Multiculturalism and the History of Canadian Diversity. (Book Reviews).(Book Review) From: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology | Date: August 1, 2002| Author: Little, William | COPYRIGHT 2002 Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Assn. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

RICHARD J.F. DAY, Multiculturalism and the History of Canadian Diversity. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000, 288 p.

After the lengthy digestion of contemporary European social and political thought in Canadian graduate seminars over the last 20 years, it is remarkable how few sustained and theoretically informed inquiries into forms of Canadian social life have been produced. Richard Day's Multiculturalism and the History of Canadian Diversity is one of those fe...

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