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{{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 [[Rapping|rap]] music in the early 1990s was emerging as an important social and political force across North America".<ref name="research.utoronto.ca">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.</ref> 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.<ref name="research.utoronto.ca"/>

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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=4 October 2019 |title=Affiliated Faculty |url=https://www.cinema.utoronto.ca/people/directories/affiliated-faculty}}</ref> Walcott was formerly an assistant professor at [[York University]].<ref>Walcott, R. (2000), "At The Full and Change of Canlit: An Interview with Dionne Brand", ''Canadian Women’s Studies'', 20, 2, pp. 22–26.</ref> From 2002 to 2007, he was the [[Canada Research Chair]] of Social Justice and Cultural Studies.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SJE :: Social Justice Education at OISE |url=http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/depts/sese/rinaldowalcott.html}}</ref>

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."<ref>''On Property'' (Biblioasis, 2021); 'Toronto Star'', 6 Feb. 2021; and Library of Congress Authorities file.''</ref>

He is out as [[queer]].<ref>[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.</ref>

== 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)

== References ==
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Rinaldo Walcott - Revision history

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