Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Metis actress Tantoo Cardinal to receive lifetime achievement award CTV News 2015-02-05 The Canadian Press TORONTO — As Metis actress Tantoo Cardinal prepares to receive a lifetime achievement award, she remembers what originally inspired her to begin acting more than 40 years ago: anger. “It wasn’t about a career at all — it was about…
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Memories of Metis Women of Saint-Eustache, Manitoba — (1910-1980) Oral History Forum/Forum d’histoire orale Volumes 19-20 (1999-2000) pages 90-111 Nicole St-Onge, Professor of History University of Ottawa Introductory Comments In an article entitled “Hired Men: Ontario Agricultural Wage Labour in Historical Perspective” Joy Parr wrote the following, telling, words: Scholars too have claimed that from the…
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About Hatsumi… with Toronto Director Chris Hope: Part 1 of 3 Discover Nikkei 2012-06-27 Norm Masaji Ibuki An extraordinary and beautiful film…exhaustively and passionately researched, both at the level of the filmmaker’s personal history and as an investigation into our national consciousness” —Academy Award® Nominated Director, Atom Egoyan Thus far in 2012, the 70th anniversary…
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The Michif language—spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Canada—is considered an “impossible language” since it uses French for nouns and Cree for verbs, and comprises two different sets of grammatical rules. Bakker uses historical research and fieldwork data to present the first detailed analysis of this language and…
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New doc on Shadeism doesn’t make the cut Mixed In Canada 2014-12-08 Rema Tavares Debuting November 10th, 2014 on the CBC’s free preview on their documentary channel, Hue: A Matter of Colour opens with the narrator and main subject, Vic Sarin, discussing his relationship to his mixed-race family (or if anything lack thereof). This movie,…
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2014 National Poetry Month Poem of the Day: Fred Wah Turnstone Press Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 2014-04-16 “Waiting for Saskatchewan,” the title poem for the book, arose out of an event that occurred in Nelson, BC on a winter night in the early ’80s. We had been anticipating an exhibition of art from Saskatchewan about to…
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Hot Topic: Crisis in Ferguson, Missouri Carleton Newsroom Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 2014-11-28 Unrest is spreading in response to a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teen in Ferguson, Missouri. A Carleton expert is available to discuss many aspects of the situation. Daniel McNeil…
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Waiting For Saskatchewan Turnstone Press 1985 96 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0888011008 Fred Wah Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry 1985 Wah interprets memory—a journey to China and Japan, his father’s experience as a Chinese immigrant in small Canadian towns, images from childhood—to locate the influence of genealogy. The procession of narrative reveals Wah’s…
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The corporate institution of mixed race: Indigeneity, discourse, and Orientalism in Aboriginal policy Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Volume 10, Number 1, 2014 17 pages Camie Augustus Department of History University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Contradiction in Aboriginal policy, especially the oscillation between assimilation and segregation, is often viewed as inconsequential. The suggestion has been…
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Mixed-Race Identity, Ferguson & Why it Matters to Us Mixed In Canada 2014-11-25 Rema Tavares By now you probably already know that Darren Wilson wasn’t indicted yesterday, November 24th, 2014 for murdering unarmed Black youth Mike Brown on August 9th, 2014. Ever since that day, folks around the world have been showing their support, as…