Rushing from and hastening to : nationhood, whiteness, and Italian-Canadians

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Date
2009-08Author
Pandolfi, Krysta
Type
ThesisDegree Level
MastersMetadata
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This thesis examines the development of both Italian and Canadian nationhood and its effect on and contribution of racialization in Canada. It analyzes the manner in which scholarship on Whiteness tends to dehistoricize and decontextualize immigration in the creation of White subjects, and how this practice denies the conditions under which most individuals have become immigrants. The study challenged the discursive claims made by Italian-Canadian scholarship by applying a critical race analysis, and highlights how Italian-Canadians achieved Whiteness in Canada and its implications.
Degree
Master of Education (M.Ed.)Department
Educational FoundationsProgram
Educational FoundationsSupervisor
Miller, Dianne; St. Denis, VernaCommittee
Kovach, Maggie; Iliopoulou, Despina; Woodhouse, HowardCopyright Date
August 2009Subject
racialization
nationalism
Italy
Italian-Canadians
Whiteness
immigration
citizenship