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#BlackInSchool

Par (auteur) Habiba Cooper Diallo
Avant-propos de Awad Ibrahim
Catégories: Biographies (ouvrages généraux)

#BlackInSchool is Habiba Cooper Diallo’s high school journal, in which she documents, processes, and resists the systemic racism, microaggressions, stereotypes, and outright racism she experienced in ...

Stories of Métis Women

Par (auteur) Bailey Oster
Édité par Bailey Oster & Marilyn Lizee
Avant-propos de Audrey Poitras
Traduit par Mary SkyBlue Morin
Par (artiste) Krista Leddy
Catégories: Populations autochtones
Séries: Indigenous Spirit of Nature

This book, and accompanying Vimeo documentary link (DVD available on request), is a collection of stories about culture, history, and nationhood as told by Métis women. The Métis are known by many names ...

What Was Said to Me

Par (auteur) Ruby Peter & Helene Demers
Avant-propos de Molly Peter
Catégories: Biographies (ouvrages généraux)

A narrative of resistance and resilience spanning seven decades in the life of a tireless advocate for Indigenous language preservation.

Life histories are a form of contemporary social history and convey ...

St. Michael's Residential School

Par (auteur) Nancy Dyson
Avec Dan Rubenstein
Catégories: Biography & Autobiography

One of the few accounts by care-givers in an Indian Residential School describing the
horrific conditions.
Nancy Dyson and Dan Rubenstein In 1970, the authors, Nancy Dyson and Dan Rubenstein, were hired ...

The Fire and the Ashes

Par (auteur) Andrew Jackson
Catégories: Politique et gouvernement

In The Fire and the Ashes, long-time union economist and policy analyst Andrew Jackson looks back on a fascinating career in the labour movement, the NDP, and left politics, combining keen historical ...

Anne's Cradle

Par (auteur) Eri Muraoka
Traduit par Cathy Hirano
Catégories: Biographies (ouvrages généraux)

The bestselling biography of renowned Japanese translator of Anne of Green Gables is available in English for the first time.
The name Hanako Muraoka is revered in Japan. Her Japanese translation of L. ...

Fuse

Drawing on her own experiences as a woman of Iranian and British Isle descent, writer Hollay Ghadery dives into conflicts and uncertainty surrounding the biracial female body and identity, especially ...

The Queer Evangelist

Par (auteur) Cheri DiNovo, CM
Avant-propos de Kathleen Wynne
Catégories: Pratique du Christianisme

In The Queer Evangelist, Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo (CM) tells her story, from her roots as a young socialist activist in the 1960s to ordained minister in the ’90s to member of provincial parliament. As ...

Bushman’s Lair, The

Evocative of John Vaillant’s The Golden Spruce and Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, this fascinating portrait of John Bjornstrom—a far-from-ordinary fugitive—makes for a page-turning read. | The ...

Hitler's Cosmopolitan Bastard

Par (auteur) Martyn Bond
Catégories: Histoire de l’Europe

The remarkable story of Austro-Japanese Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, founder of the Pan-European Union following the First World War, which offered a vision of peaceful, democratic unity for Europe, ...