Re-imagining Race
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In Exalted Subjects, Thobani draws upon re-imagining race in terms of culture and I think there are couple of points that are worth considering in the whyness of such re-imagination. Based on my understanding from the text, one of the important reasons to do so is providing the immigrants with a change of better integration in the society. And the other point is the way it affects the White supremacy. It actually kind of changes the discourse to cultural tolerance. I assume changing the discourse to cultural tolerance can be very important in a way that it sustains the white dominance. In other words, White Canadians (or similar dominant groups in other nations) can retain the power to define and govern the cultural expressions of minorities, while presenting themselves as cosmopolitan and tolerant. This allows whiteness to be reimagined as neutral or even progressive, rather than a racialized and dominant identity.