Multiculturalism within a bilingual framework language, race, and belonging in Canada /
Haque, Eve.
Multiculturalism within a bilingual framework language, race, and belonging in Canada / Eve Haque. - Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2012. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2012). - 1 online resource (309 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: 'I'm talking language' -- Language, nation and race: framing the inquiry -- Historical context -- Preliminary hearings and report -- Public hearings and research -- Book I: the official languages -- Book IV: the cultural contribution of the other ethnic groups -- Conclusion: the impossibility of multiculturalism? -- Appendix: the terms of reference.
"From the time of its inception in Canada, multiculturalism has generated varied reactions, none more starkly than between French and English Canadians. In this groundbreaking new work, Eve Haque examines the Government of Canada's attempt to forge a national policy of unity based on 'multiculturalism within a bilingual framework, ' a formulation that emerged out of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (1963-70). Uncovering how the policies of bilingualism and multiculturalism are inextricably linked, Haque investigates the ways in which they operate together as part of our contemporary national narrative to favour the language and culture of Canada's two 'founding nations' at the expense of other groups. Haque uses previously overlooked archival material, including transcripts of royal commission hearings, memos, and reports, to reveal the conflicts underlying the emergence of this ostensibly seamless policy. By integrating two important areas of scholarly concern --
9781442660892 9781442686083
Multiculturalism--Canada.
Bilingualism--Canada.
Language policy--Canada.
Language and culture--Canada.
Electronic Books.
F1035 / .M858 2012
Multiculturalism within a bilingual framework language, race, and belonging in Canada / Eve Haque. - Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2012. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2012). - 1 online resource (309 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: 'I'm talking language' -- Language, nation and race: framing the inquiry -- Historical context -- Preliminary hearings and report -- Public hearings and research -- Book I: the official languages -- Book IV: the cultural contribution of the other ethnic groups -- Conclusion: the impossibility of multiculturalism? -- Appendix: the terms of reference.
"From the time of its inception in Canada, multiculturalism has generated varied reactions, none more starkly than between French and English Canadians. In this groundbreaking new work, Eve Haque examines the Government of Canada's attempt to forge a national policy of unity based on 'multiculturalism within a bilingual framework, ' a formulation that emerged out of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (1963-70). Uncovering how the policies of bilingualism and multiculturalism are inextricably linked, Haque investigates the ways in which they operate together as part of our contemporary national narrative to favour the language and culture of Canada's two 'founding nations' at the expense of other groups. Haque uses previously overlooked archival material, including transcripts of royal commission hearings, memos, and reports, to reveal the conflicts underlying the emergence of this ostensibly seamless policy. By integrating two important areas of scholarly concern --
9781442660892 9781442686083
Multiculturalism--Canada.
Bilingualism--Canada.
Language policy--Canada.
Language and culture--Canada.
Electronic Books.
F1035 / .M858 2012