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Website links
Citizenship and Immigration Canada
First People’s Heritage Language and Cultural Council
Multimedia links
Government of Canada video about Immigrating to Canada:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/multimedia/video/immcan/immcan.asp
NFB documentary about a year in the life of two teenage refugees in Canada:
NFB documentary about living as a mixed-race Canadian:
TEDxToronto talk on Racial Profiling:
Readings: Racial and Ethnic Groups
Cannon, M.J., & Sunseri, L. (Eds). (2011). Racism, Colonialism, and Indigeneity in Canada: A Reader. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.
Both editors are members of First Nations in Canada and speak from their own experiences as well as draw upon the work of several other indigenous scholars about how racism and colonialism has impacted the lives of Indigenous people in Canada. Family relations, relations with the justice system identity issues, and territorial rights are all examined through a historical and contemporary lens, with a focus on what can be done and ways to work collectively across difference to address historical wrongs.
Fleras, A. (2014). Racisms in a Multicultural Canada: Paradoxes, Politics, and Resistance. Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier Press.
Fleras argues that in Canada, despite the mantle of multiculturalism, racism is not disappearing but rather is simply morphing into new and different ways to continue historic exclusions based on racialization. The author suggests that racism today is multifaceted and therefore challenging to get to the roots of to overcome. Power and politics are central to his analysis as is a discussion of why and how racism proliferates in Canada.
Henry, F., & Tator, C. (2009). The Colour of Democracy: Racism in Canadian Society (4th ed.) Toronto, ON: Thomson Nelson.
This critique of racism in Canada examines the contradictions of multiculturalism and democratic racism in contemporary Canadian society. The book examines the many ways that racism is embedded deep within Canadian policies, practices, and institutions including an in-depth analysis of how it manifests, why and how it continues, and what the responses to racism have been so far. Institutions like education, law, sports, media, and arts and culture are all explored.
Porter, J. (1965). The Vertical Mosaic: An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.
This is the first truly Canadian study on race and ethnicity in Canada, and remains influential to this day. It asks how and why ethnicity is related to a group’s position in the economic structure, and examines the role of education in fostering social mobility. Porter challenges the idea that Canada is a classless society by demonstrating the role that ethnicity plays in shaping people’s opportunities for upward mobility.
Satzewich, V. (2011). Racism in Canada . Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.
This book is an excellent and thorough examination of issues of racism in Canadian society, especially as they intersect with immigration, aboriginal–non-aboriginal relations, racial profiling, Islamophobia, French–English relations, and notions of racial and ethnic identity. Satzewich concludes the book with a discussion of anti-racism theory and practice, examining the challenges presented by these as solutions to racism.
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