Author: Wiktor Turek
Publisher: Toronto, Polish Alliance P
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Category : POLISH NEWSPAPERS CANADA
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Author: Patryk Polec
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773582088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Polish Canadians typically identify themselves as stringent anti-Communists, a label solidified by the legacies of the 1980s Solidarity movement, its founder Lech Walesa, and the widespread anti-Communist riots that helped topple the Communist regime in 1989. Hurrah Revolutionaries challenges this common perception by examining the Polish immigrant community in Canada and the development of radical and traditionally "deviant" ideologies during the interwar period until the end of the Second World War. Patryk Polec unveils a versatile, well-funded, and influential Polish pro-Communist movement with a talented leadership that worked tirelessly to persuade traditionally conservative and religious immigrants to adopt an ideology that was anti-nationalist and atheist. He traces the roots of socialist support in Poland, its transplantation to Canada where the movement enjoyed its greatest support, the challenges the movement faced within an ethnic community influenced by Catholicism, and the complications caused by its links to the Communist International. Polec offers a deeper understanding of the ways in which the Communist Party was able to appeal to certain ethnic groups through cultural outreach as well as its complicated and often counter-productive relationship with the Soviet Union. Grounded in recently declassified Polish consular documents and RCMP surveillance reports, Hurrah Revolutionaries is the first full-length study of Polish Communists in Canada, a group that constituted a substantial portion of the country’s socialist left in the twentieth century.

Author: Daniel R. Meister
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228009987
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341

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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.

Author: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library
Publisher: Greenwood-Heinemann Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 814

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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 896

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Author: Paul Aubin
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 768

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Author: Paul Aubin
Publisher: Institut québecois de la recherche sur la culture
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 792

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Category : Slavic philology
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Author: Olga Bernice Bishop
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union Ontario
Languages : en
Pages : 852

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Author: Jaroslav B. Rudnycʹkyj
Publisher:
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Category : Slavic philology
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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