Rinaldo Walcott
{{short description|Canadian academic and writer who was born on September 20, 1965 in St Michael, Barbados.}}
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Rinaldo Wayne Walcott (born 1965) is a Canadian academic and writer.
Work
Walcott published Black Like Who? in 1997, coming out of research related to his PhD studies which focused on, in Walcott's own words, "questions of popular culture and exploring how rap music in the early 1990s was emerging as an important social and political force across North America".Althea Blackburn-Evans, [http://www.research.utoronto.ca/edge/fall2003/nextgen4.html "The Cultural Explorer: Rinaldo Walcott seeks new definitions of Canadian culture"], Edge, Fall 2003, Vol. 4, No. 2. The collection of essays in Black Like Who? expand this inquiry into areas such as poetry, literature, diasporic studies, film criticism and other discussions central to issues surrounding Black space, place, and landscape in Canada.
Walcott is Professor and Chair of Africana and American Studies at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo. He holds the Carl V. Granger Chair in Africana and American Studies. Previously, he was an associate professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and the director of the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. He was also affiliated with the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto.{{Cite web |date=4 October 2019 |title=Affiliated Faculty |url=https://www.cinema.utoronto.ca/people/directories/affiliated-faculty}} Walcott was formerly an assistant professor at York University.Walcott, R. (2000), "At The Full and Change of Canlit: An Interview with Dionne Brand", Canadian Women’s Studies, 20, 2, pp. 22–26. From 2002 to 2007, he was the Canada Research Chair of Social Justice and Cultural Studies.{{Cite web |title=SJE :: Social Justice Education at OISE |url=http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/depts/sese/rinaldowalcott.html}}
Walcott's work focuses on Black studies, Canadian studies, cultural studies, queer theory, gender studies, and diaspora studies.
Life
He wrote in 2021 "I was born in the Caribbean Barbados and have lived most of my life in Canada, specifically Toronto."On Property (Biblioasis, 2021); 'Toronto Star, 6 Feb. 2021; and Library of Congress Authorities file.
He is out as queer.[https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2016/07/07/pride-has-divorced-blackness-from-queerness-cole.html "Pride has divorced blackness from queerness: Cole"]. Toronto Star, July 7, 2016.
Selected publications
- 1997, Black Like Who?: Writing Black Canada (Toronto: Insomniac Press).
- 2000, Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism [editor] (Toronto: Insomniac Press).
- 2003, Black Like Who?: Writing Black Canada (Toronto: Insomniac Press). [Second Revised Edition]
- 2016, Queer Returns: Essays On Multiculturalism, Diaspora and Black Studies (Toronto: Insomniac Press).
- 2019, BlackLife: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom with Idil Abdillahi (Winnipeg: ARP Books).
- 2021, On Property (Windsor, Ontario: Biblioasis).
- 2021, The Long Emancipation: Moving toward Black Freedom (Durham, NC: Duke University Press)
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Category:Barbadian emigrants to Canada
Category:Black Canadian non-fiction writers
Category:21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers
Category:Canadian sociologists
Category:Canadian literary critics
Category:Academic staff of the University of Toronto
Category:Canada Research Chairs
Category:Black Canadian LGBTQ people
Category:Black Canadian scientists