Category: Canada

  • Any Known Blood Harper Collins Canada 2001-09-20 528 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780006391760; ISBN10: 0006391761 Lawrence Hill Langston Cane V is 38, divorced and working as a government speechwriter, until he’s fired for sabotaging the minister’s speech. It seems the perfect time for Langston, the eldest son of a white mother and prominent black father, to…

  • Feminist Readings of Native American Literature: Coming to Voice University of Arizona Press 1998 181 pages 6.0 x 9.0 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8165-1633-9 Kathleen M. Donovan, Professor and Department Head of English South Dakota State University, Brookings Who in a society can speak, and under what circumstances? These questions are at the heart of both Native…

  • Biracial and Multiracial Students: New Directions for Student Services, Number 123 Jossey-Bass an imprint of John Wiley & Sons October 2008 88 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-470-42219-9 Edited by Kristen A. Renn, Associate Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education Michigan State University Paul Shang, Assistant Vice President and Dean of Students University of Oregon Editors…

  • On a May morning in 1939, eighteen-year-old Velma Demerson and her lover were having breakfast when two police officers arrived to take her away. Her crime was loving a Chinese man, a “crime” that was compounded by her pregnancy and subsequent mixed-race child.

  • The search for a Metis identity and what constitutes that identity is a key issue facing many Aboriginals of mixed ancestry today. “The People Who Own Themselves” reconstructs 250 years of the Desjarlais’ family history across a substantial area of North America, from colonial Louisiana, the St. Louis, Missouri region, and the American Southwest to…

  • “Real” Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood University of Nebraska Press 2004 303 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-8037-3 Bonita Lawrence, Associate Professor York University, Ontario, Canada Mixed-blood urban Native peoples in Canada are profoundly affected by federal legislation that divides Aboriginal peoples into different legal categories. In this pathfinding book, Bonita Lawrence…

  • An Unexpected Blackness Transition: An International Review Feb 2009 No. 100 Pages 112-132 Naomi Pabst, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and American Studies Yale University What does it mean to be of African descent while residing in Canada, where the hypodescent rule does not hold sway?  Naomi Pabst reflects upon the complexity of life…

  • Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples (Second Edition) University of Illinois Press 1993 Paper: 978-0-252-06321-3 352 pages Jack D. Forbes, Professor Emeritus. Native American Studies and Anthropology University of California, Davis This volume will revise the way we look at the modern populations of Latin America and…

  • Hybridity and its Discontents: Politics, Science, Culture Routledge 2000-08-24 320 pages Trim Size: 234×156 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-19402-0 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-19403-7 Edited by Avtar Brah, Professor in Sociology Birbek University of London Annie Coombes, Professor of Material and Visual Culture Birkbeck University of London Hybridity and its Discontents explores the history and experience of ‘hybridity’ –…

  • Mixing Race, Mixing Culture: Inter-American Literary Dialogues University of Texas Press 2002 6 x 9 in. 324 pp., 4 photos, 1 chart ISBN: 978-0-292-74348-9 Print-on-demand title Edited by Monika Kaup, Assistant Professor of English University of Washington, Seattle Debra Rosenthal, Assistant Professor of English John Carroll University Over the last five centuries, the story of…