Identity and belonging : rethinking race and ethnicity in Canadian society
Canadian Society is rapidly evolving. By 2017, persons belonging to a visible minority group will comprise 20 percent of the population. In Canada's major cities, the proportion of persons classified as visible minority is expected to exceed 50 percent. Canada is a country that is not very sure of its own identity. Many of our citizens do not know where they fit in the national fabric. As ethno-racial diversity increases, so will our uncertainty of our identity and role in the development of our nation. While Canada has always been culturally diverse, the continuing ethno-racial diversification will exercise a profound influence on Canadian culture, as well as on Canadian political and social institutions. As the ethno-racial composition becomes more complex, critical understandings of race, ethnicity, identity, and belonging are increasingly important goals for social justice, fairness, and inclusion. Provocative and ground-breaking, Identity and Belonging addresses these concerns, poses some essential questions about the nature of race and ethnicity, how they differ from one another, and how they might differ from other markers of identity, such as class, gender, or nationality."--Publisher description
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9781551303123, 9781551308531, 1551303124, 1551308533
1071909166
Introduction : identities without guarantees
Ch. 1. Representations of the other / Robert Miles and Malcolm Brown
Ch. 2. The social construction of primordial identities / Anton Allahar
Ch. 3. Race, ethnicity, and cultural identity / Carl E. James
Ch. 4. Postmodern race and gender essentialism or a post-mortem of scholarship / Radha Jhappan
Ch. 5. The origins of national consciousness / Benedict Anderson
Ch. 6. Re-membering and forgetting / Ron Eyerman
Ch. 7. The racial state / Michael Omi and Howard Winant
Ch. 8. Identity, belonging, and the critique of pure sameness / Paul Gilroy
Ch. 9. Optional ethnicities : for whites only? / Mary C. Waters
Ch. 10. Between black and white : exploring the "biracial" experience / Kerry Ann Rockquemore
Ch. 11. Interrogating the hyphen-nation : Canadian multicultural policy and "mixed race" identities / Minelle Mahtani
Ch. 12. Formation of ethnic and racial identities : narratives by young Asian-American professionals / Pyong Gap Min and Rose Kim
Ch. 13. Immigration, multiculturalism, and citizenship : the development of the Canadian social justice infrastructure / Charles S. Ungerleider
Ch. 14. "Canadian" as an ethnic category : implications for multiculturalism and national unity / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
Ch. 15. From redistribution to recognition? : dilemmas of justice in a "post-socialist" age / Nancy Fraser
Ch. 16. The future of identity / Stuart Hall
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