Colonialism and racism in Canada : historical traces and contemporary issues

Wallis, Maria A. (Maria Antoinette) 1960- (Author). Galabuzi, Grace-Edward. (Added Author). Sunseri, Lina. (Added Author). Xwi7xwa Collection (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0176500669 :
ISBN: 9780176500665 :
Physical Description: vi, 369 p. ; 24 cm.
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Publisher: Toronto : Nelson Education, c2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part one: Historical analysis -- 1. Settling differences: managing and representing people and land in the Canadian National Project / Eva Mackey -- 2. Rewriting histories of the land / Bonita Lawrence -- 3. Our mothers grand and great: black women of Nova Scotia / Sylvia Hamilton -- Part two: The Canadian state -- 4. On the dark side of the nation: politics of multiculturalism and the state of "Canada" / Himani Bannerji -- 5. Theoretical foundations and the challenge of Aboriginal rights / Patricia A. Monture-Angus -- 6. State responses to racism in Canada / Frances Henry et al. -- 7. Protecting equality in the face of terror: ethnic and racial profiling and s. 15 of the Charter / Sujit Choudhry -- Part three: Everyday and cultural racism -- 8. Running clean: Ben Johnson and the unmaking of Canada / Gamal Abdel-Shehid -- 9. Literature, image, and societal values / Janice Acoose -- 10. The new yellow peril: the rhetorical construction of Asian Canadian identity and cultural anxiety in Richmond / Glenn Deer -- 11. Others in their own land: second generation South Asian Canadian women, racism, and the persistence of colonial discourse / Angela Aujla -- Part four: Contemporary issues -- 12. Reconsidering the constitution, minorities and politics in Canada / Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Tim Nieguth -- 13. Social exclusion / Grace Edward-Galabuzi -- 14. On being not Canadian: the social organization of "migrant workers" in Canada / Nandita Sharma -- 15. Whose transnationalism? Canada, "clash of civilizations" discourse, and Arab and Muslim Canadians / Sedef Arat-Koc -- Part five: Responses and resistances -- 16. Nurses and porters: racism, sexism and resistance in segmented labour markets / Agnes Calliste -- 17. Indigenous voice matters: claiming our space through decolonizing research / Lina Sunseri -- 18. Rebellion of the truth / Taiaiake Alfred.