WSTB11H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Intersectionality, Visible Minority, Feminist Formations
19 Jan 2017
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Last week we discussed how the concepts of family and nation have historically been interconnected. We focused on how the history of race, slavery and colonialism in north america has shaped both ideas about family and nation : the contemporary family . Is what hill-collins calls the tradition family idea still valid in our contemporary society: the example of mixed unions in canada. Some particular ethnic groups had a higher proportion of couples in mixed unions than others. Japanese had the highest proportion marrying or partnering outside of their visible minority group (75%) They were followed by latin americans (47%), blacks (41%), filipino (33%), southeast asians (31%), arabs and west asians (25%), koreans (19%), chinese (17%), and south asians (13%) Mixed unions are higher for canadian born than foreign-born and a longer duration of residence in canada does seem to be associated with a higher proportion of being in a mixed union.
