Is diversity our strength? An analysis of the facts and fancies of diversity in Toronto

Ahmadi, Donya

doi:10.1016/j.ccs.2017.11.002

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“…Scholars also observe that despite the City's motto and its many policies and practices encouraging diversity and inclusion, racism in the City of Toronto remains pervasive (Ahmadi, 2018;Croucher, 1997;Gross, 2007;Joy & Vogel, 2015;Valverde, 2012). As Boudreau et al (2009) argue, diversity has become so central to the identity of the City of Toronto that any threat to this harmonious image is silenced.…”

Section: Diversity Our Strength: the Local Contextmentioning

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Toronto the Good?

Almeida¹

2022

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Armed with the motto "Diversity Our Strength," the City of Toronto has garnered a world-class reputation for challenging racism, largely because of how it is seen to value and include racialized groups through its diversity policies and practices. Toronto the Good? unsettles popular depictions of both diversity and the City of Toronto by attending to what diversity does in and for the City in the context of historical relations of race.Toronto the Good? brings together Shana Almeida's critical insights as a former political staff member along with her years of in-depth research on diversity in the City of Toronto to offer a compelling case to rethink how we understand diversity and racial inclusion in the City of Toronto and beyond. Initiated in a local context, Toronto the Good? critically contributes to global discussions on diversity, race, democracy, political participation, and power.Funded by the Financé par le Government gouvernement of Canada du Canada

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Section: Diversity Our Strength: the Local Contextmentioning

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Toronto the Good?

Almeida¹

2022

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“…Participants (N= 649) aged 18-25 (M = 18.75, SD = 1.24) years old were recruited through the SONA portal, a subject pool comprised of first-year undergraduate students completing an introductory Psychology course at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC). This campus is part of a large, urban Canadian university and is situated in one of the country's most diverse communities (Ahmadi, 2018), thus providing a unique opportunity to assess a majority non-Caucasian sample of emerging adults. The inclusion criteria for age (18-25 years old) was determined using the distinct period defined by emerging adulthood (Arnett, 2000).…”

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Anxiety mediates the relationship between childhood adversity and perceived current life stress in a diverse sample of emerging adults

Tao

Ramakrishnan

McPhee

et al. 2021

International Journal of Adolescence and Youth

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Childhood adversity is associated with increased current life stress in adulthood and is often influenced by subjective appraisals related to anxiety. Anxiety is a multifaceted construct that includes variability in assumed presentation. The current study assessed the unique mediating effects of both trait and symptom-based anxiety on childhood adversity and current life stress. Undergraduate students enrolled in a large, urban, public university (N = 638, 89% non-Caucasian) completed the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Beck Anxiety Inventory, and the Perceived Stress Scale. A parallel mediation demonstrated that both trait and symptom-based anxiety fully mediated the relationship between childhood adversity and perceived current life stress and that these effects are statistically different (b = .112, SE = .020, 95% CI [.074, .153]). Thus, we demonstrated a unique mediating role of two different anxiety indices that varied in strength of their respective contributions to the model.

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“…Scholars also observe that despite the City of Toronto's motto "Diversity Our Strength" and its various policies and practices encouraging diversity and democratic participation, racism in Toronto remains pervasive (Ahmadi, 2018;Croucher, 1997;Gross, 2007;Joy and Vogel, 2015;Valverde, 2012). As Boudreau et al (2009) argue, "diversity has become so central to Toronto's identity that any threat to this harmonious image is silenced" (p. 95).…”

Section: Diversity and Democracy In The City Of Torontomentioning

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Mythical encounters: challenging racism in the diverse city

Almeida

2019

IJSSP

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to situate the idea that the City of Toronto is a leader on addressing issues of diversity, racism and democracy within the context of diversity discourse and the racial norms that are incited by it. Design/methodology/approach A genealogy and critical discourse analysis of City of Toronto documents from 1975 to 2017 involving consultations with racial Others on issues of diversity, race and/or racism was conducted. Findings The author shows how the specific racial norms that continue to make up diversity discourse as “truth” in the City of Toronto are reproduced through the commodification of racial Others and the re-framing of their racial claims, to re-generate the narrative of the diverse City of Toronto where all are welcome to participate and belong. Practical implications Implications for senses of place are discussed. Originality/value This paper adds critical depth to understanding increased participation of racialised communities as a mechanism for achieving socio-political change in government and non-government institutions. Initiated in a local context, the findings of this paper are intended to contribute to a global reservoir of critical knowledge on diversity, race, democracy, political participation and power.

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Is diversity our strength? An analysis of the facts and fancies of diversity in Toronto

Cited by 14 publications

References 30 publications

Toronto the Good?

Toronto the Good?

Anxiety mediates the relationship between childhood adversity and perceived current life stress in a diverse sample of emerging adults

Mythical encounters: challenging racism in the diverse city

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