Unequal Relations: A Critical Introduction to Racism, Gender, Immigration, and Coloniality, 9th edition

Published by Pearson Canada (18 July 2024) © 2025

  • Augie Fleras University of Waterloo
  • Rai Reece Toronto Metropolitan University
6-month accessISBN-13: 9780138061012 | Published 2024Expires: 11 Feb 2027

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Title overview

Unequal Relations: A Critical Introduction to Racism, Gender, Immigration, and Coloniality is the market-leading, single-voice text for Race and Ethnicity courses in Canada. Few other countries are confronted with such a dazzling array of deep and multilayered diversities, including: Indigenous Peoples; national-minorities, namely, the Quebecois; and immigrant, refugee, and racialized groups

Unequal Relations animating logic remains steadfast namely, the importance of analyzing race immigration, and Indigeneity as fundamentally unequal relations with respect to how these relations of inequality are created, expressed, and maintained, as well as challenged and transformed by way of minority protest, government policy, ideological shifts, and institutional reform. The assumptions behind this theme remain as relevant as ever in a Canada where race continues to matter; racism remains a deeply embedded feature; and gendered and racialized inequalities persist.

Table of contents

  1. Rethinking Realities, Reframing Issues
  2. Race Matters
  3. Racisms and Anti-racism
  4. Racial Inequalities, Racialized Exclusions
  5. Gendered Exclusions: Indigenous and Racialized Women
  6. Canada’s Injustice System
  7. Indigenous Peoples: Resetting the Relationship
  8. Society of Immigrants, an Immigration Society
  9. Official Multiculturalism: A Contested Diversity Governance
  10. Calling out the Old, Calling in the New, Resetting the Agenda

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