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  • Miscegenation Facts […From 1879]

    Miscegenation Facts […From 1879] Daily British Colonist Vicoria, British Columbia 1879-10-07 21st Year Page 1, 2nd Column David W. Higgins, Editor and Proprietor The child of colored parents of different tints, such as quadroon and mulatto, or mulatto and black, will be nearer to the tint of the darker parent.  If both parents of the…

  • My People Will Sleep for One Hundred Years: Story of a Métis Self

    My People Will Sleep for One Hundred Years: Story of a Métis Self University of Victoria 2004 106 pages Sylvia Rae Cottell, B.F.A. Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies…

  • Metis Identity Creation and Tactical Responses to Oppression and Racism

    Metis Identity Creation and Tactical Responses to Oppression and Racism Variegations Journal University of Victoria, Canada Volume 2 (2005) ISSN: 1708-9840 Cathy Richardson Indigenous Governance University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada As one of Canada’s founding Aboriginal people (Department of Justice Canada, 1982), the Metis exist at the periphery of the Canadian historical, cultural and social…

  • The role of Japanese as a heritage language in constructing ethnic identity among Hapa Japanese Canadian children

    The role of Japanese as a heritage language in constructing ethnic identity among Hapa Japanese Canadian children Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development Volume 30, Issue 1 (February 2009) pages 1-18 DOI: 10.1080/01434630802307874 Hiroko Noro, Professor of Pacific and Asian Studies University of Victoria, Canada Today, Japanese Canadians are marrying outside of their ethnic community…

  • Race – The Power of an Illusion

    Race – The Power of an Illusion California Newsreel – Film and video for social change since 1968 2003 3 Episodes, 56 minutes each DVD and VHS The division of the world’s peoples into distinct groups – “red,” “black,” “white” or “yellow” peoples – has became so deeply imbedded in our psyches, so widely accepted, many…

  • Integrating Multiple Identities: Multiracials and Asian-Americans in the United States (Review Essay)

    Integrating Multiple Identities: Multiracials and Asian-Americans in the United States (Review Essay) Canadian Journal of Sociology Volume 33, Number 2 (2008) pages 397-403 Wendy D. Roth, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of British Columbia, Canada Kimberly McClain DaCosta, Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line. Stanford: Stanford University Press,…

  • Multiracial Men in Toronto: Identities, Masculinities and Multiculturalism

    Multiracial Men in Toronto: Identities, Masculinities and Multiculturalism Masters Thesis of Education Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto 2009-12-11 Danielle Lafond University of Toronto This thesis draws from ten qualitative semi-structured interviews with multiracial men in Toronto. It is an exploratory study that examines…

  • Emerging whole from Native-Canadian relations: mixed ancestry narratives: a thesis

    Emerging whole from Native-Canadian relations: mixed ancestry narratives: a thesis University of British Columbia 1999-04-25 Dawn Marsden Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in the Department of Educational Stuides. After hundreds of years of contact, the relationships between the people of Native Nations and the Canadian Nation…

  • Theatrical Medicine: Aboriginal performance, ritual and commemoration

    Theatrical Medicine: Aboriginal performance, ritual and commemoration The Medicine Project 2008-03-25 Michelle La Flamme Dr. Michelle La Flamme is an Afro-NDN performer, activist and educator who completed a Ph.D. at UBC [University of British Columbia] in English literature (May 2006). In her other life, she is an avid performer and has worked in film and…

  • Living, writing and staging racial hybridity

    Living, writing and staging racial hybridity University of British Columbia January 2006 380 pages 37 photographs/illustrations Lisa Michelle La Flamme A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Contemporary Canadian literature and drama that features racial hybridity represents the racially hybrid…