While politicians and ideologues declare multiculturalism at an end, people in Toronto go about our everyday lives, thrown together by collisions of culture, conflict and circumstance. This week in the Imagining Toronto course we'll explore lived experiences of multiculturalism, considering whether the language of tolerance — as a minimum standard for civility in an era of cultural conflict — helps us in our efforts to live together or figure out whether we can do so at all.

Today's class will concentrate on the conversations across culture invoked by Dionne Brand's What We All Long For (2005), Rabindranath Maharaj's The Amazing Absorbing Boy (2010) and Farzana Doctor's Six Metres of Pavement (2011).

Slides for today's class are available here: 2011-2012 Week 6 slides GEOG 4280 Myth of the Multicultural City Part II