Exploring the way urbicide is used to un/re-make Palestine, as well as how it is employed as a tool of spatial dispossession and control, this book examines contemporary political violence and destruction in the context of colonial...
Ethnic identity
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Auteur:King, ThomasSommaire:In his 2003 Massey lecture, award-winning author and scholar Thomas King looks at the breadth and depth of Native experience and imagination. Beginning with Native oral stories, King weaves his way through literature and history,...
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Auteur:Sommaire:Known as "Canada's forgotten people," the Métis have long been here, but until 1982 they lacked the legal status of Native people. At that point, however, the Métis were recognized in the constitution as one of Canada's Aboriginal...
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Auteur:Kang, Jay CaspianSommaire:"A riveting blend of family history and original reportage by a conversation-starting writer for The New York Times Magazine that explores-and reimagines-Asian American identity in a Black and white world. In 1965, a new...
- Auteur:Temelini, WalterSommaire:
The Leamington Italian Community intertwines personal and family stories with both empirical and intuitive writing to offer new historical insights into the complex social, economic, and psychological causes and effects of the migration...
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Auteur:Downey, AllanSommaire:Lacrosse has been a central element of Indigenous cultures for centuries, but once non-Indigenous players entered the sport, it became a site of appropriation--then reclamation--of Indigenous identities. The Creator's Game focuses on...
- Auteur:Clair, Peter J.Sommaire:
This novel tells the story of two Mi'kmaq individuals, two centuries apart. A girl named Taapoategl shows incredible faithfulness to culture and family in the most difficult of circumstances during the mid-18th century colonization by...
- Auteur:Brina, Elizabeth MikiSommaire:
A searing, deeply candid memoir about a young woman's journey to understanding her complicated parents - her father a Vietnam veteran, her mother an Okinawan war bride - and her own, fraught cultural heritage. Elizabeth's...
- Auteur:Lorenzkowski, BarbaraSommaire:
Sounds of Ethnicity takes us into the linguistic, cultural, and geographical borderlands of German North America in the Great Lakes region between 1850 and 1914. Drawing connections between immigrant groups in Buffalo, New York, and...
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Immigrants often face considerable challenges when it comes to preserving their cultural and religious teachings. D. Mitra Barua argues that the Sri Lankan Buddhist community in Toronto has maintained its coherence and integrity not...
- Auteur:Dennis, DarrellSommaire:
Employing pop culture examples, personal anecdote and a cutting wit, Darrell Dennis deftly weaves history with current events to entertain, inform and provide a convincing, readable overview of First Nations issues and why they matter...
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Auteur:Hogue, MichelSommaire:Metis and the Medicine Line tells the remarkable story of the Plains Metis and the violent birth of the Canada/U.S. border.
- Auteur:McKegney, SamSommaire:
The legacy of the residential school system ripples throughout Native Canada, its fingerprints on the domestic violence, poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, and suicide rates that continue to cripple many Native communities. Magic Weapons...
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Auteur:Nawaz, ZarqaSommaire:Zarqa Nawaz has always straddled two cultures. She's just as likely to be agonizing over which sparkly earrings will 'pimp out' her hijab as to be flirting with the Walmart meat manager in a futile attempt to secure halal chicken the...
- Auteur:Voyageur, Cora Jane, Barnes, Barbara G.Sommaire:
"This book presents a study conducted between 2005 and 2010 of 60 self-declared Indigenous university students from western Canada. The study explored Indigenous identity formation among these students through these central research...
- Auteur:Soliman, NikkiSommaire:
Indig-enough is a self-awareness celebration of walking in two worlds. Whichever way you choose to present yourself to the world it is important to stand in your power and be true to yourself while holding onto your Traditional...
- Auteur:Belliveau, JoelSommaire:
The 1960s were a victorious decade for francophones in New Brunswick, who witnessed the election of the first Acadian premier and the opening of a French-language university. But in 1968, students took to the streets, demanding further...
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"In the decades since the passing of the Pamajewon ruling in Canada and the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act in the United States, gaming has come to play a crucial role in how Indigenous peoples are represented and read by both...
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Auteur:Innes, Robert AlexanderSommaire:Offers a detailed analysis of the role of Elder Brother stories in historical and contemporary kinship practices in Cowessess First Nation, located in southeastern Saskatchewan. Robert Innes reveals how these tradition-inspired...
- Auteur:Agger, HelenSommaire:
Dadibaajim narratives are of and from the land, born from experience and observation. Invoking this critical Anishinaabe methodology for teaching and learning, Helen Olsen Agger documents and reclaims the history, identity, and inherent...
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