"Who would play with me?"? Childhood Narratives of Racial Identity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6017018 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K Flynn (0000-0003-1110-078X, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2012-11-27 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Southern Journal of Canadian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2562-4563 |
| Publisher | Carleton University (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.22215/sjcs.v5i1.291 |
| OpenAlex | W2737352162 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
Organizations such as the Central Citizens Committee, National Unity Association of Dresden, and the Hour-A-Day Study Club have been critical to raising awareness and addressing racial inequality across Canada during the 1940s and 1950s. Yet, the women and men who established these organizations were also parents and guardians' raising children, yet research has seldom addressed the day-to-day existential issues of what it meant to Black children living in racist and hostile environments. This paper examines the racialization of Black children and their own understandings of racial identity growing up in Canada during the twentieth century. I explore the day-to-day experiences of, and responses to, racist practices in spaces and places - such as the school, church, and home. I argue that self-understanding and identification was formed through, and in relation to, larger questions about belonging, race and space, resistance and assimilation, which are intricately connected to how Black people are situated within the Canadian nation
Aesthetics · Club · Existentialism · Identity (music · Narrative · Political science · Race (biology · Racialization · Resistance (ecology · Situated · Sociology · White (mutation · Canadian Identity and History · Gender Studies · Law
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |