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<em>Seeing Ourselves</em> examines the meanings of ethnicity, race, and culture, exploring how these concepts are understood by individuals and embedded within Canadian society. Offering a distinctly Canadian perspective on debates that resonate globally, the book interrogates the realities behind Canada’s self-definition as a multicultural society.</p>
<p>Now in its fifth edition,<em> Seeing Ourselves</em> has been updated to address major social and political developments since its first publication in 1989, including the rapid growth of immigration, particularly from Asia; the increasing prominence of reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples; the Black Lives Matter movement; Quebec’s secularism legislation; the Trump-era backlash in the United States and its reverberations in Canada; and the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, the book retains the core explanatory frameworks, theoretical discussions, student essays, excerpts, and references to media reports that have long distinguished it as a foundational text in the study of race and ethnicity in Canada.</p>