A Place Called Heaven: The Meaning of Being Black in Canada
Hard-hitting, controversial and well researched, A PLACE CALLED HEAVEN lifts the thin veil of racism against blacks in Canada. Cecil Foster maintains that what Canada’s mainstream delivers to the black community is skewed justice, fear as a first response, fair-weather political representation, and a sensationalist media. Exploring how crime, violence, immigration and women’s issues all influence and affect the present and future of the black community, Foster shatters the myth of black cultural homogeneity and looks behind the stereotypes and statistics to find out what’s happening within the black community itself.
Cecil Foster is a Canadian novelist, scholar and journalist. Foster is a professor in the Africana and American Studies department (formerly known as Transnational Studies) University at Buffalo. He has published extensively on Canadian “multiculturalism,” and his works explore the historical and contemporary experiences of Black Canadians.
Other publications from this author include:
- THEY CALL ME GEORGE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BLACK TRAIN PORTERS (2019)
- Independence (2014)
- Blackness and Modernity: The Colour of Humanity and the Quest for Freedom (2007)
- Where Race Does Not Matter: The New Spirit of Modernity (2005)
- Dry Bone Memories (2001)
- Slammin’ Tar: A Novel (1998)
- Sleep On, Beloved (1995)
- Caribana (1995)
- No Man in the House (1991)
- Distorted Mirror: Canada’s Racist Face (1991)