Selling Illusions
The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada
Bissoondath, Neil
Publisher: Penguin, Toronto, Canada
Year First Published: {19911 Selling Illusions SELLING ILLUSIONS The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada Bissoondath, Neil Penguin Toronto Canada Since he immigrated to Canada, Neil Bissoondath has consistently refused the role of the ethnic, and sought to avoid the burden of hyphenation - a burden that would label him as an East Indian-Trinidadian-Canadian living in Quebec. Bissoondath argues that the policy of multiculturalism, with its emphasis on the former or ancestral homeland and its insistence that There is more important than Here, encourages stereotyping and division. 1994 2002 272pp $23 BC19911-SellingIllusions.jpg B Book 9780141006765 CX8407 1 false true false CX8407.htm [0xc00178e9f0 0xc0000ff2c0 0xc0008a41b0 0xc00064e480 0xc001131110] Cx}
Year Published: 2002
Pages: 272pp Price: $23 ISBN: 9780141006765
Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX8407
Since he immigrated to Canada, Neil Bissoondath has consistently refused the role of the ethnic, and sought to avoid the burden of hyphenation - a burden that would label him as an East Indian-Trinidadian-Canadian living in Quebec. Bissoondath argues that the policy of multiculturalism, with its emphasis on the former or ancestral homeland and its insistence that There is more important than Here, encourages stereotyping and division.
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