ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Nationstates, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
13 Apr 2016
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Nation-states and identities: why are some identities privileged over. The other can live outside or inside the borders of the nation-state. Immigration is another way in which others are produced. Immigrant others are often constructed in terms of racial/ethnic identities. Race and ethnicity are important features in national identity narratives of who belongs and who doesn"t. National identities are also created and reinforced is through educational institutions: indigenous peoples and the canadian state. Treaty-making, residential schools, challenges and resistance to the canadian state: eva mackey, the house of difference cultural politics and. Classic canadian national identity encapsulated in the benevolent. Since the late 1970s canadian national identity has been framed in terms of the policy and mythology of multiculturalism; canada is described as a cultural mosaic, distinct from the melting pot" of the usa. A pluralist national identity is a flexible strategy developed to manage diverse populations while maintaining the power of white middle class anglo-canadians.
