David Mcneil
Biographic Data
| ID | 247848 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Mcneil |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcneil |
| SIGNATURE | MCNEIL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5524-3075 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Roundtable: Methods, Identifications, and the Relationship between the Personal and the Scholarly in the Global Intellectual History of Social Movements
This special issue originated in a 2021 workshop, held online during the 2021 Covid-19 pandemic. The scholars and thinkers who joined us brought not only thrilling ideas but also generosity and col
What Do They Know of Canada Who Only Canada Know? An Immigrant’s Guide to Multiculturalism and Shy Elitism
This article examines how multiculturalism has overflowed from its governmental and policy articulations into Canadian society and culture more broadly. In doing so, it brings together three fields of research that are often separated and disarticulated from each other. Firstly, it draws on oft-overlooked archival material from agencies, departments and ministries of anti-racism, heritage, human rights, immigration, labour, multiculturalism, race…
Multicultural Snake Oil” and Black Cultural Criticism
This article presents a wide-ranging and reflective dialogue between Daniel McNeil and Chris Russill on the ideological, institutional, and cultural dimensions of multiculturalism in Canada, particularly as they intersect with Black cultural criticism. McNeil critiques the banal and bureaucratic deployment of multiculturalism as a state strategy and media discourse, characterising it as “multicultural snake oil”—a symbolic and ideological product…
Even Canadians Find It a Bit Boring: A Report on the Banality of Multiculturalism
Background: This article draws on municipal, provincial, and federal archives to examine multiculturalism as an ideology, a government strategy, and a media discourse. Analysis: The author scrutinizes official and corporate forms of multiculturalism in Canada between 1971 and 2003, and develops case studies of “tempered radicals” who worked with and within small-l liberal institutions and discourses while trying to change them. Conclusions and im…
The Diene Report on Discrimination and Racism in Japan
The Diene Report of 2005 represents an instance in which an international organization investigated Japanese official treatment of minority communities in Japan in relation to international standards, and their findings strongly supported the Ainu activists. The United Nations sent Doudou Diene, their Special Rapporteur, to Japan to look into discrimination and racism. Diene's report harshly criticized the racism that exists in Japan and suggeste…
"Are African Canadians Always and Only Marginals and Transients?" The Politics and Poetics of Fanon's Children
Robin Winks's The Blacks in Canada (1971) is advertised as the only historical survey that covers all aspects of the Black experience in Canada, from the introductioon of slavery in 1628 to the first wave of Caribbean immigration in the 1950s and 1960s. However, its depiction of African Canadians as inauthentic Blacks and aberrant Canadians has been critiqued by intellectuals such as George Elliott Clarke. This paper draws on material from the Ro…
To be middle-aged, gifted and black: Mourning Without Melancholia
Black devils, white saints and mixedrace femme fatales: Philippa Schuyler and the winds of change
This article sheds new light on abstract definitions of Afropessimism by analysing the self-fashioning of Philippa Schuyler in southern and central Africa during the Cold War. Schuyler had achieved prominence as an African-American child prodigy in the 1930s and 40s, and a peripatetic concert pianist in the 1950s, before becoming an ultra-conservative writer who opposed African decolonisation in the 1960s. Rather than relying on the tired cliché …
The rivers of Zimbabwe will run red with blood: Enoch Powell and the Post-Imperial Nostalgia of the Monday Club
In his influential account of post-colonial melancholia, Paul Gilroy suggests that contemporary reports of violence in Southern Africa reveal Britain's inability to work through its grim history of imperialism and colonialism. Gilroy's study links recent discussions of tragic Southern African themes to Enoch Powell's ‘rivers of blood’ speech in 1968. However, it does not mention Powell's critique of Britain's ‘post-imperial nostalgia’ in a speech…
Liverpool: The capital of a Black Atlantic
Van Thompson, Carlyle, Eating the Black Body: Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in African American Literature and Culture
The Bridge-Builders
Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic: Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiahs
This is the first book to place the self-fashioning of mixed-race individuals in the context of a Black Atlantic. Drawing on a wide range of sources and a diverse cast of characters – from the diaries, letters, novels and plays of femme fatales in Congo and the United States to the advertisements, dissertations, oral histories and political speeches of Black Power activists in Canada and the United Kingdom – it gives particular attention to the c…
Not even past: Barack Obama and the burden of race
Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic: Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiahs
1. New People? 2. An Individualistic Age? 3. Je suis metisse 4. I. Am. A Light Grey 5. I'm Black. Not Mixed. Not Canadian. Not African. Just Black 6. Yes, We're All Individuals! I'm Not. Conclusion
Lennox Lewis and Black Atlantic Politics: The Hard Sell
Very little has been written about Lennox Lewis, an athlete who won the Olympic gold medal for Canada in 1988 but who was widely hailed as Britain's boxing savior when he unified various world titles in 1999. This article begins to address some of the gaps in our knowledge by placing Lewis alongside intellectual debates arising from Paul Gilroy's work on a Black Atlantic. It argues that some of the major themes of Gilroy's work-nationalism, doubl…
American Demands, African Treasures, Mixed Possibilities
In the 1990s, many Americans sought to cast themselves as heroic defenders of the liberal arts by condemning Afrocentricity. This paper reveals how many such profiteers and schemers were invested in Eurocentricity, but it also critiques Molefi Asante—the man who coined the phrase ‘‘Afrocentricity’’—and points out his reliance on AfroAmericocentric norms
Collage and social theories: An examination of Bowles's ‘Medley’ prints of the 1720 South Sea Bubble
In this essay, I outline how an interdisciplinary approach might be used to illuminate a series of popular prints having to do with the South Sea Bubble or fmancial crisis in England in 1720. Entitled ‘The Bubblers [sic] Medley, or a Sketch of the Times ...’ the series contains two known prints (figures 1 and 2), produced in the Bowles's shop which, for over a century, was located at 69 St Paul's Churchyard. Although the prints purport to be ‘Mem…
The Spectacle of Protest and Punishment: Newspaper coverage of the Melksham Weavers' Riot of 1738
(2001). The Spectacle of Protest and Punishment: Newspaper coverage of the Melksham Weavers' Riot of 1738. Media History: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 71-86
Lennox Lewis and Black Atlantic Politics: The Hard Sell
Very little has been written about Lennox Lewis, an athlete who won the Olympic gold medal for Canada in 1988 but who was widely hailed as Britain's boxing savior when he unified various world titles in 1999. This article begins to address some of the gaps in our knowledge by placing Lewis alongside intellectual debates arising from Paul Gilroy's work on a Black Atlantic. It argues that some of the major themes of Gilroy's work-nationalism, doubl…
Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic: Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiahs
This is the first book to place the self-fashioning of mixed-race individuals in the context of a Black Atlantic. Drawing on a wide range of sources and a diverse cast of characters – from the diaries, letters, novels and plays of femme fatales in Congo and the United States to the advertisements, dissertations, oral histories and political speeches of Black Power activists in Canada and the United Kingdom – it gives particular attention to the c…
The rivers of Zimbabwe will run red with blood: Enoch Powell and the Post-Imperial Nostalgia of the Monday Club
In his influential account of post-colonial melancholia, Paul Gilroy suggests that contemporary reports of violence in Southern Africa reveal Britain's inability to work through its grim history of imperialism and colonialism. Gilroy's study links recent discussions of tragic Southern African themes to Enoch Powell's ‘rivers of blood’ speech in 1968. However, it does not mention Powell's critique of Britain's ‘post-imperial nostalgia’ in a speech…
The Bridge-Builders
Black devils, white saints and mixedrace femme fatales: Philippa Schuyler and the winds of change
This article sheds new light on abstract definitions of Afropessimism by analysing the self-fashioning of Philippa Schuyler in southern and central Africa during the Cold War. Schuyler had achieved prominence as an African-American child prodigy in the 1930s and 40s, and a peripatetic concert pianist in the 1950s, before becoming an ultra-conservative writer who opposed African decolonisation in the 1960s. Rather than relying on the tired cliché …
The Spectacle of Protest and Punishment: Newspaper coverage of the Melksham Weavers' Riot of 1738
(2001). The Spectacle of Protest and Punishment: Newspaper coverage of the Melksham Weavers' Riot of 1738. Media History: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 71-86
Collage and social theories: An examination of Bowles's ‘Medley’ prints of the 1720 South Sea Bubble
In this essay, I outline how an interdisciplinary approach might be used to illuminate a series of popular prints having to do with the South Sea Bubble or fmancial crisis in England in 1720. Entitled ‘The Bubblers [sic] Medley, or a Sketch of the Times ...’ the series contains two known prints (figures 1 and 2), produced in the Bowles's shop which, for over a century, was located at 69 St Paul's Churchyard. Although the prints purport to be ‘Mem…
American Demands, African Treasures, Mixed Possibilities
In the 1990s, many Americans sought to cast themselves as heroic defenders of the liberal arts by condemning Afrocentricity. This paper reveals how many such profiteers and schemers were invested in Eurocentricity, but it also critiques Molefi Asante—the man who coined the phrase ‘‘Afrocentricity’’—and points out his reliance on AfroAmericocentric norms
Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic: Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiahs
1. New People? 2. An Individualistic Age? 3. Je suis metisse 4. I. Am. A Light Grey 5. I'm Black. Not Mixed. Not Canadian. Not African. Just Black 6. Yes, We're All Individuals! I'm Not. Conclusion
Lennox Lewis and Black Atlantic Politics: The Hard Sell
Very little has been written about Lennox Lewis, an athlete who won the Olympic gold medal for Canada in 1988 but who was widely hailed as Britain's boxing savior when he unified various world titles in 1999. This article begins to address some of the gaps in our knowledge by placing Lewis alongside intellectual debates arising from Paul Gilroy's work on a Black Atlantic. It argues that some of the major themes of Gilroy's work-nationalism, doubl…
Liverpool: The capital of a Black Atlantic
Van Thompson, Carlyle, Eating the Black Body: Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in African American Literature and Culture
The Bridge-Builders
Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic: Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiahs
This is the first book to place the self-fashioning of mixed-race individuals in the context of a Black Atlantic. Drawing on a wide range of sources and a diverse cast of characters – from the diaries, letters, novels and plays of femme fatales in Congo and the United States to the advertisements, dissertations, oral histories and political speeches of Black Power activists in Canada and the United Kingdom – it gives particular attention to the c…
Not even past: Barack Obama and the burden of race
Black devils, white saints and mixedrace femme fatales: Philippa Schuyler and the winds of change
This article sheds new light on abstract definitions of Afropessimism by analysing the self-fashioning of Philippa Schuyler in southern and central Africa during the Cold War. Schuyler had achieved prominence as an African-American child prodigy in the 1930s and 40s, and a peripatetic concert pianist in the 1950s, before becoming an ultra-conservative writer who opposed African decolonisation in the 1960s. Rather than relying on the tired cliché …
The rivers of Zimbabwe will run red with blood: Enoch Powell and the Post-Imperial Nostalgia of the Monday Club
In his influential account of post-colonial melancholia, Paul Gilroy suggests that contemporary reports of violence in Southern Africa reveal Britain's inability to work through its grim history of imperialism and colonialism. Gilroy's study links recent discussions of tragic Southern African themes to Enoch Powell's ‘rivers of blood’ speech in 1968. However, it does not mention Powell's critique of Britain's ‘post-imperial nostalgia’ in a speech…
"Are African Canadians Always and Only Marginals and Transients?" The Politics and Poetics of Fanon's Children
Robin Winks's The Blacks in Canada (1971) is advertised as the only historical survey that covers all aspects of the Black experience in Canada, from the introductioon of slavery in 1628 to the first wave of Caribbean immigration in the 1950s and 1960s. However, its depiction of African Canadians as inauthentic Blacks and aberrant Canadians has been critiqued by intellectuals such as George Elliott Clarke. This paper draws on material from the Ro…
To be middle-aged, gifted and black: Mourning Without Melancholia
The Diene Report on Discrimination and Racism in Japan
The Diene Report of 2005 represents an instance in which an international organization investigated Japanese official treatment of minority communities in Japan in relation to international standards, and their findings strongly supported the Ainu activists. The United Nations sent Doudou Diene, their Special Rapporteur, to Japan to look into discrimination and racism. Diene's report harshly criticized the racism that exists in Japan and suggeste…
What Do They Know of Canada Who Only Canada Know? An Immigrant’s Guide to Multiculturalism and Shy Elitism
This article examines how multiculturalism has overflowed from its governmental and policy articulations into Canadian society and culture more broadly. In doing so, it brings together three fields of research that are often separated and disarticulated from each other. Firstly, it draws on oft-overlooked archival material from agencies, departments and ministries of anti-racism, heritage, human rights, immigration, labour, multiculturalism, race…
Multicultural Snake Oil” and Black Cultural Criticism
This article presents a wide-ranging and reflective dialogue between Daniel McNeil and Chris Russill on the ideological, institutional, and cultural dimensions of multiculturalism in Canada, particularly as they intersect with Black cultural criticism. McNeil critiques the banal and bureaucratic deployment of multiculturalism as a state strategy and media discourse, characterising it as “multicultural snake oil”—a symbolic and ideological product…
Even Canadians Find It a Bit Boring: A Report on the Banality of Multiculturalism
Background: This article draws on municipal, provincial, and federal archives to examine multiculturalism as an ideology, a government strategy, and a media discourse. Analysis: The author scrutinizes official and corporate forms of multiculturalism in Canada between 1971 and 2003, and develops case studies of “tempered radicals” who worked with and within small-l liberal institutions and discourses while trying to change them. Conclusions and im…
Roundtable: Methods, Identifications, and the Relationship between the Personal and the Scholarly in the Global Intellectual History of Social Movements
This special issue originated in a 2021 workshop, held online during the 2021 Covid-19 pandemic. The scholars and thinkers who joined us brought not only thrilling ideas but also generosity and col
Sociology (15 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Law (10 works) · History (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Art (5 works)