CS 413H

Beyond Multiculturalism

This course centers the register of the visual to facilitate critical conversations about race, racism, and multiculturalism in Canadian contexts. Using Black Canadian studies scholarship which draws from Black feminist and womanist, queer affirming, and anti-capitalist lenses, this course highlights the everyday realities of Black Canadian communities in the past and present. Using site-based engagements with place/space, archives, newspapers, visual art, documentary film and photography, this course critiques the extent to which Canadian multiculturalism maintains the overlapping systems of oppression that stifle Black freedom in Canada everyday.