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Contents

Introduction: Rethinking National Identity in Multicultural Canada

Part 1. Multiculturalism from Historical and Indigenous Perspectives

Chapter 1. Fifty Years of Multiculturalism: A Riddle, a Mystery, an Enigma

Chapter 2. Refusing Minoritization: Indigenous People and the Politics of Multiculturalism

Chapter 3. Toward an Emotional Geography of Language for Rethinking Canadian Identity in a Transnational World

Part 2. Redefining Identities in Educational Contexts

Chapter 4. Canadian Identity from a Multicultural Perspective: Foregrounding Immigrant and Indigenous Voices in an ESL Course

Chapter 5. Reconstruction of Canadian Identity in Second Language Education: Creating an Inclusive Classroom for English Language Learners

Chapter 6. Les enjeux du plurilinguisme en milieu scolaire francophone minoritaire : Inclusion et consruction identitaire polymorphe

Part 3. Beyond Marked Identities in Literature

Chapter 7. The Case for Literary Extroversion and Human Consciousness Expansion in Canadian Literature: Writing, Identity, and Belonging beyond the Anglo-Saxon Ethic and Aesthetic

Chapter 8. Confronting Exclusion in English Canadian Literature: Portugese Canadian Hybrid and Hyphenated Voices and Identities

Part 4. Elevating Transcultural Identities in National Spaces

Chapter 9. A Transcultural Reconstruction of Identity and Inclusion: The Cambodian Canadian Experience

Chapter 10. The Conundrum of Reconstructing Canada’s Identity without Reconciliation

Chapter 11. “Que Soy Yo?”: Identity and Belonging among Central Americans in Canada

Part 5. Belonging in Foreign Spaces

Chapter 12. Reimagin(in)g Neighbourhood and Belonging: Youth Citizenship in Practice

Chapter 13. Suppression for the Sake of Survival: Multisectoral Voices on Belonging and Anti-Racism

Chapter 14. Diversifying Unity and Unifying Diversity: Christian Hospitality in Multicultural Presbyterian Churches in Toronto

Chapter 15. Yiddish in Canada: A Study of the Rise and Fall of a Unique Form of Cultural and Linguistic Diversity

Part 6. Rethinking “Canadian Identity” from Socio-Cultural Perspectives of Inclusion

Chapter 16. “But Some Are More Equal than Others”: On Black Canadians’ Sense of Belonging and Truncated Citizenship

Chapter 17. Canadian Multiculturalism in the Neo-Liberal Era: Discourses of Race, Asianness, and Assimilation in Maclean’s “Too Asian?”

Chapter 18. Intercultural Mediation: A Necessity for Identity Reconstruction Observed in Contemporary Quebec

Part 7. Gendered, Racialized, and Transnational Identities Reconstructing “Canadian Identity”

Chapter 19. Self-Employment among Immigrant and Migrant Women and Reconstruction of Canadian Identity from Intersecting Marginal Positions

Chapter 20. Migration and the Paradox of Canadian Bilingualism: The Experience of the Sub-Saharan African Francophone Immigrants in the Minoritized Francophone Community of the GTA

Contributors