Toward An Anti Racist Poetics

Author : Wayde Compton
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781772127430

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Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics by Wayde Compton Pdf

Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics seeks to dislodge the often unspoken white universalism that underpins literary production and reception today. In this personal and thoughtful book, award-winning author Wayde Compton explores how we might collectively develop a poetic approach that makes space for diversity by doing away with universalism in both lyric and avant-garde verse. Poignant and contemporary examples reveal how white authors often forget that their whiteness is a racial position. In the propulsive push to experiment with form, they essentially fail to see themselves as "white artists." Noting that he has never felt that his subjectivity was universal, Compton advocates for the importance of understanding your own history and positionality, and for letting go of the idea of a common aesthetic. Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics offers validation for poets of colour who do not work in dominant western forms, and is for all writers seeking to engage in anti-racist work.

Author : Meredith Lordan
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood Pub.
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122846152

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The Poetics of Anti-racism by Meredith Lordan Pdf

Exposing the linguistic racism that permeates vocabulary about race and equity, this book addresses the importance of unseating the sometimes unrecognized racism of everyday Language. The Contributors discuss the potential of words to prompt a real change in discourse--and then in the world--and call for a rethinking of racist Language that is vital for anti-racist work.

Author : Agnes Miranda Calliste,George Jerry Sefa Dei,Margarida Aguiar
Publisher : Brunswick Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1552660303

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Power, Knowledge and Anti-racism Education by Agnes Miranda Calliste,George Jerry Sefa Dei,Margarida Aguiar Pdf

This book addresses questions of antiracism and its connections with difference in a variety of educational settings and schooling practices by focusing on systems, structures, relations of domination, and the racist, classist, and sexist constructions of reality that serve as dominant paradigms for viewing and interpreting lives and historical realities.

Author : Nuzhat Amin,George Jerry Sefa Dei,Meredith Lordan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1552663353

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The Poetics of Anti-racism by Nuzhat Amin,George Jerry Sefa Dei,Meredith Lordan Pdf

Author : Wayde Compton
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1551520656

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49th Parallel Psalm by Wayde Compton Pdf

Wayde Compton's first poetry book: a stunning set of poems documenting the migration of Blacks to Canada, specifically when the first Black settlers-facing an increasingly hostile racist government-left San Francisco and travelled north to British Columbia beginning in 1858. With recurring themes of the unknowable, the crossroads, the trickster, and entropy, 49th Parallel Psalm jumbles history, time, and the Canadian black literary canon. Shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

Author : Agnes Miranda Calliste,George Jerry Sefa Dei,Margarida Aguiar
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015055825775

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Anti-racist Feminism by Agnes Miranda Calliste,George Jerry Sefa Dei,Margarida Aguiar Pdf

This collection adds to our understanding and critical engagement of how gendered and racially minoritized bodies can and do negotiate their identities and politics across several historical domains and contemporary spheres.

Author : Elizabeth Anne McGibbon,Josephine B. Etowa
Publisher : Canadian Scholars Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Discrimination in medical care
ISBN : 1551303558

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Anti-racist Health Care Practice by Elizabeth Anne McGibbon,Josephine B. Etowa Pdf

Building on an everyday clinical practice perspective, the authors provide clear and detailed definitions of concepts and terms related to racism and health. Filled with examples of racism in the health care system and strategies to examine and contest racism, this book will become an essential resource for students and practitioners in the health sciences, the sociology of health, and a variety of other disciplines which investigate racism.

Author : Enakshi Dua,Angela Robertson
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0889612307

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Scratching the Surface by Enakshi Dua,Angela Robertson Pdf

This book brings together 14 anti-racist feminists who examine ways in which race and gender interact to shape the lives of women of colour in Canada. This collection of articles covers a broad range of topics such as the impact of colonialism and its associated discourses on First Nations and other groups of colonised women; racism in the Canadian labour movement; the impact of globalisation on women of colour; the ways in which the institution of the nuclear family shapes racism; sexism in communities of colour; and the ways in which the women's movement can create an anti-racist praxis. The book not only provides exciting new insights into how women of colour experience Canadian society, but also provides instructors with a textbook that integrates anti-racist and feminist approaches.

Author : Sarah Dowling
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781609386061

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Translingual Poetics by Sarah Dowling Pdf

Since the 1980s, poets in Canada and the U.S. have increasingly turned away from the use of English, bringing multiple languages into dialogue—and into conflict—in their work. This growing but under-studied body of writing differs from previous forms of multilingual poetry. While modernist poets offered multilingual displays of literary refinement, contemporary translingual poetries speak to and are informed by feminist, anti-racist, immigrant rights, and Indigenous sovereignty movements. Although some translingual poems have entered Chicanx, Latinx, Asian American, and Indigenous literary canons, translingual poetry has not yet been studied as a cohesive body of writing. The first book-length study on the subject, Translingual Poetics argues for an urgent rethinking of Canada and the U.S.’s multiculturalist myths. Dowling demonstrates that rising multilingualism in both countries is understood as new and as an effect of cultural shifts toward multiculturalism and globalization. This view conceals the continent’s original Indigenous multilingualism and the ongoing violence of its dismantling. It also naturalizes English as traditional, proper, and, ironically, native. Reading a range of poets whose work contests this “settler monolingualism”—Jordan Abel, Layli Long Soldier, Myung Mi Kim, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, M. NourbeSe Philip, Rachel Zolf, Cecilia Vicuña, and others—Dowling argues that translingual poetry documents the flexible forms of racialization innovated by North American settler colonialisms. Combining deft close readings of poetry with innovative analyses of media, film, and government documents, Dowling shows that translingual poetry’s avoidance of authentic, personal speech reveals the differential forms of personhood and non-personhood imposed upon the settler, the native, and the alien.

Author : Himani Bannerji
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1995-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780889612082

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Thinking Through by Himani Bannerji Pdf

Thinking Through brings together new and recent writing by Himani Bannerji. Through anti-racist, Marxist feminism, Bannerji questions the notion of distinct/separate oppressions which understands gender, race and class as separate issues. Incisive and important, Thinking Through offers a new strategy to theorizing gender, race, class and socialist revolution.

Author : Wayde Compton
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551525730

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The Outer Harbour by Wayde Compton Pdf

Wayde Compton's debut story collection is imbued with the color of speculative fiction; one strand of stories follows the emergence of a volcanic island, which alternatively becomes the site of a radical Native peoples' occupation, a real-estate development, and finally a detention center for illegal immigrants. Moving from 2001 through to 2025, The Outer Harbour is at once a history book and a cautionary tale of the future, condensing and confounding our preconceived ideas around race, migration, gentrification, and home. Wayde Compton is the author of three poetry collections. He is director of the Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.

Author : Wayde Compton
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781551523873

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After Canaan by Wayde Compton Pdf

"Compton pushes us to look beneath the surface—past those comforting tales of nationhood and racial solidarity—to the more nebulous and ever-shifting truth. This is a brilliant and original work that should be mandatory reading for any student of race and history."—Danzy Senna, author of Caucasia After Canaan, the first nonfiction book by acclaimed African Canadian poet Wayde Compton, repositions the North American discussion of race in the wake of the tumultuous twentieth century. Written from the perspective of someone who was born and lives outside of African American culture, it riffs on the concept of Canada as a promised land (or "Canaan") encoded in African American myth and song since the days of slavery. These varied essays, steeped in a kind of history rarely written about, explore the language of racial misrecognition (also known as "passing"), the failure of urban renewal, humor as a counterweight to "official" multiculturalism, the poetics of hip hop turntablism, and the impact of the Obama phenomenon on the way we speak about race itself. Compton marks the passing of old modes of antiracism and multiculturalism, and points toward what may or may not be a "post-racial" future, but will without doubt be a brave new world of cultural perception. After Canaan is a brilliant and thoughtful consideration of African (North) American culture as it attempts to redefine itself in the Obama era.

Author : Ruth Jennison,Julian Murphet
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030171568

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Communism and Poetry by Ruth Jennison,Julian Murphet Pdf

Communism and Poetry: Writing Against Capital addresses the relationship between an upsurge in collective political practice around the world since 2000, and the crystallization of newly engaged forms of poetry. Considering an array of perspectives—poets, poet-critics, activists and theorists—these essays shed new light on the active interface between emancipatory political thought and poetic production and explore how poetry and the new communism are creating mutually innovative forms of thought and activity, supercharging the utopian imagination. Drawing inspiration from past connections between communism and poetry, and theorizing new directions over the years ahead, the volume models a much-needed critical solidarity with creative strategies in the present conjuncture to activate movements of resistance, on the streets and in verse.

Author : Felicia Rose Chavez
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781642593877

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The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop by Felicia Rose Chavez Pdf

The Antiracist Writing Workshop is a call to create healthy, sustainable, and empowering artistic communities for a new millennium of writers. Inspired by June Jordan 's 1995 Poetry for the People, here is a blueprint for a 21st-century workshop model that protects and platforms writers of color. Instead of earmarking dusty anthologies, imagine workshop participants Skyping with contemporary writers of difference. Instead of tolerating bigoted criticism, imagine workshop participants moderating their own feedback sessions. Instead of yielding to the red-penned judgement of instructors, imagine workshop participants citing their own text in dialogue. The Antiracist Writing Workshop is essential reading for anyone looking to revolutionize the old workshop model into an enlightened, democratic counterculture.

Author : Zahi Zalloua
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350094208

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Žižek on Race by Zahi Zalloua Pdf

Slavoj Žižek's prolific comments on anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, scapegoating, popular nationalism, the refugee crisis, Eurocentrism, the War on Terror, neocolonialism, global justice, and rioting comprise a dizzying array of thinking. But what can we pull out of his various writings and commentaries on race in the contemporary world? Is there anything approaching a Žižekian philosophy of race? Zahi Zalloua argues here that there is and that the often polemical style of Žižek's pronouncements shouldn't undermine the importance and urgency of his work in this area. Zalloua not only examines Žižek's philosophy of race but addresses the misconceptions that have arisen and some of the perceived shortcomings in his work to date. Žižek on Race also puts Žižek in dialogue with critical race and anti-colonial studies, dwelling on the sparks struck up by this dialogue and the differences, gaps, and absences it points up. Engaging Žižek's singular contribution to the analysis of race and racism, Žižek on Race both patiently interrogates and critically extends his direct comments on the topic, developing more fully the potential of his thought. In a response to the book, Žižek boldly reaffirms his theoretical stance, clarifying further his often difficult-to-work-out positions on some of his more controversial pronouncements.