Our second featured book is A Space for Race: Decoding Racism, Multiculturalism, and Postcolonialism in the Quest for Belonging in Canada and Beyond by Kathy Hogarth and Wendy Fletcher, which explores how race and racialization create tensions between groups and solidify the exclusion of the “other” in Canadian society.
The book explores the various themes of racism, multiculturalism, and post-colonialism and the ongoing tensions, challenges, and inconsistencies around race relations embedded within policy and practice in Canada. It traces the history of race relations and ensuing tensions from encounter to modern day and offers a broad, yet nuanced historical sketch of Indigenous and racialized ethnic groups that make up the Canadian landscape.