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Us, Them, and Others : Pluralism and National Identity in Diverse Societies / Elke Winter.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Budde-Winter, Elke, 1941- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Multiculturalism--Canada.
- Multiculturalism.
- Cultural pluralism--Canada.
- Cultural pluralism.
- Québec (Province)--History--Autonomy and independence movements.
- Québec (Province).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Us, Them, and Others sheds new light on the astonishing resilience of Canadian multiculturalism in the late 1990s, when multicultural policies in other countries had already come under heavy attack. Winter draws on analyses of English-language newspaper discourses and a sociological framework to connect discourses of pan-Canadian multicultural identity to representations of Quebecois nationalism, immigrant groups, First Nations, and the United States. Taking inspiration from the Canadian experience, Us, Them, and Others is an enticing examination of national identity and pluralist group formation in diverse societies."--Pub. desc.
- "How do countries come to view themselves as being 'multicultural'? Us, Them, and Others presents a dynamic new model for understanding pluralism based on the triangular relationship between three groups - the national majority, historically recognized minorities, and diverse immigrant bodies. Elke Winter's research illustrates how compromise between unequal groups is rendered meaningful through confrontation with real or imagined outsiders.
- Contents:
- How to 'we' becomes pluralist?
- A Canadian paradox
- Theoretical puzzles
- Social relations and processes of ethnicization
- Nationalist exclusion and its remedies
- How do 'we' become multicultural?
- Neither 'America' or 'Quebec'
- To be or not to be like Quebec
- Who constitutes multiculturalism? Divergent perspectives
- The social constitution of a pluralist 'we'
- Comparative perspectives.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9781442661189
- 1442661186
- 9781442663220
- 1442663227
- OCLC:
- 779695950
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