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Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal
Fear of a Black Nation Race Sex and Security in Sixties Montreal Author:David Austin Briefly, during the 1968 Congress of Black Writers, Montreal became the epicentre of Black Power. Prominent Black Power and Black left political figures in Canada, the US, and the Caribbean converged on the city?including many of the leading spokespersons and activists of the time: Stokely Carmichael, James Forman, Harry Edwards?along with such ... more »notable Caribbean politicos as C.L.R. James, Richard B. Moore, Walter Rodney, and Robert Hill.
This historical moment radically challenged conceptions of race, emphatically announcing that Black people were part of the socialfabric. And it signaled to the Canadian state that the stage had been set for the country to become an important site of radical Black and Caribbean transnational political activity. By examining the interrelated dynamics of gender, class, sex, and security, David Austin provides a significant insight into the persistence of race and racism, and recreates a fascinating and little-known period of Canada?s history.« less