Full Description
Half of Toronto's population is born outside of Canada and over 140 languages are spoken on the city's streets and in its homes. How to build community amidst such diversity is one of the global challenges that Canada - and many other western nations - has to face head on.
Making a Global City critically examines the themes of diversity and community in a single primary school, the Clinton Street Public School in Toronto, between 1920 and 1990. From the swift and seismic shift from a Jewish to southern European demographic in the 1950s to the gradual globalized community starting in the 1970s, Vipond eloquently and clearly highlights the challenges posed by multicultural citizenship in a city that was dominated by Anglo-Protestants. Contrary to recent well-documented anti-immigrant rhetoric in the media, Making a Global City celebrates one of the world's most multicultural cities while stressing the fact that public schools are a vital tool in integrating and accepting immigrants and children in liberal democracies.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Jewish Clinton 1920-1952: "Well To The Fore Among Toronto Schools"
Chapter 3: At Clinton You're a Somebody: Religion and the Idea of Citizenship
Chapter 4: European Clinton, 1950-1965: "Ruth Beside the Alien Corn"
Chapter 5: European Clinton, 1965-1975: From Mungie Cakes to Multiculturalism
Chapter 6: Global Clinton, 1975-1990: "We Have Children From Lots of Countries"
Chapter 7: Global Clinton and Heritage Languages
Chapter 8: Conclusion: Remembering the Answers
