{"product_id":"strange-fruit-race-racial-profiling-and-the-myth-of-official-multiculturalism-in-the-canadian-imaginary-9783639044027","title":"Strange Fruit - Race, Racial Profiling, and the Myth of Official Multiculturalism in the Canadian Imaginary","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Rawle Agard\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterrogating the idea of race and its place within the discourse of official multiculturalism in the Canadian context, Rawle Agard investigates how race has been coded in popular media through a critical look at news articles from the Toronto Star's coverage of: Philippe Rushton, human genome research, and racial profiling practiced by the Toronto Police Service. Although popular Canadian media appears, ostensibly, to be critical of racism, a closer examination of these articles reveals that it, nonetheless, maintains and perpetuates dominant perceptions of race as both an objective genetic entity and a permanent category extant to culture. Combining the semiotics of myth and tools derived from critical discourse analysis, Rawle reveals that a conservative racialized narrative lies beneath the liberal veneer of multiculturalism as a contemporary myth in Canadian nation-building. Moreover, racialized relations of power emergant trough the continuity of Canada's nation-building project from its colonial past to its liberal present is exposed. In spite of itself, then, Canada's colonial present, though officially multicultural, continues to bear very strange fruit: a racism de facto.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47611141587095,"sku":"9783639044027","price":6271.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783639044027.webp?v=1775069387","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/strange-fruit-race-racial-profiling-and-the-myth-of-official-multiculturalism-in-the-canadian-imaginary-9783639044027","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}