Category: Canada

  • Marni Soupcoff: A law that bans ‘mixed race’ couples? Yes. In 2014. In Canada National Post Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2014-11-06 Marni Soupcoff, Deputy Comment Editor A Canadian woman falls in love and joins her life with that of a man of a different race. As a direct result of this union, she is harassed, receives…

  • Conceptualizing, and Re-conceptualizing, Mixed Race Identity Development Theories and Canada’s Multicultural Framework in Historical Context SFU Educational Review Volume 1, Number 1 (2014) ISSN: 1916-050X 18 pages Samantha Fischer Department of Psychology Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada “Racism is like a fleet-footed bedbug that runs for cover under a sweet-smelling duvet stuffed with…

  • Mixed Race Amnesia is an ambitious and critical look at how multiraciality is experienced in the global north. Drawing on a series of interviews she conducted with twenty-four women of mixed race, acclaimed geographer Minelle Mahtani explores some of the assumptions and attitudes people have around multiraciality.

  • Dorothy Roberts Lecture: “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race” McMaster University CIBC Hall, McMaster University Student Centre (MUSC 319) 280 Main Street West Hamilton, Ontario, L8S4L9, Canada 2014-10-23, 19:00-21:00 EDT (Local Time) The Bourns Lectureship in Bioethics and the McMaster Centre for Scholarship in the Public Interest present a lecture by Dorothy Roberts, George…

  • Children (but not adults) judge similarity in own- and other-race faces by the color of their skin Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Volume 130, February 2015 pages 56–66 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2014.09.009 Benjamin Balas, Assistant Professor of Psychology North Dakota State University Jessie Peissig, Associate Professor of Psychology California State University, Fullerton Margaret Moulson, Assistant Professor &…

  • Hapa-palooza 2014 celebrates three giants of mixed-heritage Vancouver Observer Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2014-09-28 Jordan Yerman An artist, a scientist, and a poet: Hapa-palooza honours Kip Fulbeck, Ann Makosinski, and Fred Wah. “What am I? I’m what’s on your spoon when you pull it out of the melting pot!!” So writes a subject in California-based…

  • Contours of a People: Metis Family, Mobility, and History ed. by Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda MacDougall (review) [Haggarty] The Canadian Historical Review Volume 95, Number 3, September 2014 pages 463-465 DOI: 10.1353/can.2014.0057 Liam Haggarty Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada St-Onge, Nicole, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall (eds.), Maria Campbell (fore.), Contours of…

  • ‘Hapa-palooza’ Celebrates Canada’s Mixed-Heritage Residents NBC News 2014-09-22 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Vancouver is gearing up for the Hapa-palooza Festival, the world’s largest celebration of mixed heritage and hybrid identity, to be held at locations throughout the city this month. The word “hapa” usually means a person who is part Asian or Pacific Islander, but festival…

  • Hapa-palooza 2014 is coming: Mark Your Calendars! Vancouver, Canada 2014-09-24 through 2014-09-28 Hapa-palooza is Canada’s biggest festival celebrating mixed-roots identity, scheduled for every September in Vancouver, Canada. This year, Hapa-palooza takes place September 24-28, 2014, marking our four year anniversary. Hapa-palooza Festival is organized by the Hybrid Ancestry Public Arts Society, a non-profit society dedicated…

  • “No Rainbow Families” and the Problem with Race-Based Reproduction Policies Impact Ethics: Making a Difference in Bioethics 2014-09-08 Catherine Clune-Taylor, Doctoral Candidate Department of Philosophy University of Alberta, Canada Catherine Clune-Taylor suggests that we should target institutional and interpersonal racism rather than restrict individual reproductive choice A July 2014 Calgary Herald article revealed that Calgary’s…