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Social Science Discrimination & Race Relations

Understanding Diversity

Ethnicity and Race in the Canadian Context

by (author) Wsevolod Isajiw

Publisher
Thompson Educational Publishing, Inc.
Initial publish date
Apr 1999
Category
Discrimination & Race Relations
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550771022
    Publish Date
    Apr 1999
    List Price
    $49.95

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The Canadian census lists more than one hundred ethnicities in the Canadian population, making it rather unique even among modern, multi-ethnic nations. Understanding Diversity is a core text for use at universities and colleges across Canada. Its aim is to stimulate students to think about ethnicity and race in a more systematic, analytical manner -- one that will lead to a better understanding of the important place of ethnicity in Canada and in the global society. Over the past 30 years or so, an entire body of theoretical and empirical knowledge has developed about ethnicity and ethnic and race relations in Canada. While researchers may disagree on specific issues, they have much in common and they share a basic agreement on the importance of quantitative and qualitative methods in resolving their outstanding differences. This book describes the essential features of the 'sub-discipline' that has emerged in this area and it details what we know, don't know, and still need to know about ethnicity and ethnic and race relations in Canada.

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