Challenging Canadian multiculturalism

Challenging the Public Denial of Racism for a Deeper Multiculturalism

Second-generation youth's belief in the myth of Canadian multiculturalism.

Second-generation youth in Toronto, growing up in low-income neighbourhoods, interact primarily with other racialized and ethnicized people. Within this environment they do not experience racial prejudice or discrimination, appreciate the cultural diversity around them, and attribute it to Canada's ideology of multiculturalism. However, they are beginning to realize their own subjectivity in re...

Common Principles and Multiculturalism

Judgment on rightness and wrongness of beliefs and behaviors is a main issue in bioethics. Over centuries, big philosophers and ethicists have been discussing the suitable tools to determine which act is morally sound and which one is not. Emerging the contemporary bioethics in the West has resulted in a misconception that absolute westernized principles would be appropriate tools for ethical d...

Multiculturalism without Culture

This book’s oxymoronic title already encapsulates the core idea forwarded by the author, a leading figure in feminist political theory, although it would have been easier to capture had culture been placed between quotation marks. For it is a multiculturalism shaped by certain notions of culture that Phillips declines: she endorses neither essentialist views of monolithic cultures nor the oppos...

Must Interculturalists misrepresent multiculturalism?

Statements of and advocacy for interculturalism always seems to begin with a critique of multiculturalism and aspire to offer a new and alternative paradigm of diversity and citizenship. With particular reference to a recent publication, which marks the current state of the art debate between the two 'isms', I suggest that the critique is often not based on an engagement with multiculturalist a...