Category: Canada

  • Black Dox: Father Figure By Blacks: Canadian Black owned everything 2014-09-04 Nicole Franklin Zun Lee Father Figure – Exploring Alternate Notions of Black Fatherhood Photographer: Zun Lee www.zunlee.com IG, Facebook: zunleephoto Twitter: @zunleephoto Project Timeframe: September 2011 – present Publisher/Contact/Pre-order: Ceibafoto LLC Book Release: September 19, 2014. Awards: Named on “PDN 30 2014,” Photo District…

  • Metis: Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood University of British Columbia Press 2014-05-12 284 pages 6 x 9 in. Hardcover ISBN: 9780774827218 Chris Andersen, Research and Associate Professor of Native Studies University of Alberta Ask any Canadian what “Métis” means, and they will likely say “mixed race” or “part Indian, part white.” Canadians…

  • Whose Sperm Counts? Nursing Clio: Because the Personal is Historical 2014-08-19 Lara Freidenfelds, Historian of Sex, Reproduction, and Women’s Health in America Recently, a Canadian fertility clinic made the news because it refused to allow a white client to be impregnated with sperm from a donor of color. The clinic director told the media, “I’m…

  • Global Mixed Race New York University Press March 2014 357 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780814770733 Paper ISBN: 9780814789155 Edited by: Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain, Senior Lecturer National University of Ireland, Maynooth Stephen Small, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of California, Berkeley Minelle Mahtani, Associate Professor in the Department of Human Geography and the Program in…

  • Mixed Mondays Film Series at the Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generatons Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street Brooklyn, New York 11201 Mondays, 2014-08-04 through  2014-08-18, 18:30 EDT (Local Time) Hosted by and post-screening discussion with: Erica Chito Childs, Professor of Sociology (author of Navigating Interracial Borders and Fade to Black and White: Interracial Images in…

  • Skewing the Data: Mixed-Race Identity & the Problem of Counting for Race Lucia Lorenzi: the body politic: musings and meanderings 2014-04-13 Lucia Lorenzi University of British Columbia A few weeks ago, I attended a panel hosted by the Institute for Gender, Race, and Sexuality at the University of British Columbia, entitled “CWILA and the Problem…

  • First Métis Families of Quebec, 1622-1748. Volume 1: Fifty-Six Families Genealogical Publishing Company 2012 226 pages 8½” x 11” Paperback ISBN: 9780806355610 Gail Morin The term Métis originally referred to the offspring produced from the intermarriage of early French fur traders with Canadian Native Americans. Later, there were also Anglo Métis (known as “Countryborn”)–children of…

  • No ‘rainbow families’: Ethnic donor stipulation at fertility centre ‘floors’ local woman Calgary Herald Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2014-07-25 Jessica Barrett A Calgary woman says she was shocked to learn of a policy at the city’s only fertility treatment centre that restricts patients from using sperm, eggs or embryos from donors who do not match their…

  • CNST 419 – The Metis People of Canada University of Calgary Fall 2013 An interdisciplinary study of the Metis people of Canada, with special emphasis on the social, economic, and political factors influencing their emergence and continued survival as a distinct indigenous group in Canada. (formerly Canadian Studies 401.04) For more information, click here.

  • Strangers in Blood: Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country University of Oklahoma Press 1996 292 pages 6 x 9 in. Paperback ISBN: 9780806128139 Jennifer S.H. Brown, Professor of History University of Winnipeg For two centuries (1670-1870), English, Scottish, and Canadian fur traders voyaged the myriad waterways of Rupert’s Land, the vast territory charted to…