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The Radical Liberal Interculturalism Triad: Toward Retrieving Liberalism from White Domination The Radical Liberal Interculturalism Triad: Toward Retrieving Liberalism From White Domination by James Colton McKee Bachelor of Education, University of Victoria, 2012 A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS in the department of Curriculum and Instruction © James Colton McKee, 2015 University of Victoria All rights reserved. This thesis may not be reproduced in whole or in part, by photocopy or other means, without the permission of the author. ii Supervisory Committee The Radical Liberal Interculturalism Triad: Toward Retrieving Liberalism From White Domination by James Colton McKee Master of Arts, University of Victoria, 2015 Supervisory Committee Dr. Graham McDonough Supervisor Dr. Carmen Rodriguez de France Departmental Member iii Abstract Supervisory Committee Dr. Graham McDonough Curriculum and Instruction Supervisor Dr. Carmen Rodriguez de France Curriculum and Instruction Departmental Member Issues relating to diversity and pluralism permeate both social and political discourses in Canada. Of particular interest to this thesis are those issues raised when the demands of ethno-cultural diversity fail to converge with prescriptive objectives to promote said diversity within a democratic liberal state. In this way, this thesis scrutinizes the prescriptive intentions of Canadian multiculturalism and the ways in which it functions to conceal and protect White-European cultural and political dominance in Canadian society. So proposed, this thesis argues for a robust reorientation of liberalism through the normative starting point of non-ideal theory. Likewise, I will show that a radical liberal interculturalism triad, consisting of interculturalism, asymmetrical reciprocity and rectificatory justice can upend the misleading framework of mainstream liberal social contract theory. Hence, I move away from ideal theory’s tendency to exclude, or at least marginalize, the actual state of affairs, by (1) subverting the taken-for-granted neutrality of the liberal individual; (2) jettisoning the misrepresented truths of ideal theory; (3) exposing the hegemonic practices of multiculturalism; and (4) illustrating the racial foundations of mainstream liberalism. In sum, this thesis claims that the radically liberal interculturalism triad offers a viable path toward dislodging the sites of White cultural and epistemological domination that lies just beneath the misleading facade of Canada’s official multiculturalism. iv Table of Contents Supervisory Committee ............................................................................................................ ii Abstract ..................................................................................................................................... iii Table of Contents ...................................................................................................................... iv Acknowledgments ...................................................................................................................... v Dedication ................................................................................................................................... vi INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................... 1 Contextual considerations ............................................................................................................. 1 Cartography of Canadian multicultural origins ................................................................... 11 Why this project? ............................................................................................................................ 15 Significance of the Problem ......................................................................................................... 19 Roadmap ............................................................................................................................................ 21 The method of this project: how will it be done? ................................................................. 25 Basic Limitations/constraints and omissions ...................................................................... 26 Significance to the author ............................................................................................................ 27 CHAPTER ONE: AN EXPOSITORY TREATMENT OF RACIAL LIBERALISM AND MULTICULTURAL THEORY ................................................................................ 30 The Dilemma of Diversity ............................................................................................................ 32 Will Kymlicka’s Multicultural Citizenship: a theory of minority rights or thinly veiled dominance under the banner of pluralism? ............................................................. 35 Liberalism, race and multiculturalism: Mills on white dominance and the racial contract .............................................................................................................................................. 47 Interculturalism .............................................................................................................................. 57 Iris Marion Young: Asymmetrical Reciprocity ..................................................................... 60 Rectificatory justice: multiculturalism and the pitfalls of distributive justice ......... 61 CHAPTER TWO: THE SOCIAL CONTRACT AND JUSTICE AS FAIRNESS .. 66 Rawls, race and omission: an expository review of Rawls and whiteness of Rawlsian liberalism ....................................................................................................................... 70 Rawls, the social contract and Canadian multiculturalism .............................................. 75 Two principles of Justice .............................................................................................................. 77 The whiteness of the original position .................................................................................... 78 The imperative of non-ideal theory and rectificatory justice ......................................... 79 CHAPTER THREE: THE RADICAL LIT (rLIT) ......................................................... 86 The rLIT Anticipated ..................................................................................................................... 87 Non-Ideal Theory and The rLIT ................................................................................................. 91 Asymmetrical Reciprocity ........................................................................................................... 98 Rectificatory Justice ....................................................................................................................... 99 The rLIT .......................................................................................................................................... 105 The Dilemma Of Diversity Revisited ..................................................................................... 117 Bibliography .......................................................................................................................... 121 v Acknowledgments It has been my privilege to be given the opportunity to engage in this work. As such, I offer my enduring gratitude and appreciation to the department of curriculum and instruction at UVIC for allowing me to explore my identity as a graduate student. My graduate supervisor Dr. Graham McDonough is owed a great deal of credit for his patience as he watched this project materialize. He brought intelligibility to my thoughts, clarity to my writing, and there is no doubt that the exploration, research, and writing of this thesis would have been untenable without his insight and guidance. I would also like to gratefully acknowledge the rest of my thesis committee, professors Dr. Carmen Rodriguez de France and Dr. Cindy Holder. Their willingness to be apart of this project was integral to crafting this graduate manuscript. Thanks to Dr. Seantel AnaΪs for her support during the transitional year between my professional development and graduate studies. Her role in enhancing my view of social theory and challenging me to explore the world through myriad lenses played a large part in pursuing graduate studies in the first place. Special thanks are owed to my parents, whose encouragement and support contributed to making this project possible. vi Dedication This thesis is dedicated to my late Nan Christine McKee, who passed away in 1995 at age 53. My memories of her are the fondest of my childhood. INTRODUCTION Contextual considerations Issues concerning the integration of ethno-cultural groups into the larger liberal polity continue to dominate socio-political discourses in Canada. Despite the sanguine rhetoric of Canada’s utopic multicultural mosaic, questions remain about to what extent the liberal polity should accommodate and support the demands of minority populations and more broadly ethno-cultural diversity itself. Despite myriad conceptions of nation and pluralism in the polity, Canadian policy and discourse tends to bend toward actions that preserve racial or ethno-cultural privilege in society for the majority white population. In consequence, a tension exists in the Canadian polity between the purported aspirations of the state to promote pluralism on the one hand and the tendency to preserve normative
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