Author: Carmela Patrias
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773511743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Hungarian immigrants' status as foreigners and their disadvantageous class position prevented them from gaining power in Canadian society, forcing them to rely almost exclusively on ideologies and institutions within their own communities to better their situation. Focusing on the social and cultural dimensions of immigrant politics, Carmela Patrias places the Hungarian situation within the larger context of immigration history.
Author: Daniel R. Meister
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228009979
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Canada is often considered a multicultural mosaic, welcoming to immigrants and encouraging of cultural diversity. Yet this reputation masks a more complex history. In this groundbreaking study of the pre-history of Canadian multiculturalism, Daniel Meister shows how the philosophy of cultural pluralism normalized racism and the entrenchment of whiteness. 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. On the fiftieth anniversary of Canada's official policy of multiculturalism, The Racial Mosaic represents the first serious and sustained attempt to detail the policy's historical antecedents, compelling readers to consider how racism has structured Canada's settler-colonial society.
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Category : Hungarians
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Author: University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center
Publisher: Regina : Canadian Plains Research Center
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Author: Steven Béla Várdy
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Twelve articles on Hungarian American history, including four on Louis Kossuth's tumultuous mid-19th-century visit to the United States following the defeat of the Revolution of 1848-1849; two articles on the political activities of Hungarian Americans during and immediately after World War II, wherein an attempt is made to try to explain Hungary's alliance with Nazi Germany; and one article each on sub-topics of Hungarian American history in general such as the relationship of Hungarian Americans to the mother country since the mid-19th century, the changing image and self-image of Hungarian Americans during the same period, the question of dual and multiple identity from the vantage point of Hungarian Americans, the fate of Hungarian victims of the steel mills and coal mines of early 20th-century Western Pennsylvania as portrayed in contemporary poetry, and the unfortunate relationship between Hungarians and Slovaks in turn-of-the-century America.
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Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Author: Watson Kirkconnell
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487592663
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Watson Kirkconnell is one of the most familiar figures in the world of Canadian letters. Educated at Queen's and Oxford, he has published several volumes of poetry and poetry translations, was the founding father and first chairman of the Humanities Research Council, a charter member and national president (1942-44, 1956-58) of the Canadian Authors Association, and has shared in university life for 45 years. He has been active in many other areas of public life; as one of the founders of the Prisoners' Aid Society (now the John Howard Society of Manitoba), a joint organizer of the Citizenship Branch, Ottawa, a founder and first president of the Canadian-Polish Society, as well as the Baptist Federation of Canada of which he was national president (1953-56). In widespread recognition of his work in these many fields Dr. Kirkonnell has received twelve honorary doctorates from universities in Canada, the United States, Hungary, and Germany, knighthoods from Poland and Iceland, and numerous awards from other countries. The chronicle of such a full and active career offers a valuable look at many aspects of Canadian life: in his memoirs Dr. Kirkonnell has avoided a merely chronological arrangement of his autobiography but sought rather to take various phases of the Canadian tradition and to analyse his experience of each down through the years. This Slice of Canada demonstrates the author's discerning faculty of observation and his close involvement, not only with the arts, but with education, religion, politics and other areas of Canadian life.
Author: Steven Béla Várdy
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Ch. 8 (pp. 99-134), "The Origins of Jewish Emancipation in Hungary: The Role of Baron Joseph Eötvös", reviews the situation of Jews during the 18th-early 19th centuries in Habsburg Hungary and mentions discriminatory anti-Jewish measures, partly abolished in the beginning of the 19th century. Attributes the rise of popular anti-Jewish feelings and antisemitic manifestations to the great influx of Galician immigrants. Discusses debates in the Hungarian Diet on the emancipation of the Jews (approved in 1867) and emphasizes the uniqueness of Baron Eotvos' constant struggle, in the press and in parliamentary discussions, to grant Hungarian Jews full civil rights. Summarizes the main ideas of Eötvös' essay "The Emancipation of the Jews" (1840), in which he refuted the moral, religious, and ethnic anti-Jewish allegations expressed by his opponents.
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Category : Hungary
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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