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A space for race : decoding racism, multiculturalism and post-colonialism in the quest for belonging in Canada and beyond / Kathy Hogarth, Wendy L. Fletcher.

by Hogarth, Kathy.

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Oxford University Press, 2018.

305.800971 H715s

Racism -- Canada.

Multiculturalism -- Canada.

Postcolonialism -- Canada.

Canada -- Race relations.

Canada -- Ethnic relations.

9780190858919 (pbk.)

xxi, 141 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-129) and index.

History of racism in Western culture and Canadian immigration -- Canadian context -- New immigrants and refugees -- Muslim and Arab canadians -- Anti-racism -- Canada and colonization in historical perspective -- First Nations and colonization in Canada -- Broad limitations of the Indian Act -- Criminalization of indigenous culture -- Reserve lands : an exercise in containment and control -- Education as an assimilationist tool -- Colonial reproductions : the methods of reinvention -- Canadian policies -- Academia and the colonial mission of enlightenment -- Western feminist discourse as a colonial marker -- Space and social imaginary -- Immigration and other laws defining space by race -- The lens -- The Chinese experience -- The Japanese experience -- The Black experience -- Challenges of diaspora -- Shifting notions of diaspora -- Black Canadians -- Anti-semitism and the story of Jewish Canada -- Racialized anti-semitism -- Jewish immigration -- The tenor of Canadian anti-semitism -- A history of Arabs in Canada -- Islamophobia -- Difference, belonging and multiculturalism -- Moving towards belonging -- First nations communities : an exception which proves the rule -- Black communities -- A history of Black resistance -- Jewish communities -- Chinese communities -- Japanese communities -- Arabs and muslims communities -- Expressions of racism in a new key.

"Who belongs? Who doesn't? Why? With this book authors explore the impact of unquestioned racial assumptions in the Canadian narrative which have constructed an insider/outsider culture. From that baseline, authors then develop an analytic designed to move beyond racialized othering to a society of genuine inclusivity and universal belonging"--From publisher.

Fletcher, Wendy L.

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