Social discrimination and equal treatment

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Viola Desmond

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 ...

Policing Black Lives

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 ...

Colonized Classrooms

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 ...

Vers l'équité salariale

Les textes de cet essai se penchent sur une question des plus importantes, qui sous-tend l’ensemble de notre quête vers l’équité salariale : après avoir obtenu un règlement de 3 milliards de ...

Jamaica in the Canadian Experience

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?”

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

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, ...

Multiculturalism and Integration

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

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

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. ...