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Black Like Who?

Writing Black Canada

By: Rinaldo Walcott

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Rinaldo Walcott's groundbreaking study of black culture in Canada, Black Like Who?, caused such an uproar upon its publication in 1997 that Insomniac Press has decided to publish a second revised edition of this perennial best-seller. With its incisive readings of hip-hop, film, literature, social unrest, sports, music and the electronic media, Walcott's book not only assesses the role of black Canadians in defining Canada, it also argues strenuously against any notion of an essentialist Canadian blackness. As erudite on the issue of American super-critic Henry Louis Gates' blindness to black Canadian realities as he is on the rap of the Dream Warriors and Maestro Fresh Wes, Walcott's essays are thought-provoking and always controversial in the best sense of the word. They have added and continue to add immeasurably to public debate.

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1897414471

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9781897414477

On Property

Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition

By: Rinaldo Walcott

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On Property

Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition

By: Rinaldo Walcott

Nominated for the Heritage Toronto Book Award • Longlisted for the Toronto Book Awards • A Globe and Mail Book of the Year • A CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2021 From plantation rebellion to prison labour's super-exploitation, Walcott examines the relationship between policing and property. That a man can lose his life for passing a fake $20 bill when we know our economies are flush with fake money says something damning about the way we’ve organized society. Yet the intensity of the calls to abolish the police after George Floyd’s death surprised almost everyone. What, exactly, does abolition mean? How did we get here? And what does property have to do with it? In On Property, Rinaldo Walcott explores the long shadow cast by slavery’s afterlife and shows how present-day abolitionists continue the work of their forebears in service of an imaginative, creative philosophy that ensures freedom and equality for all. Thoughtful, wide-ranging, compassionate, and profound, On Property makes an urgent plea for a new ethics of care.

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1771964081

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Borders, Human Itineraries, and All Our Relation

2022

By: Dele Adeyemo,Natalie Diaz,Nadia Yala Kisukidi,Rinaldo Walcott

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Borders, Human Itineraries, and All Our Relation

2022

By: Dele Adeyemo,Natalie Diaz,Nadia Yala Kisukidi,Rinaldo Walcott

Four Alchemists. One book. A constellation of ideas. In November 2022, the first annual Alchemy Lecture took place at York University in Toronto, bringing four deep and agile writers from different geographies and disciplines into vibrant conversation on a topic of urgent relevance: humans and borders. Now, in these pages, that conversation is captured and expanded in insightful, passionate ways. Architect, artist, and urban theorist Dele Adeyemo (UK/Nigeria) calls attention to the complexity of Black infrastructures, questioning how “the environments that surround us condition the possibility of our being.” Poet Natalie Diaz (US/Mojave/Akimel O’otham) writes: “Like story, migration is the sensual movement of knowledge,” and asks, “What is the language we need to live right now?” Philosopher Nadia Yala Kisukidi (France) suggests there is no diasporic life “without the dynamics of fabulation, where we pass down, from generation to generation, the stories of our ancestors who walked barefoot for many months.” And cultural theorist Rinaldo Walcott (Canada) asks us to consider inheritances beyond white supremacist logics: “What might it mean to live a life, if we can’t risk desiring and working towards utopia?” As each Alchemist considers the legacies of anti-colonial struggle, the future of the planet, and the textures of Black and Indigenous life, their essays speak to each other in multiple ways, creating something startling and revelatory: a vision of the world as it is, and as it could be.

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Alchemy by Knopf Canada

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1039009123

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9781039009127

The Long Emancipation

Moving toward Black Freedom

By: Rinaldo Walcott

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The Long Emancipation

Moving toward Black Freedom

By: Rinaldo Walcott

In The Long Emancipation Rinaldo Walcott posits that Black people globally live in the time of emancipation and that emancipation is definitely not freedom. Taking examples from across the globe, he argues that wherever Black people have been emancipated from slavery and colonization, a potential freedom has been thwarted. Walcott names this condition the long emancipation—the ongoing interdiction of potential Black freedom and the continuation of the juridical and legislative status of Black nonbeing. Stating that Black people have yet to experience freedom, Walcott shows that being Black in the world is to exist in the time of emancipation in which Black people must constantly fashion alternate conceptions of freedom and reality through expressive culture. Given that Black unfreedom lies at the center of the making of the modern world, the attainment of freedom for Black people, Walcott contends, will transform the human experience worldwide. With The Long Emancipation, Walcott offers a new humanism that begins by acknowledging that present conceptions of what it means to be human do not currently include Black people.

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Duke University Press

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1478021365

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The Long Emancipation

Moving toward Black Freedom

By: Rinaldo Walcott

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Moving toward Black Freedom

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Black Like Who?

Writing Black Canada

By: Rinaldo Walcott

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Writing Black Canada

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Insomniac Press

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On Property

Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition

By: Rinaldo Walcott

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Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition

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Rude

By: Rinaldo Walcott

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Rude

By: Rinaldo Walcott

An anthology of critical writing on Black Canadian culture.

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155483046X

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Black Life

Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom

By: Rinaldo Walcott,Idil Abdillahi

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Black Life

Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom

By: Rinaldo Walcott,Idil Abdillahi

Black Life seeks to place the activist work of Black Lives Matter Toronto in a broader context of Black Canadian activist struggles and Black struggles globally. In this work BLM's intervention into the Toronto political realm marks a dis/continuous Black Canadian activism that erupts and wanes in response to local, national and international Black protest.

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Semaphore

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192788621X

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