GGR202H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Racialization, Visible Minority
Document Summary
Canada has the best reputation for being a multicultural country. Inclusion, tolerance, respect, recognition of reality: supposed to allow us to coexist peacefully, has an informal idea, value different visible minorities in canada. Formal policy/law (formal, m: has to come from immigration, before 1967, immigration was primarily from europe, in areas where there were people of colour people were not allowed into canada, face of canada started to change after 1967. Weren"t using the word multiculturalism yet: canadian charter of rights and freedoms defensible in spirit of multiculturalism, 1971. An act was written and it became a law. Maintain equality (to be treated equally), access, preservation (preserve peoples culture and religion) Difference refers to relational production of meaning in terms of non-identical. Spatial constitution of subjectivity: we understand we are canadian because we live in canada, it helps us believe this. Recognition of difference can be positive: difference now comes to mean not otherness, exclusive opposition, but specify, variation.
