Blackness and Modernity: The Colour of Humanity and the Quest for Freedom

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

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About the Author

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)
Where Race Does Not Matter: The New Spirit of Modernity (2005)
Dry Bone Memories (2001)
Slammin’ Tar: A Novel (1998)
A Place Called Heaven: The Meaning of Being Black in Canada (1996)
Sleep On, Beloved (1995)
Caribana (1995)
No Man in the House (1991)
Distorted Mirror: Canada’s Racist Face (1991)