Multiculturalism and the History of Canadian Diversity

Richard J.F. Day is an assitant professor in the Department of Sociology at Queen's University.

'This analysis offers an instructive and provocative overview of the evolution of Canadian discussions of immigration issues... While readers will take issue with some elements of its analysis, the book is engagingly wirtten and a distinctive addition to the literature on Canadian multiculturalism.'(Ethnic and Racial Studies) 'This is a challenging book in which historians, political scientists, and social scientists generally will find much to ponder and debate. Although many will find much with which to disagree, or may conclude that its ideological perspective results in some distortion in the interretation of evidence, nonetheless, its fundamental challenge to the very foundation of Canadian cultural policy makes it required reading.'(Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism)

• IntroductionThe Problem of the Problem of DiversityTerminological IssuesThe Field of Canadian DiversitySome Methodological ConcernsCanadian Diversity in State PolicyCanadian Diversity in Popular CultureCanadian Diversity and the AcademyIdentity, Identification, and the Desire for RecognitionNation and State, Power and ResistanceDelimiting the FieldEuropean Antecedents to the Problem of Canadian DiversityHow Difference Changes, How It Remains the SameHerodotus, Father of EthnographyAncient Ionian Hellenism and the Destruction of the Inferior OtherIncorporation of the Other in Roman ImperialismEarly Christianity: The Missionary UrgeRenaissance Exploration and the New World 'Savage'From Prehistory to History: A Summary of European Contributions to the Problem of Canadian DiversityTwo 'Canadian' Solutions to the Problem of DiversityThe First Others of the New WorldConversion and Extermination: The Cases of the Huron and the IroquoisThe coureurs de bois as a Repressed Hybrid IdentityThe System of Difference in French Colonial DiscourseHow Canada Became BritishIgnorance and Extermination in the New Founde LandesMicrocontrol and Hybridity: The Hudson's Bay Company and the British Fur TradeThe Early Colonial History of Canadian DiversityRepetition and Failure in British North AmericaThe Conquest of New FranceThe Emergence of the Two Founding RacesRational-Bureaucratic Tutelage: The Indian Problem under British RuleGroup Identity in British CanadaThe Dominion of Canada and the Proliferation of Immigrant OthernessClearing the 'Empty' WestAn Explosion of Racial Subject-PositionsRestoring Order: J.S. Woodsworth and the Great Chain of RaceManaging the Strangers within Our Gates: Assimilation, Transportation, Deportation, and InternmentExcluding the Strangers WithoutIdentity by Design in Early Twentieth-Century CanadaThe Rise of the Mosaic MetaphorCanadian Identity as an Emergent PhenomenonThe Canadian Mosaic as a Constrained Emergence Theory of IdentityDesign, Designers, and the Social SciencesWWII and the 'First Bureaucracy for Multiculturalism'The Citizenship MachineFrom Racial Assimilation to Cultural IntegrationUnhappy Countriness: Multiculturalism as State PolicyThe 'Liberalization' of Canadian SocietyFrom Monopoly to Duopoly: The B & B ReportMulticulturalism in a Bilingual Framework as Strategic Simulation of Assimilation to the OtherMulticulturalism: Modern or Postmodern?A Revaluation of Canadian MulticulturalismA Critique of Kymlicka's Liberal Theory of Minority RightsCharles Taylor and the Limits of RecognitionFrom Deep Diversity to Radical ImaginaryNotesBibliographyIndex