Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction: Rethinking National Identity in Multicultural Canada 1
4. Part 1: Multiculturalism from Historical and Indigenous Perspectives
5. Introduction 17
6. 1 Fifty Years of Multiculturalism: A Riddle, a Mystery, an Enigma 19
7. 2 Refusing Minoritization: Indigenous People and the Politics of Multiculturalism 36
8. 3 Toward an Emotional Geography of Language for Rethinking Canadian Identity in a Transnational World 55
9. Part 2: Redefining Identities in Educational Contexts
10. Introduction 73
11. 4 Canadian Identity from a Multicultural Perspective: Foregrounding Immigrant and Indigenous Voices in an ESL Course 75
12. 5 Reconstruction of Canadian Identity in Second Language Education: Creating an Inclusive Classroom for English Language Learners 91
13. 6 Les enjeux du plurilinguisme en milieu scolaire francophone minoritaire: Inclusion et construction identitaire polymorphe 108
14. Part 3: Beyond Marked Identities in Literature
15. Introduction 129
16. 7 The Case for Literary Extroversion and Human Consciousness Expansion in Canadian Literature: Writing, Identity, and Belonging beyond the Anglo-Saxon Ethic and Aesthetic 131
17. 8 Confronting Exclusion in English Canadian Literature: Portuguese Canadian Hybrid and Hyphenated Voices and Identities 147
18. Part 4: Elevating Transcultural Identities in National Spaces
19. Introduction 163
20. 9 A Transcultural Reconstruction of Identity and Inclusion: The Cambodian Canadian Experience 167
21. 10 The Conundrum of Reconstructing Canada’s Identity without Reconciliation 187
22. 11 “Que Soy Yo?”: Identity and Belonging among Central Americans in Canada 211
23. Part 5: Belonging in Foreign Spaces
24. Introduction 227
25. 12 Reimagin(in)g Neighbourhood and Belonging: Youth Citizenship in Practice 229
26. 13 Suppression for the Sake of Survival: Multisectoral Rural Voices on Belonging and Anti-Racism 250
27. 14 Diversifying Unity and Unifying Diversity: Christian Hospitality in Multicultural Presbyterian Churches in Toronto 266
28. 15 Yiddish in Canada: A Study of the Rise and Fall of a Unique Form of Cultural and Linguistic Diversity 282
29. Part 6: Rethinking “Canadian Identity” from Socio-Cultural Perspectives of Inclusion
30. Introduction 299
31. 16 “But Some Are More Equal than Others”: On Black Canadians’ Sense of Belonging and Truncated Citizenship 301
32. 17 Canadian Multiculturalism in the Neo-Liberal Era: Discourses of Race, Asianness, and Assimilation in Maclean’s “Too Asian?” 317
33. 18 Intercultural Mediation: A Necessity for Identity Reconstruction Observed in Contemporary Quebec 333
34. Part 7: Gendered, Racialized, and Transnational Identities Reconstructing “Canadian Identity”
35. Introduction 345
36. 19 Self-Employment among Immigrant and Migrant Women and Reconstruction of Canadian Identity from Intersecting Marginal Positions 347
37. 20 Migration and the Paradox of Canadian Bilingualism: The Experience of Sub-Saharan African Francophone Immigrants in the Minoritized Francophone Community of the GTA 364
38. Contributors 381