Category: Canada

  • The Black Peril and Miscegenation: The Regulation of Inter-racial Sexual Relations in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1933 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada September 1991 140 Pages Katherine Gombay A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree  of M.A. For over forty years, at the turn…

  • Kept in, kept out: the Formation of Racial Identity in Brazil, 1930-1937 Simon Fraser University November 1996 95 pages Veronica Armstrong Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Latin American Studies Program This thesis examines the roles of historian Gilberto Freyre and the Sao Paulo…

  • The Historiography of Métis Land Dispersal, 1870-1890 Manitoba History Number 30, Autumn 1995 Brad Milne History Department University of Manitoba The Manitoba Act of 1870 provided substantial land grants to the Métis at Red River. Section 31 set aside 1.4 million acres of land for distribution among the children of Métis heads of families residing…

  • This is the first book to place the self-fashioning of mixed-race individuals in the context of a Black Atlantic. Drawing on a wide range of sources and a diverse cast of characters – from the diaries, letters, novels and plays of femme fatales in Congo and the United States to the advertisements, dissertations, oral histories…

  • Real Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood [Review by Steve George] Ethnicities Volume 27, Number 2 (2005) Pages 272–274 Steve George Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland Real Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood. By Bonita Lawrence. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004. Pp. 303, bibliography, index,…

  • Canada’s famous first black doctor National Review of Medicine Montreal, Quebec, Canada Volume 1, Number 4 (2004-02-28) Marvin Ross Born in Toronto in 1837, Dr Anderson Abbott was a close friend of Abe Lincoln but refused to serve in the US Colored Troops Not only was Anderson Ruffin Abbott the first black man to graduate…

  • Black & White: Search for roots uncovers forgotten family secret National Post Toronto, Canada 2012-02-17 Sarah Boesveld, General Assignment Writer About 20 years ago, David Dossett watched his grandfather politely shut down a woman who called to say she was a relative and that their family had come to Canada from Jamaica and that they…

  • Mahtani wins prestigious geography award Inside UTSC University of Toronto, Scarborough 2012-03-29 Minelle Mahtani won the Glenda Laws Award for geography, which is given to early and mid-career scholars for outstanding contributions to geographical research on social issues.   It is administered by the Association of American Geographers, and endorsed by the Institute of Australian…

  • Marion: The Story of an Artist’s Model McGill-Queen’s University Press 2012-03-19 410 pages 21 b&w photos 6 x 9 Paper (077353962X) 9780773539624 Winnifred Eaton (1875-1954) Introduction by: Karen E. H. Skinazi, Lecturer Princeton Writing Program Princeton University The daughter of an English merchant father and Chinese mother, Winnifred Eaton (1875-1954) was a wildly popular fiction…

  • Driving FORCE Métis community significant economic resource Winnipeg Free Press 2012-03-17 Barbara Bowes Although time has passed quickly, I’m sure you’ll recall that Manitoba recently celebrated Louis Riel Day. For most people, Louis Riel Day is simply another statutory holiday while for others, it is recognition that the Métis people were the driving force behind…