From ground zero of this country's most important project: reconciliation Niigaan Sinclair has been called provocative, revolutionary, and one of this country's most influential thinkers on the issues impacting Indigenous cultures,...
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Auteur:Sinclair, NiigaanSommaire: - Auteur:Feldman, Jacquetta NammarSommaire:
An Arab American girl named Yasmeen moves to San Antonio with her family and navigates finding friendship, and herself.
- Auteur:Fletcher, RaquelSommaire:
What does diversity mean for the Quebec identity? Who gets to consider themselves a Quebecer? The author, a young journalist who moved to Quebec City from Saskatchewan, has some critical questions for the adopted province she loves. Are...
- Auteur:Boschman, RobertSommaire:
A moving, unflinching exploration of life in Prince Albert on Treaty Six territory, as told through one family's multigenerational story.
Robert Boschman grew up in the living quarters of the King Koin Launderette in Prince...
- Auteur:Keeptwo, SuzanneSommaire:
Land Acknowledgements often begin academic conferences, cultural events, government press conferences, and even hockey games. They are supposed to be an act of Reconciliation between Indigenous people in Canada and non-Indigenous...
- Auteur:Izgil, Tahir HamutSommaire:
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, awarded to the best first book of the year Named one of the best books of the year by: THE NEW YORK TIMES - THE WASHINGTON POST - THE ECONOMIST - TIME A poet's account...
- Auteur:Reynolds, GrahamSommaire:
In 1946, a Black Halifax businesswoman, Viola Desmond, was wrongfully arrested for sitting in a white's-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In 2010, sixty-four years later, the Nova Scotia government...
- Auteur:Robson, Wanda, Reynolds, GrahamSommaire:
For many Canadians, the first introduction to Viola Desmond will have been was seeing her portrait on the new $10 banknote. Those who are familiar with her life Others know that she was wrongfully arrested in 1946 for refusing to give...
- Auteur:Sanderson, Douglas, Sniderman, Andrew Michael StoboSommaire:
A heartrending true story about racial injustice, residential schools and a path forward. Divided by a beautiful valley and 150 years of racism, the Waywayseecappo reserve and the town of Rossburn have been neighbours nearly as long as...
- Auteur:Wente, JesseSommaire:
Part memoir and part manifesto, Unreconciled is a stirring call to arms to put truth over the flawed concept of reconciliation, and to build a new, respectful relationship between the nation of Canada and Indigenous peoples. Jesse Wente...
- Auteur:Dhamoon, Rita, Bhandar, Davina, Mawani, Renisa, Bains, Satwinder KaurSommaire:
In 1914, the SS Komagata Maru arrived in Vancouver Harbour and was detained for two months. Most of its 376 passengers were then forcibly returned to India. Unmooring the Komagata Maru challenges conventional Canadian historical...
- Auteur:Househ, Mowafa SaidSommaire:
Mowafa Said Househ's family fled Palestine in 1948 and arrived in Canada in the 1970s. He spent his childhood in Edmonton, Alberta, where he grew up as a visible minority and a Muslim whose family had a deeply fractured history. In the...
- Auteur:Macpherson, MargaretSommaire:
In this challenging memoir about her formative years in Yellowknife in the '60s and '70s, author Margaret Macpherson lays bare her own white privilege, her multitude of unexamined microaggressions, and how her childhood was shaped by...
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Auteur:Herriot, TrevorSommaire:In the wake of colonization, in a landscape of loss and dispossession, can we rediscover ways to share the land with other creatures and one another? Towards a Prairie Atonement addresses this question by enlisting the help of a Métis...
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Auteur:Manuel, Arthur, Derrickson, Ronald M.Sommaire:In this book Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson challenge virtually everything that non-Indigenous Canadians believe about their relationship with Indigenous Peoples and the steps that are needed to place this relationship...
- Auteur:Mochkofsky, GracielaSommaire:
The remarkable true story of how one Peruvian carpenter led hundreds of Christians to Judaism, sparking a pilgrimage from the Andes to Israel and inspiring a wave of emerging Latin American Jewish communities Isak Dinesen Segundo...
- Auteur:Lee, ErikaSommaire:
In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. The Making of Asian America tells the little-known history of Asian Americans and their role in...
- Auteur:Green, NileSommaire:
In July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D'Arcy. Their mission was to master the modern sciences behind the rapid rise of Europe. Over the next four years, they lived both...
- Auteur:Abdel-Fattah, RandaSommaire:
Michael's parents are leaders of a new anti-immigrant political party called Aussie Values which is trying to halt the flood of refugees from the Middle East; Mina fled Afghanistan with her family ten years ago, and just wants to...
- Auteur:Desai, KiranSommaire:
Himalayas, 1986. Retired judge Jemubhai Patel lives with his cook and sixteen-year-old granddaughter, Sai. An Indian-Nepalese insurgency makes Jemubhai confront his past and interrupts Sai's romance with her Nepali tutor. Meanwhile...
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