Josh Crooks is a promising teen hockey star in a sport where Black Canadian players like him are chronically underrepresented. Ice Breakers (2020) reveals the buried history of a pioneering Black hockey league in Atlantic Canada, as Crooks discovers that his unshakable passion is tied to a rich and remarkable heritage.

Black Canadians have lived in Canada for 400 years and 20 generations from the arrival of Mathieu Da Costa in the early 17th century and Black Empire Loyalists through the Underground Railroad to the modern immigration waves from the global south.

But in a Canada where racial disparities, anti-Black racism and systemic discrimination are so entrenched, what does it mean to be Black in Canada today? What is the Black Canadian experience?

The assignment is connected to the assigned readings (key theories, concepts, and examples), and the student is to provide credible citations and references in APA format to support the discussion in the assignment.

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Apply and describe the sociological imaginationand one only of the foursociological perspectives are: functionalism, conflict, symbolic interactionism and feminism to examine and discuss Josh's experiences as a hockey player. Do not apply and describe four sociological perspectives.

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