Racial Formation in Quebec: A Legal Retospective
Year: 2009
Type: preprint
Abstract: This Article shall use the experience of the Quebecois in Canada to survey the linkage between cultural formation and race in Quebecois racial identity, and then map out these linkages and their relations to the political and legal discourse that has emerged in Canada on the place of the Quebecois in the country. Cultural formation and racial formation are unmistakably linked. Specific social and linguistic separatism can over time crystallize into racial formation, especially if aided by official government recognition and legal codification. As this Article shall demonstrate, the verification of this idea can be clearly seen the experience of the Quebecois in Canada, for the formation of Quebecois racial identity could not have occurred without the participation of the Canadian government in the process.
Source: SSRN Electronic Journal
Author: Roozbeh B. Baker
Institution: University of Surrey
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3123831330