Engaging Diversity : Multiculturalism in Canada /
Augie Fleras and Jean Leonard Elliott.
- 2nd ed.
- Toronto : Nelson Thomson Learning, 2002.
- xv, 296 p. : cov. ill. ; 23 cm.
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