Black Like Who?: Writing, Black, Canada; Author: Walcott, Rinaldo; Hardback; Book

Author: Walcott, Rinaldo
Hardback; Book
190 pages
Published: December 1997
Insomniac Press
ISBN: 1895837073
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A ground-breaking study of black culture, this major new work will remap the North American landscape.With hip-hop, film, literature, social unrest, sports and the electronic media as its focus, Black Like Who? not only assesses the role of black Canadians in building and defining Canada, it also demonstrates how Canadian blackness is conceived and lived out in ways that are radically un-American. As Canada's answer to Henry Louis Gates, Rinaldo Walcott uses everything from rap of the Dream Warriors and Maestro Fresh-Wes, the fastest-man-in-the-world debate surrounding sprinters Donovan Bailey and Michael Williams, response to the Rodney King and O.J. Simpson verdicts, explorations of the Gangsta film genre, and an analysis of Canada's role in Somalia and its treatment of im