LLED 565A 061 (Special Topic, David Lam Course in Multicultural Education)
Instructor: Dr. Annette Henry
September 3 – November 29 | Thursdays | 4:30 – 7:30 PM
Come and join us for this David Lam course offered by Professor Henry if you are interested in language, power, race, politics, Caribbean diasporic and racialized immigrant issues as well as critical race and critical multicultural analyses.
The Power of the Word: Dub Poetry as Canadian Educational Critique
This course examines the language and performance of dub poetry as a multifaceted linguistic, cultural, transgressive, radical, populist, activist art form. It depicts the realities of contemporary black lives in Canada and calls into question the very ideas of multiculturalism. This Jamaican-derived artistic form celebrates the popular language that the colonizer taught the colonized to despise. In this course, it provides analytic springboard to carry out an intersectional and critical inquiry into many problematics in everyday Canadian life that affect our educational practices, from critiques of “acceptable English” and one’s “nation language”, to economic marginalization and youth alienation.
The course will be a dialogue between theoretical scholarship the pedagogy of dub poetry. The aim of the course is to re-think educational possibilities through this critical, intersectional lens and to have fun while thinking through these ideas.