Richard J F Day

Multiculturalism and the History of Canadian Diversity

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Produktbeschreibung

Arguing that Canada's multicultural policies are propelled by a fantasy of unity rooted in a European drive to control diversity, Day suggests that state intervention can never bring an end to tensions related to ethnocultural relations of power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780802080752
• ISBN-10: 0802080758
• Artikelnr.: 21881343

Autorenporträt

By Richard J.F. Day

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
o The Problem of the Problem of Diversity
o Terminological Issues
2. The Field of Canadian Diversity
o Some Methodological Concerns
o Canadian Diversity in State Policy
o Canadian Diversity in Popular Culture
o Canadian Diversity and the Academy
o Identity, Identification, and the Desire for Recognition
o Nation and State, Power and Resistance
o Delimiting the Field
3. European Antecedents to the Problem of Canadian Diversity
o How Difference Changes, How It Remains the Same
o Herodotus, Father of Ethnography
o Ancient Ionian Hellenism and the Destruction of the Inferior
Other
o Incorporation of the Other in Roman Imperialism
o Early Christianity: The Missionary Urge
o Renaissance Exploration and the New World 'Savage'
o From Prehistory to History: A Summary of European Contributions
to the Problem of Canadian Diversity
4. Two 'Canadian' Solutions to the Problem of Diversity
o The First Others of the New World
o Conversion and Extermination: The Cases of the Huron and the
Iroquois
o The coureurs de bois as a Repressed Hybrid Identity
o The System of Difference in French Colonial Discourse
o How Canada Became British
o Ignorance and Extermination in the New Founde Landes
o Microcontrol and Hybridity: The Hudson's Bay Company and the
British Fur Trade
o The Early Colonial History of Canadian Diversity
5. Repetition and Failure in British North America
o The Conquest of New France
o The Emergence of the Two Founding Races
o Rational-Bureaucratic Tutelage: The Indian Problem under
British Rule
o Group Identity in British Canada
6. The Dominion of Canada and the Proliferation of Immigrant Otherness
o Clearing the 'Empty' West
o An Explosion of Racial Subject-Positions
o Restoring Order: J.S. Woodsworth and the Great Chain of Race
o Managing the Strangers within Our Gates: Assimilation,
Transportation, Deportation, and Internment
o Excluding the Strangers Without
o Identity by Design in Early Twentieth-Century Canada
7. The Rise of the Mosaic Metaphor
o Canadian Identity as an Emergent Phenomenon
o The Canadian Mosaic as a Constrained Emergence Theory of
Identity
o Design, Designers, and the Social Sciences
o WWII and the 'First Bureaucracy for Multiculturalism'
o The Citizenship Machine
o From Racial Assimilation to Cultural Integration
8. Unhappy Countriness: Multiculturalism as State Policy
o The 'Liberalization' of Canadian Society
o From Monopoly to Duopoly: The B & B Report
o Multiculturalism in a Bilingual Framework as Strategic
Simulation of Assimilation to the Other
o Multiculturalism: Modern or Postmodern?
9. A Revaluation of Canadian Multiculturalism
o A Critique of Kymlicka's Liberal Theory of Minority Rights
o Charles Taylor and the Limits of Recognition
o From Deep Diversity to Radical Imaginary
Notes
Bibliography
Index