Category: Canada

  • I had no idea that we could switch races whenever we felt like it. I’ve stupidly been Cree just because I emerged from a Cree v-jay-jay. So, for the rest of the month, I’m choosing to be Tibetan. Since this morning, I’ve already sherpa’d six people up Diefenbaker Hill. (I really should have chosen a…

  • Mixed-race heritage complicates stem cell search Radio Canada International 2015-08-24 Lynn Desjardins A 19-year-old woman with cancer is having trouble finding a stem cell donor because of her mixed aboriginal and Irish roots. Rosalie Lirette Gilbert was diagnosed on June 29 with acute lymphoblastic leukemia—a cancer of the blood and bone marrow…. Read the entire…

  • New group looks to bring together mixed-race students Columbia Daily Spectator New York, New York 2015-04-08 Marium Dar, Spectator Staff Writer A new student group is hoping to create a safe space for mixed-race students to discuss the challenges and struggles they face when discussing self-identity and racialization. The Mixed-Race Students Society of Columbia University,…

  • How Canadians celebrate their identity — it’s all in the hyphen The Toronto Star 2015-05-02 Eric Andrew-Gee, Staff Reporter Hyphenated identities — Ukrainian-Canadian, Somali-Canadian and the like — have played an outsized if ambiguous role in Canada. The Canadian poet Fred Wah is a bard of hyphens. He has described them, variously, as “a boundary…

  • Scree: The Collected Earlier Poems, 1962–1991 Talonbooks 2015 640 pages 6 W x 9 H inches Hardcover ISBN 13: 9780889229471; ISBN 10: 0889229473 Fred Wah Edited and Introduction by: Jeff Derksen, Associate Professor of English Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Fred Wah’s career has spanned six decades and a range of formal styles…

  • A short interview with Fred Wah Jacket2 2015-03-05 Rob McLennan Fred Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan in 1939, but he grew up in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia. He studied music and English literature at the University of British Columbia in the early 1960s where he was one of the founding…

  • Douglas Todd: Mixed unions applauded by some, but dismissed by others as brownwashing The Vancouver Sun Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2015-07-24 Douglass Todd, Vancouver Sun columnist Ethnically mixed couples — involving whites, blacks, Japanese, Hispanics, Chinese, South Asians or others — were heralded not long ago as the wave of a tolerant, open, non-racist future.…

  • Thinking ‘Post-Racial’ Ideology Transnationally: The Contemporary Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Americas Critical Sociology Published online before print 2015-07-03 DOI: 10.1177/0896920515591175 Alexandre Emboaba Da Costa, Assistant Professor, Theoretical, Cultural and International Studies in Education University of Alberta, Canada This article introduces the special issue on post-racial ideologies and politics in the Americas. It…

  • “Canadian-First”: Mixed Race Self-Identification and Canadian Belonging Canadian Ethnic Studies Volume 47, Number 2, 2015 pages 21-44 DOI: 10.1353/ces.2015.0017 Jillian Paragg Department of Sociology University of Alberta Not being read or identified by others as “Canadian” was a common thread in semi-structured in-depth interviews I conducted with 19 young adults of mixed race in a…

  • Cross-country variation in interracial marriage: a USA–Canada comparison of metropolitan areas Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 38, Issue 9, 2015 pages 1591-1609 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2015.1005644 Feng Hou Zheng Wu Christoph Schimmele John Myles While black–white intermarriage is uncommon in the USA, blacks in Canada are just as likely to marry whites as to marry blacks. Asians,…