Home and Native Land

Unsettling Multiculturalism in Canada Edited by May Chazan, Lisa Helps, Anna Stanley and Sonali Thakkar PAPERBACK EBOOK LIBRARY $29.95 256 pages ISBN 9781897071618 Published July 2011 ADD TO CART SHOP LOCAL Home and Native Land takes its vastly important topic and places it under a new, penetrating light–shifting focus from the present grounds of debate onto a more critical terrain. The book’s articles, by some of the foremost critical thinkers and activists on issues of difference, diversity, and Canadian policy, challenge sedimented thinking on the subject of multiculturalism. Not merely “another book” on race relations, national identity, or the post 9-11 security environment, this collection forges new and innovative connections by examining how multiculturalism relates to issues of migration, security, labour, environment, nature, and land. These novel pairings illustrate the continued power, limitations, and, at times, destructiveness of multiculturalism, both as policy and as discourse. PRAISE A critical collection that makes a significant contribution to current discussions about multiculturalism as policy and discourse in Canada. This book develops the important idea that the organization of difference and belonging in Canada is an ongoing colonial project that requires the regulation of indigenous peoples, lands, and racialized others under a national narrative of white settler multiculturalism. – Eve Haque, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University