SY210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Francis Xavier, Social Inequality, Canadian English
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As frances henry and carol tator point out in the introduction to their book discourses of. Domination: racial bias in the canadian english-language press (2002:9), the language that we use to discuss the issues around race and ethnicity changes, as the paradigms we rely on and the questions we ask evolve over time. Researchers studied the organization of these groups and how they assimilated to the culture of the dominant anglo-saxon society around them. Multiculturalism is both an ideology and a set of government policies which value cultural diversity and provide special services to help groups maintain their cultures. Before we address the assigned readings by kim pate and frances henry et. al. , let"s review some of the basic concepts at the center of their discussions of race and racism in canada today. These definitions are taken from the glossary in discourses of domination (pp. You"ll find more definitions and elaborations of important concepts incorporated into the online text.
