A Space for Race

Kathy Hogarth, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Renison University College, University of Waterloo. As a cultural theorist, she has been actively engaged through research, practice, and teaching in the critical examination of race relations and related discourse. Wendy Fletcher, PhD, is Professor of Religious Studies and Social Work at Renison University College, University of Waterloo. As a historian she has explored the intersection of religion and culture in the West with particular reference to Christianity and movements for social change. Most recently, she has worked in the area of the impact of colonization on Indigenous peoples in the Americas and the history of race in Canada.

Introduction
On the Merits of Belonging and Un-Belonging
Kathy's Story
Wendy's Story

Chapter 1: Race, Racism, and Antiracism in Canada
History of Racism in Western Culture and Canadian Immigration
Canadian Context
New Immigrants and Refugees
Muslim and Arab Canadians
Anti-Racism

Chapter 2: What's Post About Colonialism?
Canada and Colonization in Historical Perspective
First Nations and Colonization in Canada
Broad Limitations of the Indian Act
Criminalization of Indigenous Culture
Reserve Lands: An Exercise in Containment and Control
Education as an Assimilationist Tool
Colonial Reproductions: The Methods of Reinvention
Canadian Policies
Academia and the Colonial Mission of Enlightenment
Western Feminist Discourse as a Colonial Marker
Conclusion

Chapter 3: Belonging and Diaspora
Space and Social Imaginary
Immigration and Other Laws Defining Space by Race
The Lens
The Chinese Experience
The Japanese Experience
The Black Experience
Challenges of Diaspora
Shifting Notions of Diaspora
Conclusion

Chapter 4: Canadian Multiculturalism
Black Canadians
Anti-Semitism and the Story of Jewish Canada
Racialized Anti-Semitism
Jewish Immigration
The Tenor of Canadian Anti-Semitism
A History of Arabs in Canada
Islamophobia
Difference, Belonging, and Multiculturalism

Chapter 5: Moving Towards Belonging
First Nations Communities: An Exception that Proves the Rule
Black Communities
A History of Black Resistance
Jewish Communities
Chinese Communities
Japanese Communities
Arabs and Muslims Communities
Expressions of Racism in a New Key

References
Index