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  • Interrogating Identities: Exploring Racism, Community and Belonging Among Mixed Race Youth in Canada

    Interrogating Identities: Exploring Racism, Community and Belonging Among Mixed Race Youth in Canada Centre for Culture, Identity and Education University of British Columbia 2008-04-02 Video Length: 00:27:20 Leanne Taylor York University Youth Research Symposium – Video-stream. (April 2, 2008). These video streams feature speakers from the Day-Long Youth Research Symposium and showcase the role of…

  • Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921

    Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921 University of British Columbia Press 2009-05-15 288 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780774816335 Paperback ISBN: 9780774816342 Renisa Mawani, Associate Professor of Sociology University of British Columbia Contemporary discussions of multiculturalism and pluralism remain politically charged in former settler societies. Colonial Proximities historicizes these contestations by illustrating…

  • Grad student explores questions of race through digital technology

    Grad student explores questions of race through digital technology News & Events York Univeristy, Toronto, Ontario 2010-01-28 The technology to turn oneself into a mixed-race avatar might be confined to movies, but Brian Banton plays with racial manipulations of himself online, wrote the Toronto Star (online) Jan. 27 [2010] in a story that included five photos…

  • Nooksack Tribe member explores multiracial culture

    Nooksack Tribe member explores multiracial culture The Bellingham Herald 2009-09-28 Dean Kahn Louie Gong grew up eating American Indian bread for breakfast and Chinese dinners cooked on a camp stove. In the evening, his Chinese and native relatives got together for mah-jongg. Gong’s mother was of French and Scottish descent. His father was half Chinese,…

  • Caught Between Cultures: Women, Writing & Subjectivities

    Caught Between Cultures: Women, Writing & Subjectivities Rodopi 2002 152 pages Hardback: 978-90-420-1378-0 / 90-420-1378-8 Paperback: 978-90-420-1368-1 / 90-420-1368-0 Edited by: Elizabeth Russell, Professor of Womens Studies and British Literature University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona The essays in this collection (on Canada, the USA, Australia and the UK) question and discuss the issues of cross-cultural…

  • The Future of Ethnicity Classifications

    The Future of Ethnicity Classifications  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Volume 35, Issue 9 November 2009 pages 1417 – 1435 DOI: 10.1080/13691830903125901 Peter J. Aspinall, Senior Research Fellow Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) University of Kent In the first decade of the twenty-first century, ‘diversity’ has emerged as a key value in its…

  • Confounding the Color Line: The Indian-Black Experience in North America

    “Confounding the Color Line” is an essential, interdisciplinary introduction to the myriad relationships forged for centuries between Indians and Blacks in North America. Since the days of slavery, the lives and destinies of Indians and Blacks have been entwined-thrown together through circumstance, institutional design, or personal choice. Cultural sharing and intermarriage have resulted in complex…

  • Assimilation and Racialism in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Colonial Policy

    Assimilation and Racialism in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Colonial Policy The American Historical Review 2005 Volume 110, Number 2 Saliha Belmessous, Research Fellow of History University of Syndey Although the idea of race is increasingly being historicized, its emergence in the context of French colonization remains shadowy. This is despite the fact that colonization was…

  • Mixed Race… Mixed Up?

    Mixed Race… Mixed Up? Presentation at the Canadian Critical Race Conference 2003 Charito Gailling Mee Lain Ling Our workshop will explore “mixed race experience” by referring to our own experiences as mixed race women. We are particularly interested in fostering discussion that critically examines racial binaries of whiteness vs non-whiteness and how mixed race voices…

  • Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada

    Now Hill, himself a child of a black father and white mother, brings us “Black Berry, Sweet Juice, Hill: On Being Black and White in Canada,” a provocative and unprecedented look at a timely and engrossing topic.