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| Title: | Identity & Belonging
: Rethinking Race & Ethnicity in Canadian Society |
| Author: | Sean P Hier & B Singh Bolaria |
| ISBN: | 1551303124 : 9781551303123 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 170x250mm |
| Pages: | 278 |
| Weight: | .478 Kg. |
| Published: | Canadian Scholars' Press - December 2006 |
| List Price: | 17.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Canada: Ethnic studies |
Canada is a country that is not very sure of its own identity. Many of our citizens do not know where they fit in the national fabric. As ethno-racial diversity increases, so will our uncertainty of our identity and role in the development of our nation. While Canada has always been culturally diverse, the continuing ethno-racial diversification will exercise a profound influence on Canadian culture, as well as on Canadian political and social institutions. As the ethno-racial composition becomes more complex, critical understandings of race, ethnicity, identity, and belonging are increasingly important goals for social justice, fairness, and inclusion. Provocative and ground-breaking, 'Identity and Belonging' addresses these concerns, poses some essential questions about the nature of race and ethnicity, how they differ from one another, and how they might differ from other markers of identity, such as class, gender, or nationality.
Introduction: Identities without Guarantees; Representations of the Other; The Social Construction of Primordial Identities; Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Identity; Post-modern Race and Gender Essentialism or a Post-mortem of Scholarship; The Origins of National Consciousness; Re-membering and Forgetting; The Racial State; Identity, Belonging, and the Critique of Pure Sameness; Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?; Between Black and White: Exploring the "Biracial" Experience; Interrogating the Hyphen-Nation: Canadian Multicultural Policy and "Mixed Race" Identities; Formation of Ethnic and Racial Identities: Narratives by Young Asian-American Professionals; Immigration, Multiculturalism, and Citizenship: The Development of the Canadian Social Justice Infrastructure; "Canadian" as an Ethnic Category: Implications for Multiculturalism and National Unity; From Redistribution to Recognition? Dilemmas of Justice in a "Post-Socialist" Age; The Future of Identity.
