Half of Toronto's population is born outside of Canada and over 140
languages are spoken on the city's streets and in its homes. How to
build community amidst such diversity is one of the global
challenges that Canada - and many other western nations - has to
face head on. Making a Global City critically examines the themes
of diversity and community in a single primary school, the Clinton
Street Public School in Toronto, between 1920 and 1990. From the
swift and seismic shift from a Jewish to southern European
demographic in the 1950s to the gradual globalized community
starting in the 1970s, Vipond eloquently and clearly highlights the
challenges posed by multicultural citizenship in a city that was
dominated by Anglo-Protestants. Contrary to recent well-documented
anti-immigrant rhetoric in the media, Making a Global City
celebrates one of the world's most multicultural cities while
stressing the fact that public schools are a vital tool in
integrating and accepting immigrants and children in liberal
democracies.
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