On the Other Hand

1.  Introduction Part I: Setting the Stage 2. Signs of the times: A very brief overview 2.1 Age of rage? 2.2 A Canadian exception? 2.3 Persistent challenges: Racism and discrimination in Canada 2.4 Conclusion 3. Four concepts 3.1 The state 3.2 Policy 3.3 Culture 3.4 Multiculturalism 3.5 Summary: Concepts and the traps of language Part II: On the Writing of the Progressive Critics 4. Some mysterious claims in the writing of progressive critics 5. Other features in the writing of progressive critics 5.1 The homogenous ethnic majority 5.2 Policy and society 5.3 Dialectical and undialectical analysis 5.4 Alternatives? 5.5 Reflections on possible political effects Part III: Past and Present 6. Why multiculturalism? 6.1 Multiculturalism: A “simple story” 6.2 A critical progressive story 6.3 Assessing the critical progressive story 6.4 A white supremacy state? 6.5 Multiculturalism and the capitalist state: An alternative story 6.6 Just-so stories? 7. Multiculturalism within a bilingual framework? 7.1 Contemporary arguments and debates 7.2 The B.&B. Commission response and its contradictions 7.3 Justifications 7.4 Conclusion Part IV: Yes, But... 8. On tolerance (and other “gross concepts”) 8.1 Critiques of tolerance 8.2 The concept of tolerance 8.3 Response to critiques 8.4 Conclusion 9. Multiculturalism as psychic prop 9.1 Introduction: Material and ideal interests 9.2 An assortment of claims 9.3 Us, them, and others 9.4 Parliamentary multiculturalism discourse 9.5 Conclusion 10. Of masks, nations, and nationalism 10.1 On masks and ideology 10.2 Of nations and national pride 10.3 Concluding thoughts 11. Conclusion 11.1 Society and our attempts to understand it 11.2 On progressive thought and writing  11.3 Multiculturalism: Concluding thoughts Notes Works Cited