Critical Inquiries
Critical Inquiries
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"" TABLE OF CONTENTS Contributors Acknowledgements Foreword – Rinaldo Walcott Towards a Critical and New Canadian Studies: Lessons on Coloniality Building a Space for Critical Canadian Studies – Lynn Caldwell, Darryl Leroux and Carrianne Leung Multiculturalism, Difference and The Politics of Diversity Space, Place and Territory Symbols and Sameness PART ONE – Multiculturalism, Difference and the Politics of Diversity 1. The Bilingual Limits of Canadian Multiculturalism – Eve Haque A Genealogy of Royal Commissions Historical Context for the RCBB The Preliminary Phase The Public Hearings Book I to The Official Languages Act Book IV to "Multiculturalism within a Bilingual Framework" Conclusion 2. Arts Funding, the State and Canadian Nation-Making – Andrea Fatona Governing Culture/Culture of Governing The Canadian Government and its Responsibility for Culture The Massey Commission Culture, Race and the Massey Report Managing the Arts: The Birth and Funding of the Canada Council for the Arts Funding to Artists and Arts Organizations Culture and Representation Diversity Years 1980s – 1990s: Producing Governable Subjects Conclusion 3. The Many Paradoxes of Race in Québec: Civilization, Laïcité and Gender (In)equality – Darryl Leroux Double Colonization and the Culturalization of Race Theories of Race: Flexible and Shifting Meanings The Bouchard-Taylor Commission The Trouble with Reasonable Accommodation: The Discourse of Opposition in Québec Québec Values: Laïcité Québec Values: Gender Equality Conclusion 4. Theorizing Multicultural Jewish Identity in Canada – Michele Byers and Stephanie Tara Schwartz Writing Canadian Jewish Culture: The Problem of Jewish Cultural Studies Jewishness and Whiteness Entry into Discourse Living and Producing Canadian Jewish Difference b.h. Yael: Hybrid Identities and Bridging the Margins Geoff Berner: Questioning Jewish Privilege LE MOOD: Creating Spaces for Alternatives Conclusion: Theorizing Canadian Jewish Difference PART TWO – Space, Place and Territory 5. Chinese Canada in Moose Jaw: A Story Told in Two Parts – Carrianne Leung Moose Jaw: Most Canadian of Cities A Passage to Fortune Journey from Degeneracy to Respectability The Liberal Discourse of Passage to Fortune The White Body in the Tunnels Ghosts? From Passing to Crossings . . . Chinese Cafés as Institution Racial/Sexual Anxieties and the "Family" The Mundane Two Narratives Collide Conclusion 6. Unsettling the Middle Ground: Could the World Use a More Questionable Saskatchewan? – Lynn Caldwell Situating This Project in Studies of Canada What Sticks? Sara Ahmed and the Cultural Politics of Emotion Saskatchewan's Sticky Space Celebrating and Commemorating: The Centennial Centennial Moments that Placed Saskatchewan Middle Landscape Terrain of Disharmony and Displacement On the Maps of a Nation Place with a Future "The World Could Use a Little More Saskatchewan" Conclusion: Or Perhaps a More Questionable Saskatchewan 7. Home at the Bridge: Indigenous Belonging and the Settler Border – Robinder Kaur Sehdev Precarious Bridges and Risky Crossings Belonging and Home in the Settler Nation Roots and the Spectres of Purity Homecoming at the Bridge PART THREE – Symbols of Sameness 8. In the Shoes of the Other: Reclaiming Authenticity from Colonial Logics of Difference – Damien Lee Defining Differences Differing Authenticities Invisibilizing Indigenous Peoples Conclusion 9. Homonormativity and the Loss of Queer: Re-contextualizing Canada's Sexual Politics – Oren Howlett The First Period of Sexual Regulation: The Colonial Implementation of Regulation The Second Period of Sexual Regulation: Enforcing National Security The Third Period of Sexual Regulation: Managed Integration and the Politics of Homonormativity Lending a Critical Eye to the Future of Canadian Queer History 10. Monumental Performances: The Famous Five, Gendered Whiteness and the Making of Canada's Colonial Present – Mary-Jo Nadeau The Famous Five: A Brief History in Three Parts The Original Five: A Dual Legacy of Feminism and White Nationalism The Famous Five and post-1960s Canadian Feminism The Famous Five Foundation "Feminist Racists" or "Imperfect Heroines"? Enacting Multiculturalist Scripts "Real, Named and Heroic:" Gendered Whiteness, Spatial Dominance and the Colonial Present Written Texts and Teacups: Erasing Racism through Gender and Unmarked Whiteness The Bodies: Humanized, "Real" and Spatially Dominant The Empty Chair: Gendered Whiteness as Monumental Performance 11. Afterword – Sherene Razack Starting with Bodies and Repressed Truths Starting with Indigenous Bodies What To Do with Larry Hartwig's Smile? Other Racialized Bodies Conclusion: The Race to Innocence References Index ""Description
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"" TABLE OF CONTENTS Contributors Acknowledgements Foreword – Rinaldo Walcott Towards a Critical and New Canadian Studies: Lessons on Coloniality Building a Space for Critical Canadian Studies – Lynn Caldwell, Darryl Leroux and Carrianne Leung Multiculturalism, Difference and The Politics of Diversity Space, Place and Territory Symbols and Sameness PART ONE – Multiculturalism, Difference and the Politics of Diversity 1. The Bilingual Limits of Canadian Multiculturalism – Eve Haque A Genealogy of Royal Commissions Historical Context for the RCBB The Preliminary Phase The Public Hearings Book I to The Official Languages Act Book IV to "Multiculturalism within a Bilingual Framework" Conclusion 2. Arts Funding, the State and Canadian Nation-Making – Andrea Fatona Governing Culture/Culture of Governing The Canadian Government and its Responsibility for Culture The Massey Commission Culture, Race and the Massey Report Managing the Arts: The Birth and Funding of the Canada Council for the Arts Funding to Artists and Arts Organizations Culture and Representation Diversity Years 1980s – 1990s: Producing Governable Subjects Conclusion 3. The Many Paradoxes of Race in Québec: Civilization, Laïcité and Gender (In)equality – Darryl Leroux Double Colonization and the Culturalization of Race Theories of Race: Flexible and Shifting Meanings The Bouchard-Taylor Commission The Trouble with Reasonable Accommodation: The Discourse of Opposition in Québec Québec Values: Laïcité Québec Values: Gender Equality Conclusion 4. Theorizing Multicultural Jewish Identity in Canada – Michele Byers and Stephanie Tara Schwartz Writing Canadian Jewish Culture: The Problem of Jewish Cultural Studies Jewishness and Whiteness Entry into Discourse Living and Producing Canadian Jewish Difference b.h. Yael: Hybrid Identities and Bridging the Margins Geoff Berner: Questioning Jewish Privilege LE MOOD: Creating Spaces for Alternatives Conclusion: Theorizing Canadian Jewish Difference PART TWO – Space, Place and Territory 5. Chinese Canada in Moose Jaw: A Story Told in Two Parts – Carrianne Leung Moose Jaw: Most Canadian of Cities A Passage to Fortune Journey from Degeneracy to Respectability The Liberal Discourse of Passage to Fortune The White Body in the Tunnels Ghosts? From Passing to Crossings . . . Chinese Cafés as Institution Racial/Sexual Anxieties and the "Family" The Mundane Two Narratives Collide Conclusion 6. Unsettling the Middle Ground: Could the World Use a More Questionable Saskatchewan? – Lynn Caldwell Situating This Project in Studies of Canada What Sticks? Sara Ahmed and the Cultural Politics of Emotion Saskatchewan's Sticky Space Celebrating and Commemorating: The Centennial Centennial Moments that Placed Saskatchewan Middle Landscape Terrain of Disharmony and Displacement On the Maps of a Nation Place with a Future "The World Could Use a Little More Saskatchewan" Conclusion: Or Perhaps a More Questionable Saskatchewan 7. Home at the Bridge: Indigenous Belonging and the Settler Border – Robinder Kaur Sehdev Precarious Bridges and Risky Crossings Belonging and Home in the Settler Nation Roots and the Spectres of Purity Homecoming at the Bridge PART THREE – Symbols of Sameness 8. In the Shoes of the Other: Reclaiming Authenticity from Colonial Logics of Difference – Damien Lee Defining Differences Differing Authenticities Invisibilizing Indigenous Peoples Conclusion 9. Homonormativity and the Loss of Queer: Re-contextualizing Canada's Sexual Politics – Oren Howlett The First Period of Sexual Regulation: The Colonial Implementation of Regulation The Second Period of Sexual Regulation: Enforcing National Security The Third Period of Sexual Regulation: Managed Integration and the Politics of Homonormativity Lending a Critical Eye to the Future of Canadian Queer History 10. Monumental Performances: The Famous Five, Gendered Whiteness and the Making of Canada's Colonial Present – Mary-Jo Nadeau The Famous Five: A Brief History in Three Parts The Original Five: A Dual Legacy of Feminism and White Nationalism The Famous Five and post-1960s Canadian Feminism The Famous Five Foundation "Feminist Racists" or "Imperfect Heroines"? Enacting Multiculturalist Scripts "Real, Named and Heroic:" Gendered Whiteness, Spatial Dominance and the Colonial Present Written Texts and Teacups: Erasing Racism through Gender and Unmarked Whiteness The Bodies: Humanized, "Real" and Spatially Dominant The Empty Chair: Gendered Whiteness as Monumental Performance 11. Afterword – Sherene Razack Starting with Bodies and Repressed Truths Starting with Indigenous Bodies What To Do with Larry Hartwig's Smile? Other Racialized Bodies Conclusion: The Race to Innocence References Index ""Description
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