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Thinking While Black

Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation

This uniquely interdisciplinary study of Black cultural critics Armond White and Paul Gilroy spans continents and decades of rebellion and revolution. Drawing on an eclectic mix of archival … 222 View
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Introduction

From: The Tangled Garden

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An introduction to the book’s scope and sequence, laying out why Canada’s major media (television networks, newspapers, film industry are suddenly at risk as a result of the advent of … 11 $1.10 Add
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Preface

From: Thinking While Black

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In this preface chapter the author detailed their own acedmic career in Canada, intentions for the book and exploring the rebel nation of the 1960s and 1970s. 9 $0.90 Add
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Roots of Canadian Cultural Policies

From: Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

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Brief history of Canadian cultural policy in the 20th century, background to the period from 1984 to 2019. 18 $1.80 Add
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Theories in Motion

Mapping the Roots and Routes of a Rebel Generation

From: Thinking While Black

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In this chapter the author introduced the work of Paul Gilroy, a British scholar of global African American Studies and Armond White, an American music and film critic. 18 $1.80 Add
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Black and British

A Lived Contradiction

From: Thinking While Black

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This chapter detailed Paul Gilroy’s life after 1968 and his interest in the rebel spirit of black American and Caribbean musicians. Topics include British immigration policy, political … 32 $3.20 Add
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Global Free Trade – From Goods to Services

From: Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

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Trade agreements and the development of global trade through the second half of the 20th century. Analyzes how global trade agreements in that period affected Canada’s culture industry, … 15 $1.50 Add
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A Movie-Struck Kid From Detroit

Going Deeper into Movies

From: Thinking While Black

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In this chapter the author examined the revolutionary ideas and culture of 1960’s Detroit through Armond White’s reviews of various media (film, theatre, music, and literature) … 20 $2.00 Add
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Expanding the Garden

The Mulroney Years

From: The Tangled Garden

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A first‑hand account of the development of Canadian culture policy by the Brian Mulroney’s Conservative government (1984 to 1993). Focuses specifically on initiatives by former … 38 $3.80 Add
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"Free Trade" Limits Cultural Policymaking

From: Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

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Focuses on how free trade agreements impacted Canadian cultural policy. Deals with the 1984 free trade deal, NAFTA, as well as how World Trade Organization agreements (WTO) have limited … 31 $3.10 Add
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Slave-Descendants, Diaspora Subjects, and World Citizens

Paul Gilroy’s Historical Sensibility

From: Thinking While Black

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In this chapter the author further examines Paul Gilroy’s work and his contributions to cultural criticism and black academia. The topics explored in this chapter included, <Young Soul … 20 $2.00 Add
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Watering the Garden

The Chretien Years

From: The Tangled Garden

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A first‑hand account of the development of Canadian culture policy by the Brian Mulroney Conservative government (1984 to 1993). Focuses specifically on initiatives by former communications … 16 $1.60 Add
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Enlarging the American Cinema

Armond White vs. the Straight Middle-Class White World (and the Black Bourgeoisie)

From: Thinking While Black

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In this chapter the author examines Armond White’s wildly overlooked film criticism of the 1980’s and 1990’s to shed light on his contributions to resistance aesthetics and film … 44 $4.40 Add
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Expansion of Free Trade and Investment Agreements

From: Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

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How recent expansion of Canada’s free trade agreements and the implementation of investment agreements have affected Canadian cultural policy. Deals with the Multilateral Agreement on … 15 $1.50 Add
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Global Cultural Diversity Movement and the UNESCO Convention

From: Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

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Describes the pushback to trade agreement impacts on culture internationally, and describes the creation of the UNESCO Convention (1970) and assesses the impact it has had on Canadian and global … 19 $1.90 Add
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Middle-Aged, Gifted and Black

Structures of Feeling in the Black Atlantic

From: Thinking While Black

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In this chapter the author connects Armond White’s film criticism in the New York Press and Paul Gilroy’s academic career at Goldsmiths College in London between the years of 1997 to … 23 $2.30 Add