Category: Canada

  • Contours of a People: Metis Family, Mobility, and History University of Oklahoma Press 2012 520 pages Illustrations: 12 B&W Illus., 8 Maps, 16 Tables 6.125 x 9.25 in Paperback ISBN: 9780806144870 Edited by: Nicole St-Onge, Professor of History University of Ottawa Carolyn Podruchny, Associate Professor of History York University, Toronto Brenda Macdougall, Associate Professor of…

  • The Mestizo Concept: A Product of European Imperialism Onkwehón:we Rising: An Indigenouse Perspectic on Third Worldism & Revolution 2013-08-29 Jack D. Forbes, Professor Emeritus of Native American Studies University of California, Davis What is the concept of Mestizaje? What are its origins? What role does it have to play in the liberation, or rather the…

  • Owning my mixed-race identity: Why I don’t have to choose sides Salon Wednesday, 2014-03-12 Eternity E. Martis London, Ontario, Canada People can’t seem to understand that I’m not either black or Anglo-Pakistani, but all of the above My mother is Anglo-Pakistani and my father is Jamaican (and a quarter Chinese). I grew up with my…

  • Kaa-tipeyimishoyaahk – ‘We are those who own ourselves’: A Political History of Métis Self-Determination in the North-West, 1830-1870 University of Victoria, British Columbia 2014 394 pages Adam James Patrick Gaudry Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in the Department of Indigenous Governance This dissertation offers an…

  • Research Project on “Mixed Race” Identity: Call for Edmonton, Canada Area Participants University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada 2014-01-31 Jillian Paragg, Ph.D. Student Department of Sociology Are you of mixed racial background? Do you/have you identified as “mixed race”, “multiracial”, or with other “mixed” self-identifications (i.e. biracial, mulatto, eurasian, happa, creole etc.)? Do other people identify…

  • In 2007, Joseph Boyden, author of the bestselling novel Three Day Road and 2008 Giller Prize winner for Through Black Spruce, was invited by the Canadian Literature Centre | Centre de littérature canadienne to deliver the inaugural Henry Kreisel Lecture at the University of Alberta.

  • Defying Categorization: The Work of Suzette Mayr Canadian Woman Studies / Les Caheiers de la Femme Volume 23, Number 2 (2004) pages 71-75 Katie Petersen Le corpus littéraire de Suzette Mayr examine les croisements raciaux, la sexualité marginalisée et la formation de l’identité personnelle dans des espaces indéfinis. Ses recueils de poemès et ses nouvelles…

  • The Widows NeWest Press April 1998 256 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-896300-30-6 Suzette Mayr Hannelore, Clotilde, and Frau Schnadelhuber are three old women tired of living in a world which does not allow old women to be seen or heard. Deciding to shake their fists at such a world, the three women plot to go over…

  • “The Quiltings of Human Flesh”—Constructions of Racial Hybridity in Contemporary African-Canadian Literature University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany 2010-05-02 366 pages Heike Bast Dissertation to obtain the academic degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Division of the Humanities, University of Greifswald TABLE OF CONTENTS ‘RACE’ MATTERS’: A PERSONAL NOTE ON BELONGING 1. INTRODUCTION: ‘SOLE OR WHOLE’ –…

  • Is Race a Fiction? Ideas with Paul Kennedy CBC Radio-Canada 2013-12-04 Paul Kennedy, Host Blood ties you to family, country and race. Should it? Watch a live panel discussion with Lawrence Hill, Priscila Uppal, Hayden King and Karina Vernon moderated by Ideas host Paul Kennedy. What happens to personal identity when race is removed as…