Includes bibliographical references.

"In Talking about Difference, Canadians from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds - Aboriginal, African, Jewish, East European, and Asian - present their impressions of what it's like to grow up in, immigrate to, or work in Canada. Their personal stories illuminate the complex ways in which culture, race, class and identity find expression in our daily lives.

The stories - variously warm and harsh, humorous and thought-provoking and always engaging - deal with the everyday questions of who is really Canadian, of growing up and living in more than one culture, of stereotyping, and of confronting racism. The range of experiences and of styles - essays, letters, personal narratives, and journalistic articles - offers an entertaining and instructive glimpse of life in a country with a rapidly changing and vibrant population mix." (Book Cover)

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Learning from Encounters / Carl E. James and Adrienne Shad

Part I: WHO'S A CANADIAN, ANYWAY?

Where Are You Really From? Notes of an "Immigrant" from North Buxton, Ontario / Adrienne Shadd

But What Is Your Nationality? / Susan Judith Ship

Québécitude: An Ambiguous Identity / Guy Bédard

I want to call myself Canadian / Katalin Szepesi

Hello...My Name is... / Katalin Szepesi

Part II: GROWING UP

My Mother Used to Dance / Valerie Bedassigae Pheasant

Zebra: Growing up Black and White in Canada / Lawrence Hill

Growing up Ukrainian in Toronto / Jerry Diakiw

I Ain`t Sitting Beside HER / Shyrose Jaffer

Present Company Excluded, of Course / Stanley Isoki

My New Home / Denny Hunte

Grade Six, 1993 / Kai James

Part III: IDENTITIES: LIVING IN MANY WORLDS

Revealing Moments: The Voice of One who Lives with Labels /
Didi Khayatt

Is it Japanese Artist or Artist who is Japanese? / Lillian Blakey

Being German, Being Canadian /
Gottfried Paasche

Why Admit You Are an Eskimo? / Doris J. Saunders

When an Immigrant Meets an Aboriginal / Pui Yee Beryl Tsang

Part IV: RACE, PRIVILEGE, AND CHALLENGES

I've Never Had A Black Teacher Before / Carl E. James

White Teacher, Black Literature / Leslie Sanders

White Privilege: What's In It for Me? / Karen Lynn

Learning from Discomfort: A Letter to my Daughters / Barb Thomas

Part V: STEREOTYPING IS A COMMON PRACTICE, BUT...

Stereotyping / Kai James

I Didn't Know You Were Jewish...and Other Things Not To Say When You Find Out / Ivan Kalmar

But You Are Different: In Conversation with a Friend / Sabra Desai

Part VI: CONFRONTING RACISM

The "Race Consciousness" of a South Asian (Canadian, of Course) Female Academic / Arun Mekherjee

One Family. Indivisible? Or Me, and Two of My Children / Boyce, Robert and Belle Richardson

There's A White Man in My Bed: Scenes from Interracial Marriage / Pui Yee Beryl Tsang

Black Nationalists Beware! You Could Be Called a Racist for Being "Too Black and African" / Henry Martey Codjoe

Bibliography

Biographical Notes