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Juxtaposing a discussion of state policy with ideas of race and citizenship in Canadian civil society, Carmela K. Patrias shows how minority activists were able to bring national attention to racist employment discrimination during the Second World War and obtain official condemnation of such discrimination.

Table of Contents
Introduction PART ONE: Invidious Distinctions * Employment Discrimination and State Complicity PART TWO Discrimination Is Sabotage: Minority Accommodation, Protest and Resistance * Jews * Other Racialized Citizens * The Disenfranchised PART THREE: Ambivalent Allies: Anglo-Saxon Critics of Discrimination * Mainstream Critics and the Burden of Inherited Ideas * Labour and the Left PART FOUR: Anglo-Saxon Guardianship * Anglo-Saxon Guardianship Conclusion

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      Publisher: University of Toronto Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 13/03/2012
      ISBN13: 9781442642362, 978-1442642362
      ISBN10: 144264236X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Juxtaposing a discussion of state policy with ideas of race and citizenship in Canadian civil society, Carmela K. Patrias shows how minority activists were able to bring national attention to racist employment discrimination during the Second World War and obtain official condemnation of such discrimination.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction PART ONE: Invidious Distinctions * Employment Discrimination and State Complicity PART TWO Discrimination Is Sabotage: Minority Accommodation, Protest and Resistance * Jews * Other Racialized Citizens * The Disenfranchised PART THREE: Ambivalent Allies: Anglo-Saxon Critics of Discrimination * Mainstream Critics and the Burden of Inherited Ideas * Labour and the Left PART FOUR: Anglo-Saxon Guardianship * Anglo-Saxon Guardianship Conclusion

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