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...representations ethnic minorities within the Canadian context. While these issues have been debated for years, Jiwani's approach is refreshingly different, in that it jolts the reader out of complacency regarding Canada's role as a tolerant and inclusive nation. The book aims to reveal the ways in which the interface among race, gender, and violence are misrepresented in the media by challenging the insidious distinction between the White (capitalized as Jiwani explains, "to rupture the normativity" associated with the social construction of race; p. xix) dominant majority constituted as "real" Canadians, and the "Others," i.e., people of colour, who by virtue of their...
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