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DESCRIPTION:Join MISC at 4:00 pm on Monday\, February 2ndth at the Faculty 
 Club (3450 McTavish Street) for a lecture by Cecil Foster\, Determining ne
 w international and domestic orders: reflections on Modern Canada's endura
 nce and more so resilience as Black and West Indian.\n\nThe enduring domin
 ant narrative of Canada is of a social ideal produced by two founding peop
 les of Western European ancestry. Even as Canada demographically appears m
 ost multicultural than ever\, the dominance of this narrative presupposes 
 that essentially Canada was and always should be a white man's country\, w
 hether organically Anglo\, Franco or a combination of both. It is this whi
 teness that supposedly provides Canada its social resilience.\n\nDr. Foste
 r will offer the counter argument that from even its earliest days as a se
 ttler colony\, Canada was inherently Black and that to this day its social
  justice model of development based on ideals of diversity\, equity and in
 clusiveness reflects Canada's undeniable historical\, cultural and Black B
 ritish West Indian heritage. This is an identity that dominant Canada alwa
 ys tried to deny in preference for a whiteness imposed through structural 
 and institutional conformity and cooption. Ironically\, recognition of thi
 s identity is at the heart of Canada's Official Multiculturalism that save
 d the Canadian Confederation. And it could save Canada again. It is this s
 ame quest for a social order grounded in Blackness and the search for endu
 ring freedom that could set Canada apart as a truly modern country in this
  moment of disruptions of established orders and systems domestically\, bu
 t particularly elsewhere in the Americas and the rest of the world.\n\nThe
  lecture will be followed by a Q&A and reception. This event is free and o
 pen to public\; registration is required via Eventbrite.\n\nCecil Foster i
 s a leading author\, academic\, journalist and public intellectual. His wo
 rk speaks about the challenges that Black people have encountered historic
 ally in Canada in their efforts to achieve respect and recognition for the
 ir contribution to what is now a multicultural Canada. He highlights their
  fight for social justice and human dignity. In particular\, Foster addres
 ses the issues of immigration in his critical discussions on who is a Cana
 dian in the ever-evolving social narrative toward a genuine multicultural 
 Canada. Dr. Foster is a professor in the Department of Africana and Americ
 an Studies at the University at Buffalo\, State University of Buffalo.\n
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LOCATION:Faculty Club\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0E5\, 3450 rue McTavish
SUMMARY:Determining new international and domestic orders: reflections on M
 odern Canada's endurance and more so resilience as Black and West Indian
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/channels/event/determining-new-internati
 onal-and-domestic-orders-reflections-modern-canadas-endurance-and-more-so-
 370357
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