HIST 3535 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Double Consciousness, Canadian Identity, Black Canadians
17 Sep 2018
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Race as a social construction and social organizing principle. Blackness as associated with evil, sin, wickedness, and heathen. Thinking of another place where you are from and you have this idea that you have a hyphenated identity that is what it means when we say double consciousness. Black atlantic: blackness as fluid, ever-changing, transnational, intercultural, transoceanic transactions. Race is very fluid and there is something shared across the communities. Culture has withstood violence that is part of this experience. Black absented presented: pressure of erasure and exclusion. We define canada as this moment of erasure. Use it to theorize it works in a way to assert the dominance of whiteness as a cultural norm. Builds a strong sense of national identity that is closely linked to nature and. Builds a strong sense of national identity that is closely linked to nature and wilderness. People who are absent of this story is the indigenous people.
