Category: Canada

  • Between places and spaces The McGill Daily Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2016-03-21 Francesca Humi Articulating my identity as a mixed-race woman “Who are you?” I am a woman of colour. No, I’m a mixed-race woman of colour. My identity is constantly gendered and racialized. While I have come to be very comfortable with my gender identity…

  • Half-Asian Tattooers Use Art To Confront Mixed Race Stereotypes Konbini 2016-08-04 Morgan English Five Asian-Canadian artists (some female, some genderqueer) have joined forces for a new exhibit that explores what it means to be half-Asian in the west. Of the crew, four are also tattooers: Nomi Chi, Mandy Tsung, Shannon Elliott and Katie So. Their…

  • Painful but necessary: Why I stopped putting off the racism talk with my daughter CBC News 2016-07-01 Samantha Kemp-Jackson Toronto, Ontario, Canada Demonstrators stand in front of the East Baton Rouge Parish City Hall doors on Monday. (Reuters) Talk opens door to a world where ignorance is not bliss and racism must be confronted head-on…

  • How To Talk To Your Kids About Race Roundhouse Radio, 98.3 FM Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Thursday, 2016-07-14, 17:00-18:00Z (10:00-11:00 PDT) Live Call-in: How to talk to your kids about race With author and educator Sharon Chang, author of “Raising Mixed Race” and host Minelle Mahtani It’s been a tough news week. The media has…

  • “What are you?”: Mixed race responses to the racial gaze Ethnicities Published online before print 2015-12-16 DOI: 10.1177/1468796815621938 Jillian Paragg Department of Sociology University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Mixed race scholarship considers the deployment of the term “mixed race” as an identification and theorizes that the operation of the external racial gaze is signaled through…

  • Social-practice art challenges the status quo The Winnipeg Free Press 2016-05-30 Alison Gillmor, Writer – Arts and Life From KC Adams’ Perception series, 2014-15. Adams’ portraits blend personal, political Even if you don’t regularly visit art galleries, you probably saw some of KC Adams’ work in the weeks following the notorious Maclean’s magazine article that…

  • In Due Season Wilfrid Laurier University Press May 2016 375 pages ISBN13: 978-1-77112-071-5 Christine van der Mark (1917–1970) Afterword by: Carole Gerson, Professor of English Department Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada Janice Dowson, Lecturer in English literature and Academic Writing Simon Fraser University and University of the Fraser Valley First published in 1947, In…

  • Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People by Michel Hogue (review) Labour / Le Travail Issue 77, Spring 2016 pages 297-299 DOI: 10.1353/llt.2016.0039 Sterling Evans, Louise Welsh Chair in Southern Plains and Borderlands History University of Oklahoma Michel Hogue, Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a…

  • Jewish/Afro-Caribbean artist, performer and playwright Sarah Waisvisz, 34, will be presenting her one-woman show, Monstrous, which explores the often ignored mixed race identity based on her own personal experiences, and her work on her PhD thesis research about Francophone/Anglophone literature specifically by Afro/Caribbean women

  • Coloring Outside The Lines With Interracial Marriage The Stony Brook Independent Stony Brook, New York 2016-05-02 Kayla Frazier, Staff Writer For Stony Brook student Shage Price, being the daughter of parents of different races led her to have questions about her looks early on. “I would always ask my mother why she married daddy and…