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Book SynopsisArmed with the motto Diversity Our Strength, the City of Toronto has garnered a world-class reputation for challenging racism, largely because of how it is seen to value and include racialized groups through its diversity policies and practices. Toronto the Good? unsettles popular depictions of both diversity and the City of Toronto by attending to what diversity does in and for the City in the context of historical relations of race.
Toronto the Good? brings together Shana Almeida’s critical insights as a former political staff member along with her years of in-depth research on diversity in the City of Toronto to offer a compelling case to rethink how we understand diversity and racial inclusion in the City of Toronto and beyond. Initiated in a local context, Toronto the Good? critically contributes to global discussions on diversity, race, democracy, political participation, and power.
Table of Contents1. The Diversification of Diversity Toronto the Good: Critical Contexts Toronto the Good: The Research Project Organization of the Book 2. Theoretical Concepts Racialization and Race Abjection Discourse, Power, Space Belonging On Diversity Discourse, Race, Belonging, and Space 3. Being Exceptional: Moving Diversity beyond Race Embodying Progress: Equity, Inclusion, and Intersectionality Moving beyond Race in Text Not Seeing Exceptional via the “Outside” On Diversity and Racial Inclusion 4. Being Like No Other: Building Inside(r) Relations through Race Anti-racism Like No Other Diversity Like No Other Invoking the Stereotype On Being Like No Other: Final Thoughts 5. Being through Consultation Consultation, Democracy, Diversity Being through Commodification Commodification through Re-circulation Through Consultation: Final Thoughts 6. On Diversity Discourse and the Problem of Agency Toronto the Good: Critical insights On the Problem of Agency References
