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Apr
21
BOOK TALK | Daniel R. Meister - The Racial Mosaic: A Pre-History of Canadian Multiculturalism
Thursday, April 21st, 20229:00 - 10:30 PM EDT
DETAILS AND REGISTRATION
Join Daniel R. Meister for an online book talk about The Racial Mosaic: A Pre-History of Canadian Multiculturalism.
Free for members and $5 for non-members. Reserve your ticket here:
https://www.whyte.org/tickets?fbclid=IwAR2r2jbTXT9ZXvma6Q--JhbXCBQcD6l1RYuXv2x_THzqIzHhKc7xLK54Wno
Daniel R. Meister is an instructor in the Department of History and Politics at the University of New Brunswick (Saint John).
about the book
The Racial Mosaic demonstrates how early ideas about cultural diversity in Canada were founded upon, and coexisted with, settler colonialism and racism, despite the apparent tolerance of a variety of immigrant peoples and their cultures. To trace the development of these ideas, Meister takes a biographical approach, examining the lives and work of three influential public intellectuals whose thoughts on cultural pluralism circulated widely beginning in the 1920s: Watson Kirkconnell, a university professor and translator; Robert England, an immigration expert with Canadian National Railways; and John Murray Gibbon, a publicist for the Canadian Pacific Railway. While they all proposed variants of the idea that immigrants to Canada should be allowed to retain certain aspects of their cultures, their tolerance had very real limits. In their personal, corporate, and government-sponsored works, only the cultures of "white" European immigrants were considered worthy of inclusion.
