The politics of race in Canada : readings in historical perspectives, contemporary realities, and future possibilities

Fleras, Augie, 1947- (editor., Added Author). Wallis, Maria A. (Maria Antoinette), 1960- (editor., Added Author).

Summary: This engaging new anthology brings together important selections that have informed debates and generated controversies about race and ethnicity from the nineteenth century onwards. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the collection demonstrates and analyzes a transition from Canada's early focus on 'ethnicity' to the current proliferation of sophisticated analyses of 'race' as a concept. Resistances to traditional thinking about race and ethnicity by academics and activist communities are also discussed. The text demonstrates that despite claims of race-neutrality as a preferred ideal, Canada is actually a racialized society - race remains a key variable in influencing people's identities, experiences, and outcomes.

Record details

ISBN: 9780195428056
Physical Description: xxiv, 296 pages ; 23 cm.
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Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-290) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

'Race' and the law / James St.G. Walker -- Negro school segregation in Ontario and Nova Scotia / Robin W. Winks -- Strangers within our gates, or coming Canadians / James S. Woodsworth -- Canadian mosaic : the making of a northern nation / John Murray Gibbon -- Race definition run amuck : 'slaying the dragon of Eskimo status' in Re Eskimos, 1939 / Constance Backhouse -- Race in the Canadian census / Monica Boyd, Gustave Goldmann, and Pamela White -- Playing the aboriginal card : race or rights? / Augie Fleras -- Where race does not matter : the new spirit of modernity / Cecil Foster -- Immigrant women, community work, and class relations / Roxana Ng -- Theorizing connections : gender, race, ethnicity, and class / Daiva K. Stasiulis -- The Ideology of racism / Frances Henry, Carol Tator, Winston Mattis, and Tim Rees -- Geopolitics, culture clash, and gender after September 11 / Sherene Razack -- The Swastika as dramatic symbol : a case study of ethnic violence in Canada / Cyrill Levitt and William Shaffir -- Thorny questions and conceptual biases / Peter S. Li -- What is it? / David M. Tanovich -- Tricking the border guards : performing race / Minelle Mahtani -- An optical delusion : 'racializing eye colour' / Angie Fleras -- Race and the social/cultural worlds of student athletes / Carl E. James -- Understanding the racialization of poverty in Ontario : an introduction in 2007 / The Colour of Poverty Campaign -- Japanese-Canadian Fishermen's Association : seeking to intervene before the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Kapp / Canadian Constitution Foundation -- Canadian critical race litigation : wedding theory and practice / Carol A. Aylward -- Decolonizing anti-racism / Bonita Lawrence and Enakshi Dua -- Speaking race : silence, salience, and the politics of anti-racist scholarship / George J. Sefa Dei -- Acts of resistance : black men and women engage slavery in upper Canada, 1793-1803 / Afua Copper.