“The multiplicity of perspectives and voices represented in this collection draws attention to core contradictions associated with Canadian identity. Interconnected themes and analytical frames enrich the work, offering unique ways of reconsidering what Canada represents as a nation.”
Authors
- Pages
- 336
- Published in
- Winnipeg, CA
- Rights
- The Authors
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
