Blackness And La Francophonie

Author : Amal Madibbo
Publisher : Presses de l'Université Laval
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16T00:00:00-04:00
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782763755786

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Blackness and la Francophonie by Amal Madibbo Pdf

This book delves into the complexity of the exclusion of multiple minority identities against the backdrop of anti-Black racism, linguistic discrimination, slavery, and colonialism and neo-colonialism, along with resilience against identity exclusion. Analyzing the construction and negotiation of Canadian, Francophone, and Black-African identities, we juxtapose inclusive identity meanings with dominant perceptions to show ways in which race, language, ethnicity, and religion shape identities in the 21st century. Drawing on the criterial tradition, critical race theory, critical multiculturalism, and critical ethnography, we engage the work of Frantz Fanon and Negritude and utilize semi-structured interviews, document collection, and content analysis to interpret identity and identification. We shed light on identity exclusion and subjectivity that fuels identity strategizing and agency, and recommend reforms, including naming Black Canadians an independent designated group, and combining multiculturalism and official bilingualism to strengthen belongingness among Blacks and other marginalized communities and to build the inclusive future that we long for.

Author : Amal Ibrahim Madibbo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135864316

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Minority Within a Minority by Amal Ibrahim Madibbo Pdf

This book examines the institutional racism and language discrimination that Black Francophones – who constitute a racial minority situated within a linguistic minority – face and identifies the strategies of resistance Black Francophones invent to gain access to power structures. The book is written to cover an area of research (Black Francophones) that is largely understudied. The book deals with the areas of immigration, race and anti-racism, gender, multiculturalism, linguistic minorities and francophone studies. It brings together multidisciplinary sociological and sociolinguistic theories and methodologies and sheds light on the discourse of institutional racism and resistance.

Author : Amal Ibrahim Madibbo
Publisher : Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Blacks
ISBN : 0612945154

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Minority Within a Minority [microform] : Black Francophones of Ontario and the Dynamics of Power and Resistance by Amal Ibrahim Madibbo Pdf

This study examines the dynamics of power and resistance within Francophone communities in Ontario/Canada. It investigates the situation of Black Francophone Africans and Haitians who constitute a racial minority situated within the official linguistic minority, in the distribution of economic and political resources that are attributed by the Canadian State to Francophones as one of its two official linguistic minorities. It also identifies various resistance strategies Black Francophones invent in order to enter power structures. An ethnographic approach conducted through qualitative methods enabled me to capture the connectedness between discourse and social action. I was also able to conceptualize how power relations are performed by examining them across the lenses of race, gender and language. This work is situated in the history of slavery and colonialism, in the migration of Africans and Haitians within Francophone space, and in the contribution of immigrants to Canadian society. My study affirms the reproduction of dominance by white Francophones towards Black Francophones. It also reveals that these Blacks endure forms of racism that other racialized groups encounter in Canada. These practices unveil connections and similarities between the State and Francophone institutions. My work stresses the contradiction represented by the existence of racism in Western societies like Canada that are guided by the liberal democracy principles. The Black Francophone struggle informs us that the Canadian project of official bilingualism, that is based on the myth of the two founding peoples and its protection for linguistic minorities, continues to support ideologies of a predominantly white national project. The vigorous activism of Black Francophones reinforces the urgency of establishing a more inclusive Francophonie within a more equitable society. Drawing on Antiracism, Black Feminism and Discourse Analysis, my thesis pinpoints the racism that Black Francophones face coming from the Canadian State and Francophone mainstream institutions. I name State racism as a factor that resolves in disrupting the economic development of the Black Francophone community. I portray specific practices that explain Francophone mainstream institutional racism. I also show that the actions and counter-hegemonic discourses taken by Black Francophones are situated in the discourse of resistance and hold specific significance in terms of the development of the Black Francophone community.

Author : Polo B. Moji
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000547689

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Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives by Polo B. Moji Pdf

This book approaches the study of AfroEurope through narrative forms produced in contemporary France, a location which richly illustrates race in European spaces. The book adopts a transdisciplinary lens that combines critical black and urban geographies, intersectional feminism, and textual analysis to explore the spatial negotiations of black women in France. It assesses literature, film, and music as narrative forms and engages with the sociocultural and political contexts from which they emerge. Through the figure of the black flâneuse and the analytical framework of "walking as method", the book goes beneath spectacular representations of ghettoised banlieues, televised protests, and shipwrecked migrants to analyse the spatiality of blackness in the everyday. It argues that the material-discursive framing of black flânerie, as both relational and embodied movements, renders visible a politics of place embedded in everyday micro-struggles of raced-sexed subjects. Foregrounding expressive modes and forms that have traditionally received little critical attention outside of the French and francophone world, this book will be relevant to academics, researchers, writers, students, activists, and readers with interests in Literary and Cultural Studies, African and Afrodiasporic Studies, Black Feminisms, Migration Studies, Critical Black Geographies, Francophone Studies, and the comparative framework of Afroeuropean Studies.

Author : Awad Ibrahim,Tamari Kitossa,Malinda S. Smith,Handel Kashope Wright
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-02
Category : Black people
ISBN : 9781487528706

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Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy by Awad Ibrahim,Tamari Kitossa,Malinda S. Smith,Handel Kashope Wright Pdf

This path-breaking collaboration by leading Black scholars examines the complexities of Black life in Canadian post-secondary education.

Author : Amal Madibbo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2763755771

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Blackness and la Francophonie by Amal Madibbo Pdf

The experiences of Black francophones in Alberta. Drawing on the qualitative analysis of numerous documents and interviews, the book explores how Black francophones hailing from sub-Saharan Africa who live in the predominantly anglophone province of Alberta construct multiple identities based on language, race, and citizenship while facing racism and multiple forms of exclusion. Blackness and la Francophonie is essential reading for scholars and informed readers interested in identity formation, anti-racism, and the politics of language.

Author : Laura Bisaillon
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774867504

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Screening Out by Laura Bisaillon Pdf

What happens when people with HIV apply to settle in Canada? Screening Out takes readers through the process of seeking permanent residency, demonstrating how mandatory HIV testing and the medical inadmissibility regime are organized to make such applications impossible. This ethnographic inquiry into the medico-legal and administrative practices governing the Canadian immigration system shows how it works from the perspective of the very people toward whom this exclusionary health policy is directed. Laura Bisaillon provides a vital corrective to state claims about mandatory HIV screening, pinpointing how and where things need to change.

Author : Huo, Xiangying,Smith, Clayton
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781668490303

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Interrogating Race and Racism in Postsecondary Language Classrooms by Huo, Xiangying,Smith, Clayton Pdf

Postsecondary language classrooms perpetuate racial discrimination and linguistic inequalities, posing a significant problem for racialized students who face institutional barriers and erasure of their linguistic identities. Interrogating Race and Racism in Postsecondary Language Classrooms, edited by Xiangying Huo and Clayton Smith, offers a transformative solution by confronting deeply ingrained racism, linguicism, and neo-racism in language education. Through an intersectional lens, the book exposes these issues and provides practical strategies to combat injustice, fostering inclusive learning environments. With topics ranging from power dynamics to anti-oppressive pedagogies, the book equips readers with tools to effect meaningful change. By amplifying marginalized voices and emphasizing anti-racist and anti-colonial practices, it empowers educators and policymakers to dismantle oppressive systems. This comprehensive resource has the potential to reshape language classrooms and create equitable educational landscapes that value diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, contributing to a more just and inclusive society.

Author : Edward M. Corbett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105083109418

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The French Presence in Black Africa by Edward M. Corbett Pdf

Author : Winfried Siemerling
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Black people in literature
ISBN : 9780773545076

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The Black Atlantic Reconsidered by Winfried Siemerling Pdf

Readers are often surprised to learn that black writing in Canada is over two centuries old. Ranging from letters, editorials, sermons, and slave narratives to contemporary novels, plays, poetry, and non-fiction, black Canadian writing represents a rich body of literary and cultural achievement. The Black Atlantic Reconsidered is the first comprehensive work to explore black Canadian literature from its beginnings to the present in the broader context of the black Atlantic world. Winfried Siemerling traces the evolution of black Canadian witnessing and writing from slave testimony in New France and the 1783 "Book of Negroes" through the work of contemporary black Canadian writers including George Elliott Clarke, Austin Clarke, Dionne Brand, David Chariandy, Wayde Compton, Esi Edugyan, Marlene NourbeSe Philip, and Lawrence Hill. Arguing that black writing in Canada is deeply imbricated in a historic transnational network, Siemerling explores the powerful presence of black Canadian history, slavery, and the Underground Railroad, and the black diaspora in the work of these authors. Individual chapters examine the literature that has emerged from Quebec, Nova Scotia, the Prairies, and British Columbia, with attention to writing in both English and French. A major survey of black writing and cultural production, The Black Atlantic Reconsidered brings into focus important works that shed light not only on Canada's literature and history, but on the transatlantic black diaspora and modernity.

Author : Trica Danielle Keaton
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822352624

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Black France / France Noire by Trica Danielle Keaton Pdf

In Black France / France Noire, scholars, activists, and novelists address the paradox of race in France: the state does not acknowledge race as a meaningful category, but experiences of antiblack racism belie claims of color-blindness.

Author : Charles Forsdick,David Murphy
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781802079340

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Postcolonial Thought in the French Speaking World by Charles Forsdick,David Murphy Pdf

In the late 1990’s, Postcolonial Studies risked imploding as a credible area of academic enquiry. Repeated anthologization and an overemphasis on the English-language literatures led to sustained critiques of the field and to an active search for alternative approaches to the globalized and transnational formations of the post-colonial world. In the early twenty-first century, however, postcolonial began to reveal a new openness to its comparative dimensions. French-language contributors to postcolonial debate (such as Edouard Glissant and Abdelkebir Khatibi) have recently risen to greater prominence in the English-speaking world, and there have also appeared an increasing number of important critical and theoretical texts on postcolonial issues, written by scholars working principally on French-language material. It is to such a context that this book responds. Acknowledging these shifts, this volume provides an essential tool for students and scholars outside French departments seeking a way into the study of Francophone colonial postcolonial debates. At the same time, it supplies scholars in French with a comprehensive overview of essential ideas and key intellectuals in this area.

Author : Maya Angela Smith
Publisher : Africa and the Diaspora: Histo
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780299320508

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Senegal Abroad by Maya Angela Smith Pdf

Explores the experiences of Senegalese in Paris, Rome, and New York as they make sense of who they are and how they fit into their local communities, the countries where they live, and the larger global Senegalese diaspora. They shape their identities through the creative ways they use multiple languages.

Author : Daniel B. Reed
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253022363

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Abidjan USA by Daniel B. Reed Pdf

“Studies of four musicians . . . and a broader discussion about diaspora and migration provides an important study of African music in the United States.” —Alex Perullo, author of Live from Dar es Salaam Daniel B. Reed integrates individual stories with the study of performance to understand the forces of diaspora and mobility in the lives of musicians, dancers, and mask performers originally from Côte d’Ivoire who now live in the United States. Through the lives of four Ivorian performers, Reed finds that dance and music, being transportable media, serve as effective ways to understand individual migrants in the world today. As members of an immigrant community who are geographically dispersed, these performers are unmoored from their place of origin and yet deeply engaged in presenting their symbolic roots to North American audiences. By looking at performance, Reed shows how translocation has led to transformations on stage, but he is also sensitive to how performance acts as a way to reinforce and maintain community. Abidjan USA provides a multifaceted view of community that is at once local, national, and international, and where identity is central, but transportable, fluid, and adaptable. “Daniel B. Reed’s scholarship is solid and his writing style is thoroughly engaging. The topic is novel; there are fascinating twists and turns throughout.” —Eric Charry, editor of Hip Hop Africa “This study’s attention to the intersection of lived experiences with wider historical events and social formations, as well as the author’s careful analysis of Ivorian ballet and the dances and drum rhythms that constitute the genre, make Abidjan USA an important intervention in ethnomusicology and folklore.” —Journal of American Folklore

Author : Edwin C. Hill
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421410593

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Black Soundscapes White Stages by Edwin C. Hill Pdf

An innovative look at the dynamic role of sound in the culture of the African Diaspora as found in poetry, film, travel narratives, and popular music. Black Soundscapes White Stages explores the role of sound in understanding the African Diaspora on both sides of the Atlantic, from the City of Light to the islands of the French Antilles. From the writings of European travelers in the seventeenth century to short-wave radio transmissions in the early twentieth century, Edwin C. Hill Jr. uses music, folk song, film, and poetry to listen for the tragic cri nègre. Building a conceptualization of black Atlantic sound inspired by Frantz Fanon's pioneering work on colonial speech and desire, Hill contends that sound constitutes a terrain of contestation, both violent and pleasurable, where colonial and anti-colonial ideas about race and gender are critically imagined, inscribed, explored, and resisted. In the process, this book explores the dreams and realizations of black diasporic mobility and separation as represented by some of its most powerful soundtexts and cultural practitioners, and it poses questions about their legacies for us today. In the process, thee dreams and realities of Black Atlantic mobility and separation as represented by some of its most powerful soundtexts and cultural practitioners, such as the poetry of Léon-Gontran Damas—a founder of the Négritude movement—and Josephine Baker’s performance in the 1935 film Princesse Tam Tam. As the first in Johns Hopkins’s new series on the African Diaspora, this book offers new insight into the legacies of these exceptional artists and their global influence.