Ethnicity, Politics, and Public Policy : : Case Studies in Canadian Diversity / / ed. by Harold Troper, Morton Weinfeld.

Canada has become a nation in which ethnic pluralism must be balanced with national unity. Focusing on information derived from case studies - documents, interviews, and participant observation - the ten essays in this collection introduce the reader to specific problems that arise in an ethnically...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Part One: Cultural Diversity and Societal Responses
  • 1. Diversity in Canada
  • 2. Female Genital Operations: Canadian Realities, Concerns, and Policy Recommendations
  • 3. Break North: Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture in Canada
  • Part Two: Ethnic Match and Minority Origin Professionals
  • 4. 'You Show Up, You're Blue7: The Challenges Facing Visible Minority Police Officers
  • 5. The Challenge of Ethnic Match: Minority Origin Professionals in Health and Social Services
  • 6. The Role of Minority Educators: Haitian Teachers in Quebec Schools
  • 7. Wife Abuse and Ideological Competition in the Muslim Community of Toronto
  • Part Three: Ethnicity, Race, and Politics
  • 8. Black Insiders, the Black Polity, and the Ontario NDP Government, 1990-1995
  • 9. The Canadian Jewish Polity and the Limits of Political Action: The Campaigns on Behalf of Soviet and Syrian Jews
  • 10. Immigration and the Canadian Federal Election of 1993: The Press as a Political Educator
  • Epilogue: Expanding the Research Agenda
  • Contributors