Interrogating the hyphen-nation : Canadian multicultural policy and "mixed race" identities

The research reveals how some of these women challenge Canadian multicultural policy the concept of nation as guides government policy and represented through Canada’s. [...] But the two nation concept obscures the idea of Refusing to be located outside of Multicultural Policy the nation, “mixed race” women nationhood for those who are not effectively produce their own and “Mixed Race” seen to be members of either of meaning of identity. [...] Background The phrase “mixed race” describes To link to the original report CERIS Since the implementation of Working Paper Series # 20 women who saw themselves as Canada’s multicultural policy in “mixed race” – or as multiracial, rary/Demographics/WP20_Mahtani.pdf 1971, the use of the hyphen to bicultural, biracial, multiethnic, indicate the marriage of e [...] The In this study participants whole geography and history of research illustrates how different emphasised the impossibility of explanation. [...] To counteract this, spite of the country’s diversity, Some “mixed race” women many women take on the given that when one questions challenge the ways they are identification of Canadian as an national borders, one also “othered” by the unitary notions of empowering label.