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Colonialism and racism in Canada : historical traces and contemporary issues

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  • Contributor: Galabuzi, Grace-Edward; Sunseri, Lina
    Date:
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    2010
    Summary:

    Colonialism and Racism in Canada situates current, important readings within a practical pedagogical apparatus and structure. Each chapter follows the same pedagogical structure: a brief Introduction, a list of Learning Objectives, A Scholarly Article/Reading, Critical Questions, Key Concepts, Terms, a brief Bibliography, and suggested Websites for further investigation. This is the first book in the market to situate the study of Race and Racism within a context of Colonialism: a system of social, legal, and cultural structures that can impact and, in some cases, impede the progress of racial minorities in this country.

    Contents:
    • Part one: Historical analysis
    • 1. Settling differences: managing and representing people and land in the Canadian National Project / Eva Mackey
    • 2. Rewriting histories of the land / Bonita Lawrence
    • 3. Our mothers grand and great: black women of Nova Scotia / Sylvia Hamilton
    • Part two: The Canadian state
    • 4. On the dark side of the nation: politics of multiculturalism and the state of "Canada" / Himani Bannerji
    • 5. Theoretical foundations and the challenge of Aboriginal rights / Patricia A. Monture-Angus
    • 6. State responses to racism in Canada / Frances Henry et al.
    • 7. Protecting equality in the face of terror: ethnic and racial profiling and s. 15 of the Charter / Sujit Choudhry
    • Part three: Everyday and cultural racism
    • 8. Running clean: Ben Johnson and the unmaking of Canada / Gamal Abdel-Shehid
    • 9. Literature, image, and societal values / Janice Acoose
    • 10. The new yellow peril: the rhetorical construction of Asian Canadian identity and cultural anxiety in Richmond / Glenn Deer
    • 11. Others in their own land: second generation South Asian Canadian women, racism, and the persistence of colonial discourse / Angela Aujla
    • Part four: Contemporary issues
    • 12. Reconsidering the constitution, minorities and politics in Canada / Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Tim Nieguth
    • 13. Social exclusion / Grace Edward-Galabuzi
    • 14. On being not Canadian: the social organization of "migrant workers" in Canada / Nandita Sharma
    • 15. Whose transnationalism? Canada, "clash of civilizations" discourse, and Arab and Muslim Canadians / Sedef Arat-Koc
    • Part five: Responses and resistances
    • 16. Nurses and porters: racism, sexism and resistance in segmented labour markets / Agnes Calliste
    • 17. Indigenous voice matters: claiming our space through decolonizing research / Lina Sunseri
    • 18. Rebellion of the truth / Taiaiake Alfred.
    Original Publisher: Toronto, Nelson Education
    Language(s): English