This course examines the past and present settlement patterns of those of Italian descent in Canada, in rural areas and cities, including increasing suburbanization. Students will address issues such as work and employment and political participation. Challenges and opportunities will be examined, with respect to issues such as migration, community-building, belonging, and discrimination. Students will also gain a critical understanding of how racialized communities resist racism. Specific topics may include social construction, phenotyping, power, privilege, intersectionality, Indigeneity, Blackness, Asianness, whiteness, decolonization, diaspora, relationality, anti-racism, solidarity, allyship, and coalitions. Issues addressed include Indigeneity and nation to nation relations, evolving formations of identity, belonging, and citizenship, and intersections of sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, and faith. Theoretical concepts introduced include settler colonialism and decolonization, immigration and diaspora, nationalism and multiculturalism, memory and reclamation, activism and resistance.
This course examines the past and present settlement patterns of those of Italian descent in Canada, in rural areas and cities, including increasing suburbanization. Students will address issues such as work and employment and political participation. Challenges and opportunities will be examined, with respect to issues such as migration, community-building, belonging, and discrimination. Students will also gain a critical understanding of how racialized communities resist racism. Specific topics may include social construction, phenotyping, power, privilege, intersectionality, Indigeneity, Blackness, Asianness, whiteness, decolonization, diaspora, relationality, anti-racism, solidarity, allyship, and coalitions. Issues addressed include Indigeneity and nation to nation relations, evolving formations of identity, belonging, and citizenship, and intersections of sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, and faith. Theoretical concepts introduced include settler colonialism and decolonization, immigration and diaspora, nationalism and multiculturalism, memory and reclamation, activism and resistance.
