Synopses & Reviews
This book examines a broad range of topics and issues in Canadian ethnicity, including theories of ethnicity and ethnic change, a history of demography and multicultural regionalism, ethnic identity and identification, language and the Quebec "nation," rural and urban ethnic enclaves, racial inequality and powerlessness, class and socio-economic status, attitudes towards ethnic groups, and the quest for ethnic rights.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-336) and index.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Finding a Theoretical Focus
1. Ethnic Pluralism and Industrialization
1.1. Max Weber and Ethnic Identity
Race and Biological Inheritance
Culture and Consciousness of Kind
Tribe: Emergence of `A People'
Nationality: The Notion of a `Volk'
Religion: An Ideological Symbol System
1.2. Industrial Change: A Major Classical Concern
Marx: Materialism and Stratification
Durkheim: Cohesion and Sacralization
1.3. Ethnicity and the Chicago School
Thomas and Immigrant Reorganization
Robert Park and Race Relations
Students of the Chicago School
Summary
2. Theories of Ethnic Change and Persistence
2.1. Sorting Theories of Ethnic Change
Assimilation: The Melting Pot
Amalgamation: Conformity to a Dominant Group
Modified Assimilation
Modified Pluralism
The Ethnic Mosiac: Multicultural Pluralism
Conflict: The Dialectic of Incompatibles
2.2. Finding a Conceptual Model
Conformity-Pluralist Model
Voluntary and Involuntary Pluralism
Ethnic and Racial Conflict
2.3. Ideal Ethnic Types
The Tradition-Directed Ethnic
The Marginal
The Broker or Middleman
Summary
Part II: Providing an Empirical Context
3. A Demographic History
3.1. Immigration and Demography
Canadian Immigration Trends
Selection of Immigrants
Origin of Immigrants, 1926-80
Recent Leading Source Countries 1980-93
3.2. The Canadian Ethnic Population
Ethnic Population, 1871-1991
The Foreign-born Population
Rural-Urban Ethnic Distribution
3.3. Demographic Ethnic Types
The Aboriginals
The Charter Europeans
The Multi-European Entrance
Visible Third World Minorities
Summary
4. Multicultural Regionalism
4.1. Regionalism: A Sense of Place
Linguistic Demography
Original Cultural Ethos
4.2. Canadian Ethnic Regions
The Northlands: Multilingual and Multicultural
The Quebecois Heartland: Francophone and Multicultural
Atlantic Canada: Anglophone and Anglocultural
The Bilingual and Multicultural Belt
Upper Canada: Anglophone and Multicultural
The West: Multicultural and Anglophone
Summary
Part III: Dimensions of Identity and Solidarity
5. Language and the Quebec `Nation'
5.1. The Quebecois Setting
The Origin of New France
The Demographic and Regional Setting
The Development of Ideologies in Quebec
5.2.