considers both the trials and triumphs that those in the United States consider to be a central part of black culture or being black, and how those same struggles and successes are mirrored in other places. Furthermore, this chapter calls into the idea of the nation-state and how the black (specifically Canadian) community dismantles it.
"No Language is Neutral": The Politics of Performativity in M. Nourbese Philip's and Dionne Brand's Poetry
Black Subjectivities: Ethnicity, Race and the Politics of Film in Canada
Scattered Speculations on Canadian Blackness; Or, Grammar for Black
Several of these essays have been published or republished in other sources.[2]
References[edit]
- ↑ http://www.research.utoronto.ca/edge/fall2003/nextgen4.html
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Walcott, Rinaldo. Black Like Who? Toronto: Insomniac Press, 1997.
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