Reconstructions of Canadian Identity : Towards Diversity and Inclusion

Table of Contents

• Cover 1
• Contents 6
• Introduction: Rethinking National Identity in Multicultural Canada 12
• Part 1. Multiculturalism from Historical and Indigenous Perspectives 28
• Chapter 1. Fifty Years of Multiculturalism: A Riddle, a Mystery, an Enigma 30
• Chapter 2. Refusing Minoritization: Indigenous People and the Politics of Multiculturalism 47
• Chapter 3. Toward an Emotional Geography of Language for Rethinking Canadian Identity in a Transnational World 66
• Part 2. Redefining Identities in Educational Contexts 84
• Chapter 4. Canadian Identity from a Multicultural Perspective: Foregrounding Immigrant and Indigenous Voices in an ESL Course 86
• Chapter 5. Reconstruction of Canadian Identity in Second Language Education: Creating an Inclusive Classroom for English Language Learners 102
• Chapter 6. Les enjeux du plurilinguisme en milieu scolaire francophone minoritaire : Inclusion et consruction identitaire polymorphe 119
• Part 3. Beyond Marked Identities in Literature 140
• Chapter 7. The Case for Literary Extroversion and Human Consciousness Expansion in Canadian Literature: Writing, Identity, and Belonging beyond the Anglo-Saxon Ethic and Aesthetic 142
• Chapter 8. Confronting Exclusion in English Canadian Literature: Portugese Canadian Hybrid and Hyphenated Voices and Identities 158
• Part 4. Elevating Transcultural Identities in National Spaces 174
• Chapter 9. A Transcultural Reconstruction of Identity and Inclusion: The Cambodian Canadian Experience 178
• Chapter 10. The Conundrum of Reconstructing Canada’s Identity without Reconciliation 198
• Chapter 11. “Que Soy Yo?”: Identity and Belonging among Central Americans in Canada 222
• Part 5. Belonging in Foreign Spaces 238
• Chapter 12. Reimagin(in)g Neighbourhood and Belonging: Youth Citizenship in Practice 240
• Chapter 13. Suppression for the Sake of Survival: Multisectoral Voices on Belonging and Anti-Racism 261
• Chapter 14. Diversifying Unity and Unifying Diversity: Christian Hospitality in Multicultural Presbyterian Churches in Toronto 277
• Chapter 15. Yiddish in Canada: A Study of the Rise and Fall of a Unique Form of Cultural and Linguistic Diversity 293
• Part 6. Rethinking “Canadian Identity” from Socio-Cultural Perspectives of Inclusion 310
• Chapter 16. “But Some Are More Equal than Others”: On Black Canadians’ Sense of Belonging and Truncated Citizenship 312
• Chapter 17. Canadian Multiculturalism in the Neo-Liberal Era: Discourses of Race, Asianness, and Assimilation in Maclean’s “Too Asian?” 328
• Chapter 18. Intercultural Mediation: A Necessity for Identity Reconstruction Observed in Contemporary Quebec 344
• Part 7. Gendered, Racialized, and Transnational Identities Reconstructing “Canadian Identity” 356
• Chapter 19. Self-Employment among Immigrant and Migrant Women and Reconstruction of Canadian Identity from Intersecting Marginal Positions 358
• Chapter 20. Migration and the Paradox of Canadian Bilingualism: The Experience of the Sub-Saharan African Francophone Immigrants in the Minoritized Francophone Community of the GTA 375
• Contributors 392