Performing Postracialism : : Reflections on Antiblackness, Nation, and Education Through Contemporary Blackface in Canada.

• Author: Howard, Philip S. S.
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press,, 2023.; Ã2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (261 pages)

Performing Postracialism provides an in-depth investigation of contemporary blackface incidents in Canada and its educational institutions.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Genesis and Intentions -- Part One: Blackface in the Context of the Canadian Settler-Colonial Nation State -- 1 Contemporary Blackface in Canada as Performance of Antiblackness -- 2 What's the Joke? The Black Body as White Pleasure in Canadian Blackface -- 3 Defending Blackface: Performing the "Progressive," Postracialist Canadian -- 4 Pornotroping Performances: Overt Violence, Un/Gendering, and Sex in Contemporary Blackface -- Part Two: Blackface in Education Contexts in Canada -- 5 Blackface at University: The Antiblack Logics of Canadian Academia -- 6 "Making Them Better Leaders": The Pedagogical Imperative, Institutional Priorities, and the Attenuation of Black Anger -- 7 Learning to Get Along at School, or Antiblack Postracialism through Multicultural Education -- 8 The Costs of Belonging for International Students -- 9 Fugitive Learning: Countering Postracialism and Making Black Life at University -- References -- Index.