From martyr to insult, how 'Uncle Tom' has influenced two centuries of racial politics.Jackie Robinson, President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, O.J. Simpson and Christopher Darden have all been accused...
Ethnic Studies
- Auteur:Thompson, CherylSommaire:
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Popularly thought of as a recreational vehicle and one of the key ingredients of an ideal wilderness getaway, the canoe is also a political vessel. A potent symbol and practice of Indigenous cultures and traditions, the canoe has also...
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"The Invisible Communityis a timely addition to the literature on immigrant integration in Quebec. The South Asian population of Quebec is generally understudied and this book helps fill that gap, providing English-language readers...
- Auteur:Methot, SuzanneSommaire:
Five hundred years of colonization have taken an incalculable toll on the Indigenous peoples of the Americas: substance use disorders and shockingly high rates of depression, diabetes, and other chronic health conditions brought on by...
- Auteur:Besada, Hany GamilSommaire:
A country's abundant natural resources may serve as a curse or a blessing, with the outcome often dependent on prevailing governance structures and experience managing these assets. Despite natural resource advantages, many African...
- Auteur:ten Kortenaar, NeilSommaire:
In the decade before and after independence, Nigerians not only adopted the novel but reinvented the genre. Nigerian novels imagined the new state, with its ideals of the rule of law, state sovereignty, and a centralized administration...
- Auteur:Rutherford, ScottSommaire:
Canada's Other Red Scare makes the case that Indigenous political protest during the '60s should be thought of as both local and transnational, an urgent exercise in confronting the experience of settler-colonialism in places...
- Auteur:Philip, M. NourbeSeSommaire:
Blank is a collection of previously out-of-print essays and new works by one of Canada's most important contemporary writers and thinkers.Through an engagement with her earlier work, M. NourbeSe Philip comes to realize the...
- Auteur:Simpson, Leanne BetasamosakeSommaire:
Across North America, Indigenous acts of resistance have in recent years opposed the removal of federal protections for forests and waterways in Indigenous lands, halted the expansion of tar sands extraction and the pipeline...
- Auteur:Milloy, John S.Sommaire:
'I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.' — Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923) '[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis,...