Identity construction of Black Canadian youth in multicultural settings.
Published: 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 125
ISBN-13: 9780494214183
Subjects: Youth, Black -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Social conditions.; Youth, Black -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Attitudes.; Pluralism (Social sciences) -- Ontario -- Toronto.; Identity (Psychology) in youth -- Ontario -- Toronto.
Description: The question of what does it mean to be black in Canada has been approached from many different perspectives. In this thesis, I explore several different narratives of blackness in light of narratives of authenticity for black youth, narratives of acceptable blackness, and nation-building discourses in the institutions of media and education. I interview four youth who have participated in race-based cultural groups. I contend that these groups offer particular narratives of blackness that resist the limits placed on black identities by current stereotypes that are continually referenced in popular culture and nation-building discourses. Using an antiracist framework informed by critical race studies and diasporic perspectives of identity, I examine the ways in which the discourses the respondents access in the interviews challenge, confirm or resist the nation-building discourses within media and education and the stereotypes of blackness circulated via popular culture.
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-03, page: 1303.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2006.

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