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Paul Barrett

Paul Barrett is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Concordia University. and the author of Blackening Canada: Diaspora, Race, Multiculturalism.
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Arts & Culture

The Poetic Disturbances of M. NourbeSe Philip

September 21, 2018November 13, 2019 - by Paul Barrett

In her new book of essays, the Canadian poet fights the policing and restricting of black creative expression

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University of Toronto student union member Cassandra Williams poses in front of sign at the Jordan Peterson protest
Current Affairs

Why Everyone Is Wrong about the Censorship Fight at Universities

May 11, 2018November 12, 2019 - by Paul Barrett

The silencing of part-time instructors is the real free speech crisis

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Photograph by Chris Boland
Books

The Wild Rise of CanLit

October 12, 2017April 3, 2020 - by Paul Barrett

Nick Mount’s Arrival brings Canada’s 1960s literary stars to life—but overlooks the era’s diversity

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Education

The Unbearable Whiteness of CanLit

July 26, 2017January 21, 2021 - by Paul Barrett

Black writers are not marginal to our literature; they are our literature. So why aren’t they being taught?

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Books

The Myth of the Lone Genius

May 26, 2017November 11, 2019 - by Paul Barrett

In Canadian literature, community is often the only way minority voices are heard

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Illustration by Meredith Holigroski
Society

Black Pride Matters

July 7, 2016June 5, 2020 - by Paul Barrett

Canadians have a long history of ignoring anti-black racism and gaslighting those who demonstrate its existence

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Double issue: declaring your data at the border, the Group of Seven 100 years later, an Indigenous-led camp for unhoused people in Edmonton, death in the age of Facebook, and quitting America for good.

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