 | Blackness and Modernity : The Colour of Humanity and the Quest for Freedom Cecil Foster was born in Barbados in 1954. He emigrated to Canada in 1978. He has been a reporter for various newspapers, including The Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail, as a transportation expert and business columnist. He has been editor of Contrast, Canada's first Black-oriented newspaper and he was also senior editor for The Financial Post. Cecil has also worked for the CBC in radio and television, and has written the expository Distorted Mirror: Canada's Racist Face, which was published in 1991. Cecil is also well known for his novels, among them No Man in the House, published in 1991, Sleep On, Beloved, published in 1995, Dry Bones Memories in 2001, Where Race Does Not Matter: The New Spirit of Modernity in 2004 and Blackness and Modernity: The Colour of Humanity and the Quest for Freedom in 2007. Foster has become one of the country's most important writers, his fiction has been popular with both critics and the public alike. (Bowker Author Biography) |
