WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Multiculturalism In Canada, Flag Of Canada, Dionne Brand

• School: UTSG
• Department: Women and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS160Y1
• Professor: June Larkin

Document Summary

Connections b/w queer & trans identity how do different communities identify w/ them differently. Lec overview: nationalism & collective gender identities: nation, nationalism, & national identity, gender, the state, & nation building, masculinist protection. State: the political and bureaucratic institutions, practices, & policies that govern a given territory & population identity (grewal & kaplan, 2006, p. 151). Key theme: challenge the commonness or homogeneity as the goal of nationalism. Connection with notion of national identity (there are diff forms) just like diff forms of feminisms. Why i intend to wear my niqab at my citizenship ceremony. When we come to canada we have to replace ourselves w/ something different. Message of assimilation, (cid:272)apitalis(cid:373), (cid:862)the o(cid:374)ly way to (cid:271)e su(cid:272)(cid:272)essful by coming to ca(cid:374)ada is (cid:271)y (cid:373)aki(cid:374)g a lot of (cid:373)o(cid:374)ey(cid:863) in order to belong you have to adapt. Decentering the myth of canadian multiculturalism: problematizes the discourse of multiculturalism whereby difference is minimized.