HIS466H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anti-Intellectualism
Document Summary
Within race and the ideas of whiteness in canada and globally, there are white people on the margins. We are continually trying to push the boundaries of the category, insofar as it"s a you-know-it-when-you-see-it category. When court cases were adjudicated, frequently the courts resorted to this sort of it response. Historically, canadian historians have highlighted the raceless-ness of canada. There is a general canadian reluctance to discuss race. The scholarship in canada is thus still wide open. There is a di erence between commemoration and public record, but one must be privileged in order to truly make this distinction. The issue isn"t necessarily commemoration, it"s the lack of context. No one in history is a saint. The hyphenated nature of many canadians" identity speaks to our multiculturalism, viz. relative to the u. s.
