{"id":29657,"date":"2013-03-18T17:33:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T17:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29657"},"modified":"2013-03-18T17:33:26","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T17:33:26","slug":"power-post-racial-canada-still-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29657","title":{"rendered":"POWER: Post-racial Canada still a dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

POWER: Post-racial Canada still a dream<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Chronicle Herald<\/a>
\nHalifax, Nova Scotia
\n2013-03-17<\/p>\n

Megan Power<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

And we\u2019re reluctant to face it, says Hill<\/em><\/p>\n

Calling Canada a multicultural paradise is simply delusional, says author Lawrence Hill<\/a>.
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\nHe made his comments prior to a public reading in Halifax<\/a> last week, in which he was candid and forthright about the state of race relations in Canada. He doesn\u2019t agree with Toronto Life<\/em> magazine\u2019s high-profile March cover story<\/a>\u2014the feature describes his book Black Berry, Sweet Juice<\/a><\/em> as \u201cquaint\u201d\u2014which proclaims Toronto<\/a> the first post-racial city and declaring the end of single ethnicity status in the country\u2019s megalopolis<\/a>.
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\n\u201cI detest that idea. I find it quite repulsive.<\/strong> \u2026 It\u2019s just not true. Ask a thousand black students in high schools across Canada if they\u2019ve escaped the challenges of race and I\u2019m pretty sure that 995 of them will tell you absolutely not. I feel that it\u2019s kind of self-serving and self-congratulatory to talk about a post-racial world.
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\n\u201cI\u2019m not talking about myself. I\u2019ve had a very fortunate life. But I\u2019m not convinced that many black kids in society today are living in a post-racial world. Acting as if Toronto is some nirvana and everybody is happy and mixed, I think, is a slide into la la land.<\/strong>\u201d…<\/p>\n

…Hill was in town to give two readings at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21<\/a>. The morning session featured a reading from Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada<\/em>, his 2001 non-fiction book about racial identity. The afternoon session featured his blockbuster, prize-winning novel The Book of Negroes<\/em> (2008)….<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

POWER: Post-racial Canada still a dream The Chronicle Herald Halifax, Nova Scotia 2013-03-17 Megan Power And we\u2019re reluctant to face it, says Hill Calling Canada a multicultural paradise is simply delusional, says author Lawrence Hill. \u00a0 He made his comments prior to a public reading in Halifax last week, in which he was candid and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,8,394],"tags":[14080,1568,14081,14079,2372,13656],"class_list":["post-29657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-chronicle-herald","tag-lawrence-hill","tag-megan-power","tag-the-chronicle-herald","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}