Identity and belonging : rethinking race and ethnicity in Canadian society

Bolaria, B. Singh, 1936- (Added Author). Hier, Sean P. (Sean Patrick), 1971- (Added Author).

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ISBN: 9781551303123 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1551303124 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
x, 278 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Toronto : Canadian Scholars' Press, 2006.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction : identities without guarantees -- Ch. 1. Representations of the other / Robert Miles and Malcolm Brown -- Ch. 2. social construction of primordial identities / Anton Allahar -- Ch. 3. Race, ethnicity, and cultural identity / Carl E. James -- Ch. 4. Postmodern race and gender essentialism or a post-mortem of scholarship / Radha Jhappan -- Ch. 5. origins of national consciousness / Benedict Anderson -- Ch. 6. Re-membering and forgetting / Ron Eyerman -- Ch. 7. racial state / Michael Omi and Howard Winant -- Ch. 8. Identity, belonging, and the critique of pure sameness / Paul Gilroy -- Ch. 9. Optional ethnicities : for whites only? / Mary C. Waters -- Ch. 10. Between black and white : exploring the "biracial" experience / Kerry Ann Rockquemore -- Ch. 11. Interrogating the hyphen-nation : Canadian multicultural policy and "mixed race" identities / Minelle Mahtani -- Ch. 12. Formation of ethnic and racial identities : narratives by young Asian-American professionals / Pyong Gap Min and Rose Kim -- Ch. 13. Immigration, multiculturalism, and citizenship : the development of the Canadian social justice infrastructure / Charles S. Ungerleider -- Ch. 14. "Canadian" as an ethnic category : implications for multiculturalism and national unity / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann -- Ch. 15. From redistribution to recognition? : dilemmas of justice in a "post-socialist" age / Nancy Fraser -- Ch. 16. Future of identity / Stuart Hall.