Ethnicity, Politics, and Public Policy: Case Studies in Canadian Diversity
Ten essays on multiculturalism form a comprehensive picture of the problems and prospects of pluralism and mirror the nuanced issues which arise when theories and goals of cultural sensitivity confront real life.
| Summary: | Ten essays on multiculturalism form a comprehensive picture of the problems and prospects of pluralism and mirror the nuanced issues which arise when theories and goals of cultural sensitivity confront real life. Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Part One: Cultural Diversity and Societal Responses -- 1 Diversity in Canada -- 2 Female Genital Operations: Canadian Realities, Concerns, and Policy Recommendations -- 3 Break North: Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture in Canada -- Part Two: Ethnic Match and Minority Origin Professionals -- 4 'You Show Up, You're Blue': The Challenge Facing Visible Minority Police Officers -- 5 The Challenge of Ethnic Match: Minority Origin Professionals in Health and Social Services -- 6 The Role of Minority Educators: Haitian Teachers in Quebec Schools -- 7 Wife Abuse and Ideological Competition in the Muslim Community of Toronto -- Part Three: Ethnicity, Race, and Politics -- 8 Black Insiders, the Black Polity, and the Ontario NDP Government, 1990-1995 -- 9 The Canadian Jewish Polity and the Limits of Political Action: The Campaigns on Behalf of Soviet and Syrian Jews -- 10 Immigration and the Canadian Federal Election of 1993: The Press as a Political Educator -- EPILOGUE: EXPANDING THE RESEARCH AGENDA -- CONTRIBUTORS. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (306 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4426-7467-7 0-8020-4165-5 0-8020-8027-8 978-0-8020-8027-1 |
