Toronto the Good?
Negotiating Race in the Diverse City
Published on 2. November 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
172 pages
978-1-4875-6053-9 (ISBN)
Description
Armed with the motto "Diversity Our Strength," the City of Toronto has garnered a world-class reputation for challenging racism, largely because of how it is seen to value and include racialized groups through its diversity policies and practices. Toronto the Good? unsettles popular depictions of both diversity and the City of Toronto by attending to what diversity does in and for the City in the context of historical relations of race.
Toronto the Good? brings together Shana Almeida's critical insights as a former political staff member along with her years of in-depth research on diversity in the City of Toronto to offer a compelling case to rethink how we understand diversity and racial inclusion in the City of Toronto and beyond. Initiated in a local context, Toronto the Good? critically contributes to global discussions on diversity, race, democracy, political participation, and power.
Toronto the Good? brings together Shana Almeida's critical insights as a former political staff member along with her years of in-depth research on diversity in the City of Toronto to offer a compelling case to rethink how we understand diversity and racial inclusion in the City of Toronto and beyond. Initiated in a local context, Toronto the Good? critically contributes to global discussions on diversity, race, democracy, political participation, and power.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
236 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4875-6053-9 (9781487560539)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Shana Almeida is an assistant professor in the School of Professional Communication at the Toronto Metropolitan University. Her research and teaching contributions are informed by over six years as a senior political staff member at the City of Toronto.
Content
1. The Diversification of Diversity
Toronto the Good: Critical Contexts
Toronto the Good: The Research Project
Organization of the Book
2. Theoretical Concepts
Racialization and Race
Abjection
Discourse, Power, Space
Belonging
On Diversity Discourse, Race, Belonging, and Space
3. Being Exceptional: Moving Diversity beyond Race
Embodying Progress: Equity, Inclusion, and Intersectionality
Moving beyond Race in Text
Not Seeing
Exceptional via the "Outside"
On Diversity and Racial Inclusion
4. Being Like No Other: Building Inside(r) Relations through Race
Anti-racism Like No Other
Diversity Like No Other
Invoking the Stereotype
On Being Like No Other: Final Thoughts
5. Being through Consultation
Consultation, Democracy, Diversity
Being through Commodification
Commodification through Re-circulation
Through Consultation: Final Thoughts
6. On Diversity Discourse and the Problem of Agency
Toronto the Good: Critical insights
On the Problem of Agency
References
Toronto the Good: Critical Contexts
Toronto the Good: The Research Project
Organization of the Book
2. Theoretical Concepts
Racialization and Race
Abjection
Discourse, Power, Space
Belonging
On Diversity Discourse, Race, Belonging, and Space
3. Being Exceptional: Moving Diversity beyond Race
Embodying Progress: Equity, Inclusion, and Intersectionality
Moving beyond Race in Text
Not Seeing
Exceptional via the "Outside"
On Diversity and Racial Inclusion
4. Being Like No Other: Building Inside(r) Relations through Race
Anti-racism Like No Other
Diversity Like No Other
Invoking the Stereotype
On Being Like No Other: Final Thoughts
5. Being through Consultation
Consultation, Democracy, Diversity
Being through Commodification
Commodification through Re-circulation
Through Consultation: Final Thoughts
6. On Diversity Discourse and the Problem of Agency
Toronto the Good: Critical insights
On the Problem of Agency
References