Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Concepts of Ethnicity and "Race"
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Ethnicity: Early Sociological Approaches
A Short History of "Race"
Racism
Summary
Questions for Critical Thought
Debate Questions
Annotated
Additional Readings
Related Websites
2. Theories of Ethnicity and "Race"
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Primordialism and Socio-biology
Culture and Assimilation
Culture and Socio-economic Success
Conflict Theory and Political Economy
Intersectional
Analysis
Critical Race Theory
Post-colonialism
"Whiteness"
Summary
Questions for Critical Thought
Debate Questions
Annotated Additional Readings
Related Websites
3. The Dynamics of Nation-Building: Indigenous/Settler Relations, French/English Relations, and
Immigration in Historical Perspective
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Indigenous/Settler Relations in Historical Perspective
French/English Relations in Historical Perspective
Immigration in Historical Perspective
Ethnicity, "Race," and the Canadian
Census
Summary
Questions for Critical Thought
Debate Questions
Annotated Additional Readings
Related Websites
4. Immigration and the Canadian Mosaic
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Why Immigration?
Contemporary Immigration Categories: Debates and
Controversies
Migrants on the Margins
Summary
Questions for Critical Thought
Debate Questions
Annotated Additional Readings
Related Websites
5. Understanding Social Inequality: The Intersections of Ethnicity, Gender, and Class
Learning
Objectives
Introduction
The Vertical Mosaic: Porter's Legacy
Evidence for Ethnic Convergence
The New Colour-Coded Vertical Mosaic?
A Critical Assessment of Ethnic/"Racial" Inequality Research
Bringing Class Back In
Summary
Questions for Critical Thought
Debate
Questions
Annotated Additional Readings
Related Websites
Notes
6. Diversity, Multiculturalism, and Quebec Interculturalism
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Meanings of Federal Multiculturalism
Contesting Multiculturalism
Quebec's Response: Interculturalism
and Reasonable Accommodation
Summary
Questions for Critical Thought
Debate Questions
Annotated Additional Readings
Related Websites
7. Racism
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Organized Racism and the Internet
Racism, Surveys, and Public
Opinion
Institutional Racism
New Racism and Religious Hatred: Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism
Summary
Questions for Critical Thought
Debate Questions
Annotated Additional Readings
Related Websites
8. Indigenous and Settler Relations
Learning
Objectives
Introduction
Labels, Identities, and Group Boundaries
Comparing Collectivities: Between-Group Differences
Explaining Indigenous Conditions
Stratification and Differences within Indigenous Communities
Summary
Questions for Critical Thought
Debate
Questions
Annotated Additional Readings
Related Websites
9. Transnationals or Diasporas? Ethnicity and Identity in a Globalized Context
Learning Objectives
Introduction
The Genealogy of Diaspora and Transnationalism, and the New Mobilities Paradigm
Diasporas
A
Canadian Diaspora?
Transnationalism
Five Critical Comments
Summary
Questions for Critical Thought
Debate Questions
Annotated Additional Readings
Related Websites
Glossary
References
Index
Test Bank
For each chapter:
- 20 multiple choice questions
- 10 true-or-false questions
- 5 short answer questions
- 3 essay questions
- All questions include an answer key/sample answers plus page references
PowerPoint slides
For each chapter:
-
15-20 lecture slides
- Includes all tables and figures from the text
COVID-19 supplement
- Resource on the intersection of the COVID-19 pandemic and "race"
Black Lives Matters supplement
- Resource on the Black Lives Matter movement that expands on the coverage in the text
in the aftermath of the protests in Canada and the U.S.
Vic Satzewich is a professor of sociology at McMaster University.
Making Sense in the Social Sciences - Margot Northey, Lorne Tepperman and Patrizia Albanese
Understanding Social Inequality - Julie McMullin and Josh Curtis
The Stacked Deck - Jennifer Ball and Lorne Tepperman
Inequality Matters - Augie Fleras
Inequality in Canada - Edited by Valerie Zawilski
Racism in Canada - Vic Satzewich
The Politics of Race in Canada - Maria Wallis and Augie Fleras