Category: Canada

  • Making (mixed-)race: census politics and the emergence of multiracial multiculturalism in the United States, Great Britain and Canada Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 35, Issue 8, 2012 pages 1409-1426 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.556194 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University During the same time period, the United States, Great Britain and Canada all moved towards…

  • Segregated Miscegenation: On the Treatment of Racial Hybridity in the North American and Latin American Literary Traditions Routledge 2003-02-28 Pages: 144 Trim Size: 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-94349-9 Carlos Hiraldo, Professor of English LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York Through the comparative study of literatures from the United States and Latin America,…

  • As We Are Now: Mixblood Essays on Race and Identity University of California Press January 1998 282 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780520210738 edited by William S. Penn, Professor of Creative Writing Michigan State University The thirteen contributors to As We Are Now invite readers to explore with them the untamed territory of race and mixblood identity…

  • Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas Ashgate Publishing July 2007 218 pages 219 x 153 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7546-5189-5 Edited by Nora E. Jaffary, Associate Professor of History Concordia University, Montreal, Canada When Europe introduced mechanisms to control New World territories, resources and populations, women-whether African, indigenous, mixed race, or European-responded…

  • Seven Hours To Burn Women Make Movies USA/Canada, 1999 9 minutes Color/BW, VHS/16mm Order No. W01699 Shanti Thakur “A visually expressive personal documentary that explores a family’s history. Filmmaker Thakur mixes richly abstract filmmaking with disturbing archival war footage to narrate the story of her Danish mother’s and Indian father’s experiences. Her mother survives Nazi-occupied…

  • Issues for Racially Diverse Families A Research Project for the Capital Region Race Relations Association, Victoria [Canada] 2003 41 pages Elias Cheboud (1959-2010), Adjunct Professor of Social Work University of Victoria, Canada Christine Downing, Project Coordinator Multiracial Family Project This report explores the experience of members of racially mixed families in Victoria, BC. Six themes…

  • Trans/formative identities: narrations of decolonization in mixed-race and transgender lives University of Victoria 2007 114 pages Sarah E. Hunt A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Interdisciplinary in the Department of Women’s Studies and the Department of Anthropology This interdisciplinary research paper explores story and metaphor…

  • The Catholic Church and the Formation of Metis Identity Past Imperfect Volume 9 (2001) pages 65-87 Jacinthe Duval This essay explores the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and the Metis in the Red River colony in the nineteenth century. It demonstrates how missionaries, via their intellectual artifacts, have been responsible for shaping popular contemporary…

  • An Exploration of the Experiences of Inter-racial Couples Canadian Journal of Family and Youth (Le Journal Canadien de Famille et de la Jeunesse) Volume 1, Number 2 (2008) pages 75-111 ISSN: 1718-9748 Temitope Oriola Department of Sociology University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada This study utilizes in-depth interviews of five interracial heterosexual couples to explore how…

  • Moya `Tipimsook (“The People Who Aren’t Their Own Bosses”): Racialization and the Misrecognition of “Métis” in Upper Great Lakes Ethnohistory Volume 58, Number 1 (Winter 2011) pages 37-63 DOI: 10.1215/00141801-2010-063 Chris Andersen, Associate Professor of Native Studies University of Alberta Scholars have long noted the central place of racialization in the last five centuries of…