SOCI 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter Mahtani: Multiracial, Canadian Identity, Visible Minority
19 Dec 2018
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This paper examines the ways mixed race" women in canada contemplate their relationship to national identity. Through qualitative, open-ended interviews, the research demonstrates how some women of the nation as constituted through the policy of multiculturalism in canada. The inauguration of multicultural policy in canada in 1971. The hyphen is seen as a by-product of the implementation of multiculturalism in canada, a policy that aimed to acknowledge every canadian"s right to identify with the cultural tradition of their choice while retaining canadian citizenship. Imagining new senses of nationalism as places for creating personal meanings of ethnicity, identity and their relationship to nation among conflicting racial and gendered discourses. Demonstrate the difficulties of speaking of a national or ethnic identity separately in canada. Multiculturalism as policy emerged, in part, because of perceived challenges posed by the influx of ethnically diverse immigrants into canada. Demands for cultural protection and social equality among ethnic groups. Royal commission on bilingualism and biculturalism in 1962.
