Previous ed. published under title: Multiculturalism in Canada.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Canada established itself as the world's first officially multicultural nation in 1971. In the thirty years since the policy was implemented, Canadians have struggled with and embraced the tensions inherent in it.

Multiculturalism was designed to create unity from diversity. Survey after survey confirms support for principles of diversity, and as other nations become increasingly multicultural, they look to Canada to see how the politics and policies of multiculturalism work. But is Canada as diversity-minded as many would like to believe?

Engaging Diversity examines multiculturalism as an official policy and as a set of practices. Part One gives an overview of the theories and discourses surrounding the formation of policy.

Part Two discusses the implementation of multiculturalism in criminal justice, education, media, and everyday life. Finally, an afterword examines the future of multiculturalism - its emergent realities and its changing directions." (Book Cover)

CONTENTS

Preface

PART 1 THE IDEA OF MULTICULTURALISM

The Multicultural Landscape

CHAPTER 1 Multiculturalism and Diversity

Defining Multiculturalism

Diversity: For What Ends, In Whose Interests, On What Grounds?
The Problems of Diversity
Living Together with

Differences: Perils and Promises

Paradoxes of Diversity

Chapter Highlights

Review Questions

Recommended Reading

CHAPTER 2 Multiculturalism: Fact, Ideology, Practice, and Critique

Conceptualizing Multiculturalism

Multiculturalism as an Empirical Fact

A Demographic Revolution

Multiculturalism as Ideology
Ideology Defined
The Ideology of Multiculturalism: A Blueprint for Living Together

Multiculturalism as Practice
Political Interests Commercial Interests

Minority Interests

Multiculturalism as Critique

Chapter Highlights

Review Questions

Recommended Reading

CHAPTER 3 Official Multiculturalism: The Politics of Policy

Framing Multicultural Policies

The Political Economy of Multiculturalism as Policy

Multiculturalism as State Policy

Official Multiculturalism: Evolutions of a Revolution

Building Toward Multiculturalism
Phase One: Ethnicity Multiculturalism

Phase Two: Equity Multiculturalism
Phase Three: Civic Multiculturalism

Continuity in Change

Multiculturalism in the United States: Duelling

Discourses
"Isms" of Resistance, Challenge, and

Transformation
A Continental Divide

Interculturalism in Quebec

Multiculturalism versus Multinationalism

"The Canadian Way": Universal Model Or One of a Kind?

Chapter Highlights

Review Questions

Recommended Reading

CHAPTER 4 Appraising Multiculturalism: Attitudes, Criticisms, Benefits, and Costs

A Contested Domain

Gauging Public Attitudes
Surveying Multiculturalism

Multiculturalism and Its Discontents

Putting Multiculturalism to the Critical Test
Controversy #1: Is multiculturalism divisive?
Controversy #2: Is multiculturalism marginalizing?
Controversy #4: Is multiculturalism a hoax?
Controversy #5: Is multiculturalism disempowering?

The Good, the Bad, the In Between
The Politics of the In Between
Canada Is Multiculturalism/Multiculturalism Is Canada
A Riddle, a Mystery, an Enigma

Chapter Highlights

Review Questions

Recommended Reading

PART 2 PUTTING MULTICULTURALISM TO WORK

CHAPTER 5 Diversifying Criminal Justice: Cops, Courts, Corrections

Crisis in Criminal (In)justice

Mis-policing Diversity

Professional Crime-Fighters

C*O*P*S*: Community-Oriented Policing

Toward Multicultural Policing

Rethinking Aboriginal Justice
Crisis in Aboriginal Communities
A Criminal Injustice System
Competing Justice Systems
Aboriginal Justice as Restorative Justice

Toward Inclusiveness

Chapter Highlights

Review Questions

Recommended Reading

CHAPTER 6 Miscasting Minorities: Multiculturalism and the Mass Media

A Crisis in Representation

Patterns in Miscasting
Ghettoizing Minorities
Stigmatizing Minorities
Demonizing Minorities
Whitewashing Minorities
Miniaturizing Minorities

The Impact of "Othering" Minorities

Silences of the Media: Accounting for the Miscasting
Money Talks
Stereotyping as a Staple

Systemic Bias: "It's the Way We Do Things Around Here"
Media Logic: "Discourses in Defence of Ideology" - Rethinking the Relationship
Multiculturalizing the Media
Two Steps Forward...
...One Step Back
Mainstreaming Diversity
Aboriginal and Ethnic Media

Chapter Highlights

Review Questions

Recommended Reading

CHAPTER 7 Multicultural and Antiracist Education

Multicultural Education/Educating Multiculturally
Contesting Schooling
Identity Crisis

Models of Multicultural Education
Enrichment Multicultural Education
Enlightenment Multicultural Education
Empowerment Multicultural Education
Schooling with a Difference

Antiracism Education
Religious Pluralism and Multicultural Education
Religion and Schools: A Volatile Mix?

Schooling Together with Religious Differences

Chapter Highlights

Review Questions

Recommended Reading

CHAPTER 8 Multicultural Competence:

Communications, Mindsets, and Imagination

"Walking the Talk"

The Notion of Competence
Monoculturalism and Multiculturalism
Countdown to Competence

Barriers to Multicultural Competence
Prejudice
Ethnocentrism
Stereotyping

Unmasking Racism
Racism as Race
Racism as Culture
Racism as Power

Communicating Across Differences

Cross-Cultural Communication: Fallacies and Facts
The Paradox of Symbolic Communication
The Social Dimension of Language
Communication as Social Activity
"You Cannot Not Communicate"
Communication as Power and Control
Deception Is Communication

Keys to Communicating Competence
Communicating Without Words
Coping with the Culture of X-C Communication

Chapter Highlights

Review Questions

Recommended Reading

Afterword

Glossary

Index