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Black Like Who? is Rinaldo Walcott's first book. It was published in 1997 by Insomniac Press in Toronto.
This book came out of Walcott's PhD research which focused on rap music and culture. The essays in Black Like Who? demonstrate Walcott's expanded interest concerning the theorizing of Black Canada more generally. The titles of essays included in this compilation will indicate the breadth of Walcott's scholarly engagement with themes related to the Black Canadian experiences and expressions:
Introduction: Writing Blackness After...
"Going to the North": The Limit of Black Diasporic Discourse(s)
“A Tough Geography": Towards a Poetics of Black Space(s) in Canada
The Politics of Third Cinema in Canada: Reading the Narrative of Clement Virgo's Rude
"Keep on Movin'": Rap, Black Atlantic Identities and the Problem of Nation
"No Language is Neutral": The Politics of Performativity in M. Nourbese Philip's and Dionne Brand's Poetry
Black Subjectivities: Ethnicity, Race and the Politics of Film in Canada
Scattered Speculations on Canadian Blackness; Or, Grammar for Black
Several of these essays have been published or republished in other sources.