Community in Crisis

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: What does the French Canadian see when he looks at himself? Is there really a French Canadian mentality? What does Quebec want? Who is the Separatist? Any imaginative and feasible solutions to our current national crisis must be based on comprehension of the answers to these fundamental questions. Richard Jones is the only Protestant English-Canadian teacher on the staff of an all-French college in Quebec, and it is from this unique position that he places the reader's heart and mind on the wave length of Quebec feelings. He interprets the French-Canadian outlook sensitively and sympathetically but does not agree with all the attitudes or accept all the prejudices. Community in Crisis explains the deep-rooted frustrations and harsh realities which confront the French Canadian today. The myths which have consoled him in the past have been shattered by the rapid economic and social modernization of Quebec. A new approach to education, an insistence on a greater say in financial affairs, and a much more active role for the provincial government are signs of accelerating nationalism. This national revolution is accompanied by a profound social revolution. The author believes that these two revolutions have so far met only in the middle class. Richard Jones delineates the specific alterations for economic liberation and social equality which the middle class is demanding so vigorously. His comments on Separatism and its alternative-a new Federalism-are enlightening. In this lively book Richard Jones does much to heighten the reader's perception about the attitudes of French Canada and to dispel the misunderstanding which lack of information breeds. Community in Crisis is an invaluable contribution to any realistic discussion of the problems which face all Canadians. Richard Jones was born in Kearney, New Jersey, in 1943. His family moved to Canada when he was five years old, and he acquired his elementary and high school education as an American in Canada. He became a Canadian citizen and went on to study International Affairs at Princeton, where he graduated cum laude in 1965. A Bank of Nova Scotia Bilingual Fellowship enabled Mr. Jones to pursue studies in History at Laval University, this time as an English Canadian in French Canada. Mr. Hones now teaches History in the College de Ste-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere, situated in a delightful village on the South Shore of Quebec. As the only Protestant English Canadian on the staff, the author is realizing his objective to become a Canadian in the full sense of the word. He says: "I don't think that one can really be born a Canadian. In fact, he is at best half Canadian unless he makes a conscious effort to complete his identity by familiarizing himself with the other major national group." Richard Jones has spent several summers working for the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews, which his father directs, implementing their program of student exchange visits. An ardent traveller, the author has camped in forty states south of the border and in almost all the provinces of Canada, as well as throughout Europe.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.