Category: Canada

  • Telling “Forgotten” Métis Histories through Family, Community, and Individuals [Book Review] H-Net Reviews October 2009 Camie Augustus University of Saskatchewan David McNab, Ute Lischke, eds. The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007. viii + 386 pp. (paper), ISBN 978-0-88920-523-9. “We are still here.” This opening…

  • The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories Wilfrid Laurier University Press May 2007 370 pages ISBN13: 978-0-88920-523-9 Editors: Ute Lischke, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies Wilfrid Laurier University David T. McNab, Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies York University, Toronto Known as “Canada’s forgotten people,” the Métis have long…

  • Ushering children away from a “light grey world”: Dr. Daniel Hill III and his pursuit of a respectable Black Canadian community. Ontario History 2007-03-22 Daniel R. McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Newcastle University, United Kingdom This paper is about Dr. Daniel Hill III, the first director of the Ontario Human Rights Agency. Paying…

  • The Negotiation of Identities: Narratives of Mixed-Race Individuals in Canada Ontario lnstitute for Studies in Education University of Toronto 2001 170 Pages Mélanie Jane Knight University of Toronto A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Sociology and Equity Studies in Education Ontario Institute for Studies in Education…

  • Book Review/Compte rendu: Stanley R. Bailey, Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil Canadian Journal of Sociology Volume 35, Number 1 (2010) pages 189-191 Luisa Farah Schwartzman, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Toronto Stanley R. Bailey, Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009, 304 pp.…

  • Spaces of Multiraciality: Critical Mixed Race Theory University of Toronto Geography  (B.A.) Program 2010-2011 Course Number: GGRD19H3   From Tiger Woods to Mariah Carey, the popular mixed race phenomenon has captured the popular imagination and revealed the contradictory logic of categorization underpinning racial divisions. We will explore the complexities of racial identity formation to illuminate…

  • A portrait of couples in mixed unions Component of Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 11-008-X Canadian Social Trends 2010-04-20 pages 68-80 Anne Milan, Senior Analyst Demography Division Hélène Maheux, Analyst Immigration and Ethnocultural Section Tina Chui, Chief Immigration and Ethnocultural Section in the Social and Aboriginal Statistics Division As Canada‘s population continues to become ethnoculturally diverse,…

  • Canada’s mixing pot: Multiracial relationships growing at rapid pace National Post 2010-04-20 Mary Vallis The number of Canadians in mixed-race relationships and marriages is rising, still primarily a big city phenomenon, but a trend fuelled in part by romances in small cities, according to a new report released by Statistics Canada on Tuesday. Between 2001…

  • The identity development of mixed race individuals in Canada University of Alberta Spring 2010 131 pages Monica Das A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education in Psychological Studies in Education The purpose of this study was to explore…

  • In “One of the Family,” Brenda Macdougall draws on diverse written and oral sources and employs the concept of wahkootowin—the Cree term for a worldview that privileges family and values relatedness between all beings—to trace the emergence of a distinct Metis community at Île à la Crosse in northern Saskatchewan.