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Jeremy Waldron, “What is Cosmopolitan?” The Journal of Political Philosophy 8 (June 2000): 234.
Ibid., p. 235.
Ibid., p. 236.
Samuel Scheffler, “Immigration and the Significance of Culture,” Philosophy & Public Affairs 35 (Spring 2007): 119.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 120.
See Waldron, op. cit., p. 234, and Scheffler, op. cit., p. 121.
Charles Taylor, “The Politics of Recognition,” in Amy Gutmann (ed.), Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994), 25–73, pp. 72 and 66.
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006), p. 111.
See, especially, Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights (Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1995).
See Kymlicka, Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 178–185.
Michael Murphy, Multiculturalism: A Critical Introduction (London: Routledge, 2012), p. 66.
See Multiculturalism Policy Index, “Immigrant Minorities: Evidence: New Zealand,” <http://www.queensu.ca/mcp/immigrant/evidence/NewZealand.html>. Accessed July 15, 2014.
On this topic, see, for example, J.R. Miller, Shingwauk’s Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1996).
On internalized racism among indigenous people in North America, see John Gonzalez, Estelle Simard, Twyla Baker-Demaray, and Chase Iron Eyes, “The Internalized Oppression of North American Indigenous Peoples,” in E.J.R. David (ed.), Internalized Oppression: The Psychology of Marginalized Groups (New York: Springer, 2014), pp. 31–56.
I thank Thomas Hurka for raising this point to me.
On self-respect as a reason to resist oppression, see Bernard Boxill, Blacks and Social Justice, revised ed. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1992), pp. 186–204, and Carol Hay, Kantianism, Liberalism, and Feminism: Resisting Oppression (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 117–157.
See Tommie Shelby, We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005).
Susan Moller Okin, “Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?” in Joshua Cohen, Matthew Howard, and Martha Nussbaum (eds.), Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999), 7–24.
M. Nourbese Philip, Frontiers: Essays and Writings on Racism and Culture, 1984–1992 (Stratford, ON: Mercury Press, 1992), p. 186.
Ibid.
Charles W. Mills, “Multiculturalism as/and/or Anti-Racism?” in Anthony Simon Laden and David Owen (eds.), Multiculturalism and Political Theory (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 91–92.
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This paper was presented at the University of Manitoba as part of a series co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics and at the University of Toronto, where it was sponsored by the Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) initiative. I would like to thank my audiences at both universities for their helpful feedback. I would also like to thank Liam Kofi Bright for his comments on a draft.
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Jeffers, C. The Ethics and Politics of Cultural Preservation. J Value Inquiry 49, 205–220 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-014-9470-9
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