CANADIAN MULTICULTURALISM AND ABORIGINAL PEOPLE - NEGOTIATING A PLACEIN THE NATION

Authors
Citation
Ei. Legare, CANADIAN MULTICULTURALISM AND ABORIGINAL PEOPLE - NEGOTIATING A PLACEIN THE NATION, Identities, 1(4), 1995, pp. 347-366
Citations number
66
Language
INGLESE
art.tipo
Article
Categorie Soggetti
Ethnics Studies
Journal title
ISSN journal
1070-289X
Volume
1
Issue
4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
347 - 366
Database
ISI
SICI code
1070-289X(1995)1:4<347:CMAAP->2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
This paper examines the discourse of Canadian multiculturalism. The au thor argues that, because it is grounded in presuppositions about cult ure and how culture serves to identify a people or nation, this discou rse constructs culturally defined ethnic identities as categories of e thnic difference that both permit and deny inclusion within the Canadi an nation. This argument is illustrated by an examination of the strug gle of Aboriginal peoples to claim a place within the nation. The auth or concludes that, despite the possibilities it allows, the discourse of multiculturalism is close to a racialist discourse, and that it all ows difference only in circumscribed ways.