Tag: University of Toronto

  • Our ongoing All Black Lives Matter event series is pleased to invite you to a film screening of Ines Johnson-Spain’s autobiographical documentary “Becoming Black”(2019).

  • My concern in this article is how American popular culture and mass media entertainment has become the foremost platform for racial meaning production, perpetuating false racial stereotypes, yet at the same time attempting to expose its own role as image-maker.

  • The Black German Heritage and Research Association (BGHRA) is collaborating with the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures and the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto in hosting the 3-day SSHRC-funded conference, “Transnational Perspectives on Black Germany” in Toronto, Ontario, on May 23-25, 2018.

  • The Discourse of Konketsuji: Racialized Representations of Biracial Japanese Children in the 1950s University of Toronto March 2017 79 pages Zachery Anthony Nelson A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Department of East Asian Studies University of Toronto This study examines textual representations of biracial Japanese children…

  • This thesis examines how non-white, mixed race women with Asian heritage understand, participate in, and resist colonialism, anti-blackness and anti-Indigeneity. The study finds that mixed race identification is contextual and shifts according to the racial make-up of spaces. Participants performed their identities in white spaces differently than in communities of colour. Although all participants could…

  • Setting Assumptions Aside: Exploring Identity Development in Interracial Intercultural Individuals Growing up in Japan University of Toronto 2001 280 pages Penny Sue Kinnear A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto…

  • Mahtani wins prestigious geography award Inside UTSC University of Toronto, Scarborough 2012-03-29 Minelle Mahtani won the Glenda Laws Award for geography, which is given to early and mid-career scholars for outstanding contributions to geographical research on social issues.   It is administered by the Association of American Geographers, and endorsed by the Institute of Australian…

  • Japanese-Canadian Identity Issues: One Big Hapa Family Screening with Jeff Chiba Stearns University of Toronto, St. George Hart House 2012-03-21, 18:30-20:30 EDT (Local Time) According to recent statistics, the rate of mixed marriages among Japanese-Canadians is at 70% with intermarriage at 95%. Why? Jeff Chiba Stearns attempts to address this phenomena and more with his…

  • 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 devil made the mulatto”: Race, religion and respectability in a Black Atlantic, 1931-2005 University of Toronto 2007 312 pages Publication Number: AAT NR39517 ISBN: 9780494395172 Daniel R. McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Newcastle University, United Kingdom According to The Historical Journal there has only been one scholarly study of mixed- race history.…