This engaging new anthology brings together important selections that have informed debates and generated controversies about race and ethnicity from the nineteenth century onwards. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the collection demonstrates and analyzes a transition from Canada's early
focus on 'ethnicity' to the current proliferation of sophisticated analyses of 'race' as a concept. Resistances to traditional thinking about race and ethnicity by academics and activist communities are also discussed. The text demonstrates that despite claims of race-neutrality as a preferred
ideal, Canada is actually a racialized society - race remains a key variable in influencing people's identities, experiences, and outcomes.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: 'Conceptualizing the politics of race: Taking race Seriously'
Part I: Racing Canada: Historical Perspectives
1. James Walker: 'Race' and the Law
2. Robin W. Winks: Negro School Segregation in Ontario and Nova Scotia
3. James
S. Woodsworth: Strangers within Our Gates, or Coming Canadians
4. John Murray Gibbon: Canadian Mosaic: The Making of a Northern Nation
5. Constance Backhouse: Race Definition Run Amuck: 'Slaying the Dragon of Eskimo Status' in Re Eskimos, 1939
6. Monica Boyd, Gustave Goldmann, and Pamela
White: Race in the Canadian Census
7. Augie Fleras: 'Playing the Aboriginal Card': Race or Rights?
8. Cecil Foster: Where Race Does Not Matter: The New Spirit of Modernity
Part II: Systemic Racism: Theorizing Racism as Structural Exclusion
9. Roxana Ng: Immigrant Women,
Community Work, and Class Relations
10. Daiva K. Stasiulis: Theorizing Connections: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class
11. Frances Henry, Carol Tator, Winston Mattis, and Tim Rees: The Ideology of Racism
12. Sherene Razack: Geopolitics, Culture Clash, and Gender after September
11
Part III: Racialization: From Theorizing Race to Racializing Practices
13. Cyril Levitt and William Shaffir: The Swastika as Dramatic Symbol: A Case Study of Ethnic Violence in Canada
14. Peter S. Li: Thorny Questions and Conceptual Biases
15. David M. Tanovich: What Is
It?
16. Minelle Mahtani: Tricking the Border Guards: Performing Race
17. Augie Fleras: An Optical Delusion: 'Racializing Eye Colour'
18. Carl E. James: Race and the Social/Cultural Worlds of Student Athletes
19. The Colour of Poverty Campaign: Understanding the Racialization of
Poverty in Ontario: An Introduction in 2007
20. Canadian Constitution Foundation: Japanese-Canadian Fishermen's Association: Seeking to Intervene before the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Kapp
Part IV: Anti-racism and Theorizing Resistance
21. Carol A. Aylward: Canadian Critical
Race Litigation: Wedding Theory and Practice
22. Bonita Lawrence and Enakshi Dua: Decolonizing Anti-racism
23. George J. Sefa Dei: Speaking Race: Silence, Salience, and the Politics of Anti-racist Scholarship
24. Afua Cooper: Acts of Resistance: Black Men and Women Engage Slavery in
Upper Canada, 1793-1803
Conclusion: Theorizing Race in Canada: Future Possibilities
Appendix A: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Appendix B: UNESCO and Its Programme: The Race Question
Appendix C: The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
References
Index
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Maria Wallis, holds a PhD from York University and has taught at King's University College at the University of Western Ontario, the University of Calgary, Wilfrid Laurier University, and McMaster University. She is currently teaching at York University. Augie Fleras has a PhD in Social
Anthropology from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. He is an Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Waterloo and McMaster University.
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