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  • Race Is a Four-Letter Word

    Race Is a Four-Letter Word National Film Board of Canada 2006 00:55:21 Sobaz Benjamin Speaking biologically, ‘race’ is a spectral concept. Black, brown, red, white, and yellow, considered purely as skin colours, merit no more significance than a tattoo. The ‘skin your’re in’ is about as meaningful as ectoplasm. Scientists remind us that not only…

  • The Colour of Beauty

    The Colour of Beauty National Film Board of Canada 2010 00:16:50 Elizabeth St. Philip Renee Thompson is trying to make it as a top fashion model in New York. She’s got the looks, the walk and the drive. But she’s a black model in a world where white women represent the standard of beauty. Agencies…

  • Between: Living in the Hyphen

    Anne Marie Nakagawa’s documentary examines what it means to have a background of mixed ancestries that cannot be easily categorized.

  • A Curious Confluence: Where Racism & Privilege Collide

    When two sources of water come together to form one body, it is called a confluence. This is a place where two distinct sources of water crash and tumble over each other, churning and frothing. Here, a new river is born that cuts through the terrain as a single system. Some of these amalgamated rivers…

  • What’s in a name? Exploring the employment of ‘mixed race’ as an identification

    What’s in a name? Exploring the employment of  ‘mixed race’ as an identification Ethnicities Volume 2, Number 4 (December 2002) pages 469-490 DOI: 10.1177/14687968020020040201 Minelle Mahtani, Professor of Geography and Journalism University of Toronto In the last 20 years, we have witnessed an explosion in scholarship and popular media accounts about the experience of ‘mixed race’…

  • Interview with Mixed In Canada’s Rema Tavares

    Interview with Mixed In Canada’s Rema Tavares 100% Mixed Show 2012-03-12 Phil Koo Mixed-Me founder Rema Tavares talks about her website.

  • Privilege check, one two, one too…

    Privilege check, one two, one too… Mixed in Canada 2013-04-01 MIC is taking on “Mixed Privilege” in an effort to decolonize & deconstruct the various social privileges that some of us may benefit from. Recognizing our privilege is arguably one of the most important steps in anti-oppression work, as it allows us to connect in…

  • kiyâm

    kiyâm Athabasca University Press May 2012 144 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-926836-69-0 eBook (PDF) ISBN: 978-1-926836-70-6 eBook (EPub) ISBN: 978-1-926836-71-3 Naomi McIlwraith Through poems that move between the two languages, McIlwraith explores the beauty of the intersection between nêhiyawêwin, the Plains Cree language, and English, âkayâsîmowin. Written to honour her father’s facility in nêhiyawêwin and her…

  • DNA unlocks family secrets of the Chinese juggler, the enigmatic sea-captain and more

    DNA unlocks family secrets of the Chinese juggler, the enigmatic sea-captain and more The Globe and Mail Toronto, Canada 2013-03-23 Carolyn Abraham, Special to The Globe and Mail The birth of my first child made me see the past through a new lens: how it’s never lost, not completely; we carry it with us, in…

  • POWER: Post-racial Canada still a dream

    POWER: Post-racial Canada still a dream The Chronicle Herald Halifax, Nova Scotia 2013-03-17 Megan Power And we’re reluctant to face it, says Hill Calling Canada a multicultural paradise is simply delusional, says author Lawrence Hill.   He made his comments prior to a public reading in Halifax last week, in which he was candid and…