Introduction

The Problem of the Problem of Diversity
Terminological Issues

The Field of Canadian Diversity

Some Methodological Concerns
Canadian Diversity in State Policy
Canadian Diversity in Popular Culture
Canadian Diversity and the Academy
Identity, Identification, and the Desire for Recognition
Nation and State, Power and Resistance
Delimiting the Field

European Antecedents to the Problem of Canadian Diversity

How Difference Changes, How It Remains the Same
Herodotus, Father of Ethnography
Ancient Ionian Hellenism and the Destruction of the Inferior Other
Incorporation of the Other in Roman Imperialism
Early Christianity: The Missionary Urge
Renaissance Exploration and the New World 'Savage'
From Prehistory to History: A Summary of European Contributions to the Problem of Canadian Diversity

Two 'Canadian' Solutions to the Problem of Diversity

The First Others of the New World
Conversion and Extermination: The Cases of the Huron and the Iroquois
The coureurs de bois as a Repressed Hybrid Identity
The System of Difference in French Colonial Discourse
How Canada Became British
Ignorance and Extermination in the New Founde Landes
Microcontrol and Hybridity: The Hudson's Bay Company and the British Fur Trade
The Early Colonial History of Canadian Diversity

Repetition and Failure in British North America

The Conquest of New France
The Emergence of the Two Founding Races
Rational-Bureaucratic Tutelage: The Indian Problem under British Rule
Group Identity in British Canada

The Dominion of Canada and the Proliferation of Immigrant Otherness

Clearing the 'Empty' West
An Explosion of Racial Subject-Positions
Restoring Order: J.S. Woodsworth and the Great Chain of Race
Managing the Strangers within Our Gates: Assimilation, Transportation, Deportation, and Internment
Excluding the Strangers Without
Identity by Design in Early Twentieth-Century Canada

The Rise of the Mosaic Metaphor

Canadian Identity as an Emergent Phenomenon
The Canadian Mosaic as a Constrained Emergence Theory of Identity
Design, Designers, and the Social Sciences
WWII and the 'First Bureaucracy for Multiculturalism'
The Citizenship Machine
From Racial Assimilation to Cultural Integration

Unhappy Countriness: Multiculturalism as State Policy

The 'Liberalization' of Canadian Society
From Monopoly to Duopoly: The B & B Report
Multiculturalism in a Bilingual Framework as Strategic Simulation of Assimilation to the Other
Multiculturalism: Modern or Postmodern?

A Revaluation of Canadian Multiculturalism

A Critique of Kymlicka's Liberal Theory of Minority Rights
Charles Taylor and the Limits of Recognition
From Deep Diversity to Radical Imaginary

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Richard J.F. Day is an assitant professor in the Department of Sociology at Queen's University.

Reviews

'This analysis offers an instructive and provocative overview of the evolution of Canadian discussions of immigration issues... While readers will take issue with some elements of its analysis, the book is engagingly wirtten and a distinctive addition to the literature on Canadian multiculturalism.'
*Ethnic and Racial Studies*

'This is a challenging book in which historians, political scientists, and social scientists generally will find much to ponder and debate. Although many will find much with which to disagree, or may conclude that its ideological perspective results in some distortion in the interretation of evidence, nonetheless, its fundamental challenge to the very foundation of Canadian cultural policy makes it required reading.'
*Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism*

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