{"product_id":"whiteout-how-canada-cancels-blackness-9781550656077","title":"Whiteout: How Canada Cancels Blackness","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWhiteout: How Canada Cancels Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e, his new and essential collection of essays, \u003cb\u003eGeorge Elliott Clarke\u003c\/b\u003e exposes the various ways in which the Canadian imagination demonizes, excludes, and oppresses Blackness. \u003cb\u003eClarke\u003c\/b\u003e's range is extraordinary: he canvasses African-Canadian writers who have tracked Black invisibility, highlights the racist bias of our true crime writing, reveals the whitewashing of African-Canadian perspectives in universities, and excoriates the political failure to reckon with the tragedy of Africville, the once-thriving, \"Africadian\" community whose last home was razed in 1970. For \u003cb\u003eClarke\u003c\/b\u003e, Canada's relentless celebration of itself as a site of \"multicultural humanitarianism\" has blinded White leaders and citizens to the country's many crimes, at home and abroad, thus blacking out the historical record. These essays yield an alternate history of Canada, a corrective revision that \u003cb\u003eClarke\u003c\/b\u003e describes as \"inking words on snow, evanescent and ephemeral.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoet, novelist, playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and critic \u003cb\u003eGeorge Elliott Clarke\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, and grew up in Halifax. His acclaimed verse-novel \u003ci\u003eWhylah Falls\u003c\/i\u003e (1990), adapted for radio and stage, has been published in Chinese, while \u003ci\u003eExecution Poems \u003c\/i\u003e(2001) won the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry. The foremost scholar of African-Canadian literature, Clarke authored the foundational volumes, \u003ci\u003e Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature \u003c\/i\u003e(2002) and \u003ci\u003eDirections Home: Approaches to African-Canadian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (2012).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vehicule Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525867999506,"sku":"9781550656077","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dc35ea0c-159b-458c-87ef-d7d0bee8219b.jpg?v=1731245814","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/whiteout-how-canada-cancels-blackness-9781550656077","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}