Welcome to the course homepage for Multiculturalism in Canada, Spring Semester 2009.

Here is the reading and discussion homework for next week’s class.

Read the excerpt from Charles Taylor’s essay “The Politics of Recognition” and prepare to answer these questions:

1. What are some of the ill-effects of non-recognition or misrecognition?

2. What changes, according to Taylor, have lead to the modern importance of identity and recognition?

3. Explain what Taylor means by the “politics of universal dignity” and the “politics of difference.”