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  • The Debate: Multiracial Identity

    The Debate: Multiracial Identity The Agenda with Steve Paikin TVO (TV Ontario) Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2011-07-22, 20:00 EDT (Local Time) Also at: 2011-07-25, 05:00 EDT (Local Time) Piya Chattopadhyay, Host Guests (in order of appearance) Rainier Spencer, Director of the Afro-American Studies Program University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Author of three books on multiracialism including, Reproducing Race:…

  • Who is an Indian?: Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas

    Who is an Indian?: Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas University of Toronto Press August 2013 272 pages Paper ISBN: 9780802095527 Cloth ISBN: 9780802098184 Edited by: Maximilian C. Forte, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Who is an Indian? This is possibly the oldest question facing…

  • Research Project on “Mixed Race” Identity: Call for Participants

    Research Project on “Mixed Race” Identity: Call for Participants University of Alberta 2013-08-23 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 you as “mixed”? I am…

  • Rereading Pauline Johnson

    Rereading Pauline Johnson Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes Volume 46, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages 45-61 DOI: 10.1353/jcs.2012.0018 Carole Gerson, Professor of English Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada This essay argues for a broader appreciation of Pauline Johnson’s creative range and poetic accomplishment. Rereading her work in relation to some of J.…

  • Japanese-Canadian hapa woman makes opera fun

    Japanese-Canadian hapa woman makes opera fun Global Asian Women: Stories for and about Asian women around the world 2013-07-31 Elizabeth Noh Her name means a solo piece in an opera, and it just so happens that Aria Umezawa is a trained opera singer. The mixed Japanese-Canadian is also the co-founder and artistic director of Opera…

  • Are Mixed Race Couples and Families Still Fighting for Acceptance in Alberta?

    Are Mixed Race Couples and Families Still Fighting for Acceptance in Alberta? Alberta Primetime Edmonton, Alberta 2013-06-12 Jennifer Martin, Host Monica Das, Registered Psychologist Yvonne Breckenridge University of Alberta Alberta Primetime is a daily current affairs show airing weeknights from 7pm MST to 8pm MST. Airing across Alberta on CTV Two Alberta, Alberta Primetime drills…

  • A Conversation with Lawrence Hill

    A Conversation with Lawrence Hill Callaloo Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2013 pages 5-26 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2013.0072 Winfried Siemerling, Professor of English University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada When Paul Gilroy in The Black Atlantic offered an alternative account of modernity that placed transnational, black transatlantic lives and cultures at the center, Canada was not on his…

  • Homeland to Hinterland: The Changing Worlds of the Red River Métis in the Nineteenth Century

    In this social and economic history of the Métis of the Red River Settlement, specifically the parishes of St Francois-Xavier and St Andrew’s, Gerhard Ens argues that the Métis participated with growing confidence in two worlds: one Indian and pre-capitalist, the other European and capitalist. Ens maintains that Métis identity was not defined by biology…

  • Hamilton school board asks aboriginal families to “self identify”

    Hamilton school board asks aboriginal families to “self identify” CBC News Hamilton 2013-04-19 Taylor Ablett The Hamilton Wentworth District School Board is asking aboriginal families to “self identify” as First Nations, Métis, or Inuit. “We are encouraging families to self-identify because it will enable us to determine programming and supports to increase First Nation, Métis…

  • Imperial Relations: Histories of family in the British Empire

    Imperial Relations: Histories of family in the British Empire Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Volume 14, Number 1, Spring 2013 DOI: 10.1353/cch.2013.0006 Esme Cleall, Lecturer in the History University of Sheffield Laura Ishiguro, Professor of History University of British Columbia Emily J. Manktelow King’s College London In early 1860, Mary Moody gave birth to…