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Toronto the Good?
Negotiating Race in the Diverse City
Shana Almeida (Author)
9781487504274
Hardback, published 23 November 2022
172 pages
23.5 x 15.9 x 1.5 cm, 0.34 kg
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.
1. The Diversification of Diversity 2. Theoretical Concepts 3. Being Exceptional: Moving Diversity beyond Race 4. Being Like No Other: Building Inside(r) Relations through Race 5. Being through Consultation 6. On Diversity Discourse and the Problem of Agency References
Toronto the Good: Critical Contexts
Toronto the Good: The Research Project
Organization of the Book
Racialization and Race
Abjection
Discourse, Power, Space
Belonging
On Diversity Discourse, Race, Belonging, and Space
Embodying Progress: Equity, Inclusion, and Intersectionality
Moving beyond Race in Text
Not Seeing
Exceptional via the "Outside"
On Diversity and Racial Inclusion
Anti-racism Like No Other
Diversity Like No Other
Invoking the Stereotype
On Being Like No Other: Final Thoughts
Consultation, Democracy, Diversity
Being through Commodification
Commodification through Re-circulation
Through Consultation: Final Thoughts
Toronto the Good: Critical insights
On the Problem of Agency