ENGLISH 2C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Scotiabank Giller Prize
8 Jun 2017
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Length of answer-> what you can write neatly in 45 minutes. There will be 6 questions and you pick two too talk about. There will be an hour afterwards for exam prep questions. His dad was african and his mom was white. His parents had to flee where they lived in order to be together. Hill doesn"t like the word race-> hates the grouping of people. He choses not to engage with the topic of race because once you start thinking about race as a topic then you can become judgmental and racist. He asked family and friends for their information on their pov"s. He lived in canada, toronto now in hamilton. Focuses on mixed race people living in america. What it means to be stuck between two communities. Searching and trying to prove their identity to themselves and the public. Quite active in the political scene and at mcmaster.
