Multiculturalism Within A Bilingual Framework

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Multiculturalism Within a Bilingual Framework

Author: Eve Haque
language: en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date: 2012-01-01
"From the time of its inception in Canada, multiculturalism has generated varied reactions, none more starkly than between French and English Canadians. In this groundbreaking new work, Eve Haque examines the Government of Canada's attempt to forge a national policy of unity based on 'multiculturalism within a bilingual framework, ' a formulation that emerged out of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (1963-70). Uncovering how the policies of bilingualism and multiculturalism are inextricably linked, Haque investigates the ways in which they operate together as part of our contemporary national narrative to favour the language and culture of Canada's two 'founding nations' at the expense of other groups. Haque uses previously overlooked archival material, including transcripts of royal commission hearings, memos, and reports, to reveal the conflicts underlying the emergence of this ostensibly seamless policy. By integrating two important areas of scholarly concern -- the evolution and articulation of language rights in Canada, and the history of multiculturalism in the country, Haque provides powerful insight into ongoing asymmetries between Canada's various cultural and linguistic groups."--Publisher's website.
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Multiculturalism Within a Bilingual Framework

This thesis examines the emergence of "multiculturalism within a bilingual framework" as the national formulation for the racial ordering of difference and belonging through language. As the 1960's began, a confluence of events resulted in challenges to the existing Anglo-Celtic dominant national narrative of belonging, and the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (1963-1970) became the "apparatus" through which the federal government addressed these contestations. This thesis argues that at this particular historical juncture, the need to rearticulate the formulation for nation building and national belonging meant a decisive shift onto the terrain of language and culture to organize and maintain a white settler hegemony while also disavowing racial and ethnic exclusions. ...