The Racial Mosaic: A Pre-history of Canadian Multiculturalism

How and why Canada came to celebrate - and exclude - certain "races" before the era of official multiculturalism.

The Racial Mosaic demonstrates how cultural pluralism in Canada was founded upon, and easily coexisted with, settler colonialism and racism. Looking at how Canadians interpreted diversity before multiculturalism became official policy, it compels readers to consider how racism has structured Canada's settler-colonial society.