Download or read book Blackness and Modernity written by Cecil Foster and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2007-05-28 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Blackness and Modernity Foster traces the main philosophical, anthropological, sociological, and mythological arguments that support views of modernity as a failed quest for whiteness. He outlines how these views were implemented as part of a "world history" and shows how Canada became the first country to officially reject this approach by adopting multiculturalism.