Keeping Canada British

By (author) James M. Pitsula
Categories: History

The Ku Klux Klan had its origins in the American South. It was suppressed but rose again in the 1920s, spreading into Canada, especially Saskatchewan. This book offers a new interpretation for the appeal ...

Jamaica in the Canadian Experience

Edited by Andrea Davis & Carl E. James
Categories: Social discrimination and equal treatment

In 2012, Jamaica celebrates its fiftieth anniversary of independence from Britain. In the short period of its life as a nation, Jamaica’s increasingly powerful influence on global culture cannot go ...

“Too Asian?”

Edited by Jeet Heer, Michael C.K. Ma, Davina Bhandar & RJ Gilmour
Categories: Social discrimination and equal treatment

The now notorious Maclean?s article ?'Too Asian?'? from the magazine?s 2010 campus issue has sparked a national furor about race in Canadian higher education. Since the founding of the federal policy of ...

Immigration and Settlement

Edited by Harald Bauder
Categories: Migration, immigration and emigration

Immigration and Settlement: Challenges, Experiences, and Opportunities draws on a selection of papers that were presented at the international conference “Migration & the Global City” at Ryerson University, ...

Home and Native Land

Edited by May Chazan, Lisa Helps, Anna Stanley & Sonali Thakkar
Categories: Ethnic studies

Home and Native Land takes its vastly important topic and places it under a new, penetrating light ? shifting focus from the present grounds of debate onto a more critical terrain.

The book?s articles, ...

Orienting Canada

By (author) John Price
Categories: History of the Americas

Colony to nation? Isolationism to internationalism? WASP society to a multicultural Canada? Focusing on imperial conflicts in the Pacific, Orienting Canada disrupts these familiar narratives in Canadian ...

Naturally Woman

By (author) Sharon Beckford
Categories: Gender studies, gender groups
Series: Inanna Publications

This volume examines the fiction and poetry of five major modern/contemporary Canadian writers: Dionne Brand, Marlene Nourbese Philip, Tessa McWatt, Claire Harris, and Makeda Silvera, through prismatic ...

Multiculturalism and Integration

Edited by Vera Regan, Isabelle Lemee & Maeve Conrick
Categories: Social discrimination and equal treatment

Multiculturalism and Integration provides new insights into the important issues of diversity, reasonable accommodation and identity construction in multicultural societies by examining the experiences ...

Reena Virk

Edited by Mythili Rajiva & Sheila Batacharya
Categories: Social discrimination and equal treatment

The murder of British Columbia teen Reena Virk shocked Canadians and provoked an outpouring of media commentary, academic explanation, plays, and novels. But while much attention was paid to the problem ...

States of Race

Edited by Sherene Razack, Malinda Smith & Sunera Thobani
Categories: Social discrimination and equal treatment

What is a Canadian critical race feminism?

As the contributors to this book note, the interventions of Canadian critical race feminists work to explicitly engage the Canadian state as a white settler society. ...