Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 19:21:48 -0500 ()
From: Terry Goldie <tgoldie-AT-YorkU.CA>
Subject: Re: postcolonialism:  queries



> Terry Goldie wrote: This does NOT imply that a
> > African-Canadian whose parents came from Jamaica has the same purchase on
> > the system as a wealthy WACP (the English Canadian elite has traditionally
> > been Anglo-Celt rather than Anglo-saxon). 
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>
> does the second half of anglo-celt mean scottish irish welsh and where
> does saxon go and why?
yes. the distinction really isn't very important in terms of class and
ethnic position in Canada (or, as it is usually described, "whiteness" in
some sense or another). But the power-brokers in early 20th century Canada
tend to have names of Celtic extraction rather than the pure English of
the sort Tennyson loved so much.
terry 

 Terry Goldie
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York University
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Canada
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