Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Immigration, Racial and Ethnic Studies in 150 Years of Canada / Shibao Guo and Lloyd Wong -- History of Canadian Immigration and Nation-Building -- Permanently Under Construction / Nelson Wiseman -- Who Are We? When Are We? / Henry Yu -- African Canadians / David Este -- The Komagata Through a Media Lens / Nilum Panesar , Yolande Pottie-Sherman and Rima Wilkes -- Situating Contemporary Canada -- A Demographic Overview of Ethnic Diversity in Canada / Lori Wilkinson -- Black Families and Socio-Economic Inequalities in Canada / Anne-Marie Livingstone and Morton Weinfeld -- Patterns of Integration, Identification and Participation Among Latin American Immigrants in Canada / Victor Armony -- What Do we Know About Research on Refugee Children and Youth Integration in Canada? / Paul Pritchard and Howard Ramos -- Revisiting Racial and Ethnic Studies in Canada -- Quo Vadis Canada? / Elke Winter and Adina Madularea -- Race and Racism by Pierre van den Berghe / Augie Fleras -- The Nature of Canadian Identity in the Context of Multiculturalism / Peter R. Grant and Daniel W. Robertson -- Religion in Canadian Ethnic Landscape / Abdolmohammad Kazemipur -- I am not a Problem, I am Canadian / Ayesha Mian Akram -- Prospects -- Canadian Exceptionalism / Augie Fleras -- The Future of Ethnic and Racial Studies / Vic Satzewich -- Back Matter -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

Canada’s history, since its birth as a nation one hundred and fifty years ago, is one of immigration, nation-building, and contested racial and ethnic relations. In Immigration, Racial and Ethnic Studies in 150 Years of Canada: Retrospects and Prospects scholars provide a wide-ranging overview of this history with a core theme being one of enduring racial and ethnic conflict and inequality. The volume is organized around four themes where in each theme selected racial and ethnic issues are examined critically. Part 1 focuses on the history of Canadian immigration and nation-building while Part 2 looks at situating contemporary Canada in terms of the debates in the literature on ethnicity and race. Part 3 revisits specific racial and ethnic studies in Canada and finally in Part 4 a state-of-the-art is provided on immigration and racial and ethnic studies while providing prospects for the future. Contributors are: Victor Armony, David Este, Augie Fleras, Peter R. Grant, Shibao Guo, Abdolmohammad Kazemipur, Anne-Marie Livingstone, Adina Madularea, Ayesha Mian Akram, Nilum Panesar, Yolande Pottie-Sherman, Paul Pritchard, Howard Ramos, Daniel W. Robertson, Vic Satzewich, Morton Weinfeld, Rima Wilkes, Lori Wilkinson, Elke Winter, Nelson Wiseman, Lloyd Wong, and Henry Yu.