Racism in Canada

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This paper looks at how there are two strands of thought that are found in the findings of researchers on racism in Canadian society. On one hand, some researchers have found evidence that Canada has been racist in the past and still has an ugly problem with racism. On the other hand, other researchers, while they admit that some terrible incidents have taken place in the past, argue that Canada has made great strides, and in taking an official stand for multiculturalism will continue to make life better for minorities because Canada is committed to racial progress. The paper then examines the conflict between the findings of the two groups and attempts to answer the question of whether Canada is a racist country.

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Racism in Canada

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"In an article titled "Talking Race," (Gosine, 2003) Alternatives Journal asks why Canadians are not more interested in environmental racism. Discriminatory environmental planning practices have resulted in toxic waste sites being placed in areas where poor people and minorities live. The United States has come up with legislation to protect minority communities, and some court victories have occurred there as a result of the credibility of environmentalist claims. "But in Canada, there has been comparatively little activity to report," the author states (p. 3). This is despite the fact that clean water is all too often inaccessible in Indigenous communities and various researchers and organizations have found much evidence of environmental racism--planning decision in Nova Scotia, for example, which Denise Allen reviewed and reported. "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Backhouse, C. (1999). Colour-coded: A legal history of racism in Canada, 1900-1950. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
• Chan, A. (2001). "Glorious and free:" One young woman's hope for a racism-free Canada. Canadian Woman Studies, 20 (4), 145-148.
• Colour-coded: A legal history of racism in Canada, 1900-1950 (2001). McGill Law Journal, 46 (4), 1175-1177.
• Gosine, A. (2003). Talking race: Confronting environmental racism in Canada). Alternatives Journal, 29 (1), 3-4.
• Hepburn, S. A.. (1999). Following the north star: Canada as a haven for nineteenth-century American blacks. Michigan Historical Review, 25 (2), 91-127.

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