This book explores the impact of unquestioned racial assumptions in the Canadian narrative that have constructed an insider/outsider culture. From that baseline, authors then develop an analytic designed to move beyond racialized othering to a society of genuine inclusivity and universal belonging.

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Cover; A Space for Race; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Overview of the Book; About the Authors; Introduction: On the Merits of Belonging and Unbelonging; Kathy's Story; Wendy's Story; Making the Personal Political; 1. Race, Racism, and Anti-​Racism in Canada; History of Racism in Western Culture and Canadian Immigration; Canadian Context; Canada's Black History; New Immigrants and Refugees; Muslim and Arab Canadians; Change in the Legal Arena; Anti-​Racism; 2. What's Post About Colonialism; Canada and Colonization in Historical Perspective. First Nations and Colonization in CanadaBroad 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; Conclusion; 3. Belonging and Diaspora; Understanding 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; 4. Canadian Multiculturalism; Black Canadians Antisemitism and the Story of Jewish CanadaRacialized Antisemitism; Jewish Immigration; The Tenor of Canadian Antisemitism; A History of Arabs in Canada; Islamophobia; Difference, Belonging, and Multiculturalism; 5. Moving Toward Belonging; First Nations Communities: An Exception That Proves the Rule; Black Communities; Jewish Communities; Chinese Communities; Japanese Communities; Arab and Muslim Communities; Expressions of Racism in a New Key; Notes; References; Index