Before Official Multiculturalism : Women’s Pluralism in Toronto, 1950s-1970s /

"For almost two decades before Canada officially adopted multiculturalism in 1971, a large network of women and their allies in Toronto were promoting pluralism as a city--and nation-building project. Before Official Multiculturalism assesses women as liberal pluralist advocates and activists,...

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Main Author: Iacovetta, Franca, 1957- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : University of Toronto Press, 2022.
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505 0 |a The Case Study -- The Scholarship -- Toronto Counsellors and International Institute Social Work Theory and Practice -- Professionals, Narrative, and Gendered Middle-Class Subjectivities -- Marital Conflict, Emotions, and "De-culturalizing" Violence -- Generational Conflict: Intimacy, Money, and "Mini-Skirt" Feminism -- Making Multicultural Community at the Institute -- Community Projects for Rural Villagers: Health and Occupational Training -- Food as Charity, Community-Building, and Cosmopolitanism on a Budget -- Immigrant Gifts, Pluralist Spectacles, and Staging the Modern City and Nation -- Handicrafts, High Art, and Human Rights: Cultural Guardianship and Internationalism. 
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520 |a "For almost two decades before Canada officially adopted multiculturalism in 1971, a large network of women and their allies in Toronto were promoting pluralism as a city--and nation-building project. Before Official Multiculturalism assesses women as liberal pluralist advocates and activists, critically examining the key roles they played as community organizers, frontline social workers, and promoters of ethnic festivals. The book explores women's community-based activism in support of a liberal pluralist vision of multiculturalism thorough an analysis of the International Institute of Metropolitan Toronto, a postwar agency that sought to integrate newcomers into the mainstream and promote cultural diversity. Drawing on the rich records of the institute, as well as the massive International Institutes collection in Minnesota, the book situates Toronto within its Canadian and North American contexts and addresses the flawed mandate to integrate immigrants and refugees into an increasingly diverse city. Franca Iacovetta investigates the contradictions between the activists' desire to celebrate and build ethnic diversity on one hand, and their project of Canadian nation-building on the other. Drawing lessons from the history of the Toronto International Institute, Before Official Multiculturalism engages with national and international debates to provide a critical analysis of women's pluralism in Canada."--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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