Disrupting the Mantra of Multiculturalism

Hate Crime in Canada

Bibliographic Data

ID4774166
AuthorsBarbara Perry (Ontario Tech University, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume59
Issue13
Pages1637-1654
Publication date2015-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764215588816
OpenAlexW2443549945
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited14

While Canada proclaims itself to be among the most diverse and inclusive nations, the persistence of hate crime challenges this vision. The "myth of multiculturalism" is laid bare by exclusionary acts of harassment and violence. This article traces the tropes of multiculturalism before assessing the ways in which bias-motivated violence reveals the fissures in this facade. Optimistically, however, it concludes with a consideration of the unintended constructive impacts of ongoing patterns of hostility. That is, the rhetoric of multiculturalism still has some capacity to provide a foundation for critical discourse inspired by victimization

Aesthetics · Constructive · Criminology · Environmental ethics · Harassment · Hostility · Mantra · Multiculturalism · Political science · Rhetoric · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology

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