Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Prologue xi
5. Part One
6. Blackness and the Quest for Freedom
7. Introduction 5
8. Blackness: Method, Differences, Perspective 27
9. Meaning, Understanding, and Knowing 38
10. Common Sense Blackness 69
11. Theoretical Frameworks
12. Blackness and Goodness 87
13. Ideology That Privileges the Somatic 114
14. Phenomenology, History, and Paradigms 139
15. Blackness and Speculative Philosophy 164
16. Blackness: Quest for Whiteness in Western Thought
17. Greek Mythologies and Philosophies 203
18. The Cunning of Blackness 214
19. Blackness 248
20. Slavery and Death 277
21. Ethno-Racial Bondage 305
22. Part Two
23. Canadian Blackness and Identity
24. Multiculturalism and Blackness 329
25. Promises of Multiculturalism 360
26. Blackness 393
27. Neo-Mythic Multiculturalism 414
28. Blackness: Social and Political in Canada 430
29. New Ideals of Canadian Blackness 447
30. Black Canada – Reconciliation? 478
31. Notes 505
32. Index 597