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2018 Fine Arts Speaker Series

A guide to resources about individual speakers, their work and what influences their practice.

Globalization

Globalization: a Very Short Introduction
Call Number: JZ 1318 S74 2013 (3rd floor)
There is also a 2009 edition

Cargo Cult

Hybridity

Hybridity (Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences)
useful for history and definition

Postcolonialism: A very short introduction
Call Number: JV 51 Y684 2003 (1st floor Reserves)
See chapter 4 on hybridity
Hybridity and Its Discontents: Politics, Science, Culture
Call Number: [Online Resource]
Hybridity and its Discontents explores the history and experience of 'hybridity' - the mixing of peoples and cultures - in North and South America, Latin America, Britain and Ireland, South Africa, Asia and the Pacific. .....

Asega, Salome et al. "Cultural Appropriation: A Roundtable." Artforum International, Summer2017, pp. 266-277. Available in print at Langara Library
Artists talk about appropriation in context of representation, appropriation and power....

Immigration and Identity

The Multiculturalism Question: Debating Identity in 21st Century Canada
Rethinking the Great White North: race, nature, and the historical geographies of whiteness in Canada
Call Number: FC 104 R46 2011 (2nd floor)
Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing invisibility
Call Number: FC 106 F4 F54 2012 (2nd floor)

Tricksters and Clowns

Clowns and Tricksters
Call Number: GR 524 C48 1998 (1st floor Reference)

Clowns and Tricksters - Articles in Art Full Text