Rethinking Who We Are

Critical Reflections on Human Diversity in Canada

edited by Jessica E. Pulis and Paul U. Angelini

Rethinking Who We Are takes a non-conventional approach to understanding human difference in Canada.

Contributors to this volume critically re-examine Canadian identity by rethinking who we are and what we are becoming by scrutinizing the “totality” of difference. Included are analyses on the macro differences among Canadians, such as the disparities produced from unequal treatment under Canadian law, human rights legislation and health care. Contributors also explore the diversities that are often treated in a non-traditional manner on the bases of gender, class, sexuality, disAbility and Indigeniety. Finally, the ways in which difference is treated in Canada’s legal system, literature and the media are explored with an aim to challenge existing orthodoxy and push readers to critically examine their beliefs and ideas, particularly in an age where divisive, racist and xenophobic politics and attitudes are resurfacing.

key content highlights

Why Study Human Diversity in Canada? • Human Rights and the Law: Diversity and Disadvantage

• Regionalism: Geography

Meets Social-Psychology • Concepts of Health, Illness and Disease: A Cross-Cultural

Perspective • Race and Ethnicity: Difference and Diversity

• Indigenous Storytelling:

Ethics and Resistance

• Social Inequality:

Diversity and Social Stratification

• Gender

Issues in Canada: Evolution and Revolution

• Governing Sexualities: Interrogating Settler

Sexualities in Canada • Impairment and Disability: The Social Perspective jessica pulis, professor of criminology, is the contributing editor of Social and Behavioural Sciences: Exploring Human Behaviour and the Social Environment, along with Paul Angelini. paul angelini is a professor of political science and the contributing editor of Our Society: Human Diversity in Canada.

• Diverse

Voices: Critical Perspectives in Canadian

Contexts • Literature: Voices of Diversity in Canadian Literature

• Canada’s News

Media: The Crisis of Diverse Quality aoda; appropriation; Asian immigrants; Atwood; biomedicine; blm; decolonization; compulsory heterosexuality; homosexuality; policing

Paperback • 9781773635200

$24.00 • March 2022

Digital Formats • $23.99

5.5 x 8.5" • 270 pp

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