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

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Introduction: Genesis and Intentions Part I: 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 II: 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

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      Publisher University of Toronto Press
      Published 8 February 2023
      ISBN-13 9781487525293
      978-1487525293
      ISBN-10 148752529X
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      Description

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

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Genesis and Intentions Part I: 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 II: 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

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