Category: Canada

  • The Rise and Decline of Hybrid (Metis) Societies on the Frontier of Western Canada and Southern Africa The Canadian Journal of Native Studies Volume 3, Number 1 (1983) (Special Issue on the Metis) ISSN  0715-3244 Alvin Kienetz A comparison of the development of the Metis in Canada and similar peoples in Southern Africa reveals some…

  • This anthology of poetry, spoken word, fiction, creative non-fiction, spoken word texts, as well as black and white artwork and photography, explores the question of how mixed-race women in North America identify in the twenty-first century.

  • North of America: Racial hybridity and Canada’s (non)place in inter-American discourse Comparative American Studies: An International Journal Volume 3, Number 1 (March 2005) pages 79-88 DOI: 10.1177/1477570005050951 Albert Braz, Associate Professor of English University of Alberta, Canada Canada is one of the largest countries in the Americas, indeed the world. Yet, for such a territorial…

  • Métis, mixed-ness and music: Aboriginal-Ukrainian encounters and cultural production on the Canadian prairies The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies University of Washington Canadian Studies Center Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall Wednesday, 2011-04-20 19:00 PDT (Local Time) Marcia Ostashewski, Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Canadian Studies Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal intermarriages, often described as “mixed-race,” have been the…

  • “The devil made the mulatto”: Race, religion and respectability in a Black Atlantic, 1931-2005 University of Toronto 2007 312 pages Publication Number: AAT NR39517 ISBN: 9780494395172 Daniel R. McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Newcastle University, United Kingdom According to The Historical Journal there has only been one scholarly study of mixed- race history.…

  • Constructing Whiteness: Regulating Aboriginal identity University of Toronto 2009 93 pages Publication Number: AAT MR59722 ISBN: 9780494597224 Rebecca Boock A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts Graduate Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education Ontario Institute for Studies in Education University of Toronto Curricula in classrooms…

  • Re-imagining mixed race: Explorations of multiracial discourse in Canada York University December 2008 190 pages ISBN: 9780494517864 Publication Number: AAT NR51786 Leanne Taylor A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of graduate Studies in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy This dissertation analyses discourses of racial mixture, with particular focus…

  • Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference DePaul University, Lincoln Park Campus DePaul University Student Center 2250 N. Sheffield Chicago, Illinois USA 60614 2010-11-05 through 2010-11-06 Sponsored by DePaul University Asian American Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies and co-sponsored by the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University and the MAVIN Foundation. “Emerging…

  • Neither Strange Nor Familiar: Contemporary Approaches to Hybridity Location: TBD Toronto, Canada 2010-10-22 through 2010-10-23 Kenote Speaker Stephan Palmié, Professor of Anthroplogy University of Chicago We are pleased and excited to announce this interdisciplinary conference. The study of identity, whether from a sociological, ethnographic, anthropological or historical perspective, has been a widely debated topic. As…

  • ‘Half-breeds,’ racial opacity, and geographies of crime: law’s search for the ‘original’ Indian Cultural Geographies Volume 17, Number 4 (October 2010) pages 487-506 DOI: 10.1177/1474474010376012 Renisa Mawani, Associate Professor of Sociology The University of British Columbia, Canada Discussions of hybridity have proliferated in cultural geography and in social and cultural theory. What has often been…