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Acknowledgements ix
1 The Black Presence in Canada: A Multidisciplinary Perspective 1
Objective of the Book 5
Empirical and Theoretical Considerations 6
Organization of the Book 9
Notes 11
2 Conceptual Background 13
?Race? and Related Concepts 13
?Ethnicity? and Related Concepts 19
The Concepts of ?Black? and ?Visible Minority? 22
The Origins of Racial Antagonism 25
Racial Antagonism and Capitalism: The Enduring Debate 27
Racial Doctrines 30
Racism, Slavery, Colonialism, and Christianity: The Quadruple Web 33
Canada and the Black Societies of Africa and the Caribbean 39
Conclusion 41
Notes 43
3 The History of Blacks in Canada 45
Slavery and the Early Settlement of Blacks in Canada 46
Settlement in Atlantic and Central Canada 46
Settlement in Western Canada 53
Conclusion 56
Notes 57
4 The Geography of Blacks in Canada: Immigration and Spatial Distribution 59
Theories of International Migration 61
International Refugee Movements 64
Black Immigration to Canada: Underlying Factors 67
Blacks and Canada's Immigration Policy 69
The Spatial Distribution of Blacks 78
...across Canadian Provinces and Territories 80
...across Major Canadian Cities 82
Entanglements of Race, Space, and Class 90
Conclusion 92
Notes 92
5 Profiles of Selected Black Groups in Canada 95
Blacks in Contemporary Nova Scotia 95
Black Immigrant Groups in Canada 100
Leading Sources of Caribbean Immigrants 100
Jamaican Immigrants in Canada 104
Haitian Immigrants in Canada 111
Leading Sources of African Immigrants in Canada 118
Ghanaian Immigrants in Canada 122
Somali Immigrants in Canada 129
Conclusion 136
Notes 138
6 Blacks and the Canadian Labour Market 139
The Human Capital Theory 140
The Marxist Perspective 141
Labour Market Segmentation Theories 145
The Vertical Mosaic Thesis 146
Labour Market Characteristics of Blacks in Canada 150
Black Women and the Canadian Labour Market 159
The Plight of Blacks in the Canadian Labour Market 163
Conclusion 182
Notes 183
7 Blacks in Canadian Sport: Issues, Controversies, and Paradigm Shifts 185
Blacks' Historical Involvement in Canadian Sport 185
Stacking and Other Racial Manoeuvres in Sport 191
The Canadian Athlete Assistance Program (AAP) 194
Are Blacks Naturally Superior in Sport? 196
Conclusion 207
Notes 209
8 Official Multiculturalism and Blacks 211
Multiculturalism in Canada 212
Arguments For and Against Official Multiculturalism 216
The Case for Multiculturalism from the Perspectives of Blacks 234
Notes 237
Employment Equity and Blacks in Canada 240
Origins and Provisions 240
Underlying Assumptions and Concepts 242
Claims and Counter-claims 245
Conclusion 258
Notes 262
Bibliography 263
Index 288
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Paul Sidebottom
reviewed Black Canadians: History, Experience, Social Conditions on March 18, 2013
Black Canadians: History, Experience, Social Conditions
This is an incredibly hard and boring read! We are in the process of adoption and I grabbed this book at the library hoping to learn as much as I could about adoption, but this book gave me very little insight into the adopted child, adoption life, or parental roles in adoption. Also, I do not feel as though I have grown up in a racist era or area, so I grabbed this book thinking maybe there is something I was missing. The author is a white woman adopted into a white family. Also, she only talks about a time frame over 50 years ago. This makes me feel as though she doesn't really have the life experience or current facts to support any of her opinions. She only interviewed 22 trans-racial adoptees and I felt as though a lot of their quotes could be interpreted as more of an adoption identity issue rather than a race issue. I am totally annoyed at the fact that she throws around her opinion of what terms in an adoption or the relinquishment of a child means, and if I never see a "quoted" word in my life again it will be too soon.
The only good, well thought out parts in this book, are of her own life experiences. I would much rather have read an entire book about her adoption story with her own life experiences than listen to random thoughts she has about everything adoption and society related. I believe that God has driven my husband and me to everything in our life including adoption as part of his plan for us. Also the author said she didn't choose a side on adoption between different races, but from what I read she was pretty clear that people should only adopt children that fit the adoptive parent and birth parents exact mold (i.e. Her birth father was Jewish, so she should have been placed in a Jewish family). By that ideal situation no children would ever be adopted!
In short this book was hard to read, didn't help at all with my adoption, gave me little insight into real current racism, was poorly organized, and seemed very anti adoption. I would not recommend this to anyone and only read half of it before actually getting so upset that I couldn't finish it. I don't really want to finish reading a book that is so negative about adopting children.
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