Multiculturalism and the History of Canadian Diversity / / Richard J.F. Day.
Is Canada a country of equal and peacefully coexisting identities, working towards what Charles Taylor has called a 'post-industrial Sittlichkeit'? In this analysis of the history of Canadian diversity, Richard Day argues that no degree or style of state intervention can ever bring an end...
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Day, Richard J.F., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Multiculturalism and the History of Canadian Diversity / Richard J.F. Day. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018] ©2000 1 online resource (288 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Field of Canadian Diversity -- 3. European Antecedents to the Problem of Canadian Diversity -- 4. Two 'Canadian' Solutions to the Problem of Diversity -- 5. Repetition and Failure in British North America -- 6. The Dominion of Canada and the Proliferation of Immigrant Otherness -- 7. The Rise of the Mosaic Metaphor -- 8. Unhappy Countriness: Multiculturalism as State Policy -- 9. A Revaluation of Canadian Multiculturalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Is Canada a country of equal and peacefully coexisting identities, working towards what Charles Taylor has called a 'post-industrial Sittlichkeit'? In this analysis of the history of Canadian diversity, Richard Day argues that no degree or style of state intervention can ever bring an end to tensions related to ethnocultural relations of power.Using Foucault's method of genealogical analysis and a theory of the state form derived from the works of Deleuze and Guattari, Day creates a framework for his exploration of the construction of human difference and its management over the years. He argues that Canada's multicultural policies are propelled by a fantasy of unity based on the nation-state model. Our legislation, policies, and practices do not move us towards equality and reciprocity, he reveals, because they are rooted in a European drive to manage and control diversity.Day challenges the notion that Canadian multiculturalism represents either progress beyond a history of assimilation and genocide or a betrayal of that very history that supports the dominance of Anglo-Canadians. Only when English Canada is able to abandon its fantasy of unity, Day concludes, can the radical potential of multiculturalism politics be realized. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021) Multiculturalism Canada History. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations. bisacsh print 9780802080752 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442677449 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442677449 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442677449.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Field of Canadian Diversity -- 3. European Antecedents to the Problem of Canadian Diversity -- 4. Two 'Canadian' Solutions to the Problem of Diversity -- 5. Repetition and Failure in British North America -- 6. The Dominion of Canada and the Proliferation of Immigrant Otherness -- 7. The Rise of the Mosaic Metaphor -- 8. Unhappy Countriness: Multiculturalism as State Policy -- 9. A Revaluation of Canadian Multiculturalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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