Cecil Foster

Cecil Foster (born September 26, 1954) is a Canadian novelist and essayist. Born in Bridgetown, Barbados, he emigrated to Canada in 1979. Currently, he lives in Rockwood, Ontario and serves as a professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Guelph. His most recent book, "Where Race Does Not Matter" (2004), explores the potential of multiculturalism in Canada. It also expands on some of his earlier work that deals with issues of race in his own life as well as in the history of Canada.

Foster completed his PhD, a phenomenological exploration of the concept of Blackness in Canada, at York University in 2003. His philosophical influences include Hegel, Marx, Alexandre Kojève, Will Kymlicka, Charles Taylor, and former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

Works

*"No Man in the House" - 1991
*"Caribana, the Greatest Celebration" - 1995
*"Sleep On, Beloved" - 1995
*"A Place Called Heaven: The Meaning of Being Black in Canada" - 1996
*"Slammin' Tar" - 1998
*"Island Wings: A Memoir" - 1998
*"Dry Bones Memories" - 2001
*"Where Race Does Not Matter: The New Spirit of Modernity" - 2004