Multiculturalism

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“Too Asian”?

Racism and Post-Secondary Education

 The now notorious Maclean’s article “Too Asian?” from the magazine’s 2010 campus issue has sparked a national furor about race in Canadian higher education. Since the … ; ; ; 224 View

Black Geographies

and the Politics of Place

 Black Geographies and the Politics of Place is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in black geographic theory. Fourteen authors address specific geographic sites and develop their … 272 View

Home and Native Land

Unsettling Multiculturalism in Canada

 Home and Native Land takes its vastly important topic and places it under a new, penetrating light—shifting focus from the present grounds of debate onto a more critical terrain. The … ; ; ; 256 View

Managing Diversity

Practices of Citizenship

 Australia, Canada, and Ireland are all engaged in questions of multiculturalism and in the politics of recognition and reconciliation, the opportunities and pressures of geographic regionalism, … ; 225 View

Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History

Exploring Kant, Hegel, and Marx

 Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History provides a strikingly original reading of key texts in the philosophy of history by Kant, Hegel, and Marx, as well as strong arguments for why these … 185 View
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My Mother, My Translator

 In 2008, Jaspreet Singh made a pact with his mother. He would gladly give her the go-ahead to publish her significantly altered translation of a story from his … 280 View

Uprooting Racism

How White People Can Work for Racial Justice (4th Edition)

 In 2016, the president-elect of the United States openly called for segregation and deportation based on race and religion. Meanwhile, inequalities in education, housing, health care and the job … 451 View
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From: Home and Native Land

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 Examines the policy of multiculturalism within a settler society, and whether the current debates are disruptive or just another form of assimilation. Includes a discussion of the effects of the … ; ; ; 14 $1.40 Add
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“No One Knows the Mysteries at the Bottom of the Ocean”

From: Black Geographies

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 Introduction to the themes of the book. Found in black geographies are a history of brutal segregation and erasure, but also processes that inform a different or new approach to the production of … ; 13 $1.30 Add
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From: “Too Asian”?

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 The introduction looks at how liberal and right-wing journalism in Canada deal with issues of “Race” and multiculturalism, especially on university and college campuses. 14 $1.40 Add
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From: Uprooting Racism

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 Uprooting Racism begins with the understanding that racism exists, it is pervasive and that its effects are devastating. Because of this devastation, we need to start doing everything possible to … 6 $0.60 Add
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From: Managing Diversity

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Introduction: Where Are We Headed?

From: Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History

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My Mother, My Translator

From: My Mother, My Translator

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 Recounts the story of Singh’s mother translating his first collection of short stories into Punjabi. Their trust over the translation of the fourteenth story prompted Singh to push his … 11 $1.10 Add
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Kant and the Cosmopolitan Point of View

From: Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History

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 For Kant, a position that enables us to consider the whole of history can be found if we adopt a cosmopolitan point of view. The idea of cosmopolitanism is quite popular at the present time … 18 $2.34 Add
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National Identity and Global Migration: Listening to the “Pariahs”

From: Managing Diversity

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 If we live in a world of the absolute Other, peopled by individuals whose histories have not been ours but with whom we must live in peace and harmony, we will have to accept each other much more … 19 $2.28 Add