Tag: Karina Vernon

  • Is Race a Fiction? Ideas with Paul Kennedy CBC Radio-Canada 2013-12-04 Paul Kennedy, Host Blood ties you to family, country and race. Should it? Watch a live panel discussion with Lawrence Hill, Priscila Uppal, Hayden King and Karina Vernon moderated by Ideas host Paul Kennedy. What happens to personal identity when race is removed as…

  • Blood: The Stuff of Life [Lecture] The CBC Massey Lectures CBC Radio-Canada 2013-11-04, 19:00Z (14:00 EST) Blood is a bold and enduring determinant of identity, race, gender, citizenship and belonging. But should it be? In this visual narrative based on excerpts from the 2013 Massey Lectures, Lawrence Hill explores the scientific and social history of…

  • Author Hill speaks on race, place, and identity at ‘City of Words’ series University of Toronto, Scharborough 2012-02-06 Kurt Kleiner Writer Lawrence Hill has always felt attachment to people, not places. Nevertheless, the place he grew up – Don Mills in the early 1960s – shaped him as a person and as a writer.  …

  • The First Black Prairie Novel: Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance’s Autobiography and the Repression of Prairie Blackness Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes Volume 45, Number 2 (Spring 2011) pages 31-57 E-ISSN: 1911-0251; Print ISSN: 0021-9495 DOI: 10.1353/jcs.2011.0022 Karina Vernon, Assistant Professor of English University of Toronto This essay situates Chief Buffalo Child’s Long Lance:…