BlackLife

By (author) Rinaldo Walcott & Idil Abdillahi
Categories: Social theory
Series: Semaphore

What does it mean in the era of Black Lives Matter to continue to ignore and deny the violence that is the foundation of the Canadian nation state? BlackLife discloses the ongoing destruction of Black ...

Rethinking Who We Are

Edited by Jessica E. Pulis & Paul U. Angelini
Categories: Social discrimination and equal treatment

Rethinking Who We Are takes a non-conventional approach to understanding human difference in Canada. Included are analyses on the macro differences among Canadians, such as the disparities produced from ...

Beyond Guilt Trips

By (author) Anu Taranath
Categories: Travel and holiday

Travellers can find themselves unsure about how to think or speak about the differences in race or culture that they find. Storyteller Anu Taranath begins at home, unpacking our baggage about who we are, ...

Perception

By (author) KC Adams
Foreword by Katherena Vermette
Other primary creator Cathy Mattes
Categories: Teaching of a specific subject

Social action art in book form, Perception: A Photo Series encourages readers to look and then look again.
Artist KC Adams’ Perception Photo Series first appeared on billboards, in storefronts, in ...

Viola Desmond

By (author) Graham Reynolds
With Wanda Robson
Categories: History of the Americas

Many Canadians know that Viola Desmond is the first Black, non-royal woman to be featured on Canadian currency. But fewer know the details of Viola Desmond’s life and legacy. In 1946, Desmond was arrested ...

Racial Profiling and Human Rights in Canada

Edited by Lorne Foster, Lesley A. Jacobs, Bobby Siu & Shaheen Azmi
Contributions by Lorne Foster & Lesley A. Jacobs & Bobby Siu & Shaheen Azmi & Sunil Gurmukh & David M. Tanovich & Gary V. Melanson & Carl E. James & Andrea S. Anderson & Tomee Elizabeth Sojourner-Campbell & Tammy Landau & Scot Wortley
Categories: Discrimination in employment and harassment law

Racial profiling is a hot-button topic that elicits strong responses on both sides. A series of public discussions has so far failed to yield a conclusive consensus. Racial Profiling and Human Rights ...

Policing Black Lives

By (author) Robyn Maynard
Categories: Social discrimination and equal treatment

While highlighting the ubiquity of Black resistance, Policing Black Lives traces the still-living legacy of slavery across multiple institutions, shedding light on the state’s role in perpetuating contemporary ...

Dying from Improvement

By (author) Sherene Razack
Categories: Sociology

“Dying from Improvement is a major contribution to the issues of Indigenous disposability, suffering, and struggles for justice within a settler state that is dedicated to their disappearance. ” –Audra ...

“Métis”

By (author) Chris Andersen
Categories: History of the Americas

Ask any Canadian what "Métis" means, and they will likely say "mixed race. " Canadians consider Métis mixed in ways that other Indigenous people are not, and the census and courts have premised their ...

Colonized Classrooms

By (author) Sheila Cote-Meek
Categories: Social discrimination and equal treatment

In Colonized Classrooms, Sheila Cote-Meek discusses how Aboriginal students confront narratives of colonial violence in the postsecondary classroom, while they are, at the same time, living and experiencing ...