What does it mean to become a man in the Arctic today? Becoming Inummarik focuses on the lives of the first generation of men born and raised primarily in permanent settlements. Forced to balance the difficulties of schooling, jobs, and...
Social science
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Author:Collings, PeterSummary: - Author:Fung, AmySummary:
Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being is the debut collection of essays by Amy Fung. In it, Fung takes a closer examination at Canada's mythologies of multiculturalism, settler colonialism, and identity through the lens of a...
- Author:Rose, RebeccaSummary:
Before the Parade traces the beginnings of Halifax's gay, lesbian, and bisexual community. Journalist and activist Rebecca Rose melds insights and perspectives from the people at the forefront with a thoroughly researched,...
- Author:Glaude, Eddie S.Summary:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. In our own moment, when that confrontation feels more urgently needed than ever,...
- Author:Maykut, PamelaSummary:
The authors have focused this book on the serious, beginning, qualitative researcher - theoretically rigorous, yet with an understandable perspective.; The book has three main features. First, it provides a strong theoretical base for...
- Author:Weinrath, MichaelSummary:
Despite falling crime rates, more rights for inmates, and better training for correctional officers, Canada’s prisons are overflowing, and outbreaks of violence continue to grab headlines. Applying Goffman’s frame theory and drawing on...
- Author:John, Elnathan, Kona, Bongani, Sasis, Msingi, Ranchod, Sarita, Wanjala, Barbara, Allfrey, Ellah WakatamaSummary:
Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent. Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a...
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Being German Canadian explores how multi-generational families and groups have interacted and shaped each other's integration and adaptation in Canadian society, focusing on the experiences, histories, and memories of German...
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The voices of young female prostitutes offer a chorus of disturbing firsthand perspectives on sexual exploitation and the inadequacies of government programs designed to help them in this account of the sex trade. To provide a full...
- Author:Sjunneson, ElsaSummary:
A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else. As a deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing...
- Author:Madison, MeganSummary:
Based on the research that race, gender, consent, and body positivity should be discussed with toddlers on up, this read-aloud board book series, adapted for audio, offers adults the opportunity to begin important conversations with...
- Author:Hill, AnitaSummary:
“An elegant, impassioned demand that America see gender-based violence as a cultural and structural problem that hurts everyone, not just victims and survivors - It's at times downright virtuosic in the threads it weaves together...
- Author:Joseph, Porsche, Joseph, FrederickSummary:
Featuring over two dozen interviews with activists, authors, actors, and politicians, this is the essential resource for those of us who want to leave the world better than we found it.
- Author:Tate, NikkiSummary:
Better Together explores how people gather in groups of all kinds to fulfill the basic human need for companionship. From the smallest units of parents, siblings and friends to global organizations that try to build on a foundation of...
- Author:Salaam, YusefSummary:
Yusef Salaam shares his story of growing up Black in central Harlem in the 1980s--being raised by a strong, fierce mother and grandmother--his years of incarceration, his reentry, and exoneration. Yusef connects these stories to lessons...
- Author:Selby, Jennifer, Barras, Amelie, Beaman, Lori G.Summary:
Problems – of integration, failed political participation, and requests for various kinds of accommodation – seem to dominate the research on minority Muslims in Western nations. Beyond Accommodation offers a different perspective,...
- Author:Mallea, Paula, Latimer, CatherineSummary:
A call to replace Canada’s incarceration model, which has proven destructive, discriminatory, expensive, counterproductive, and — most of all — unnecessary. Imprisonment developed in the Western world as the punishment to suit all...
- Author:High, StevenSummary:
Survivors of terrible events are often portrayed as unsung heroes or tragic victims but rarely as complex human beings whose lives extend beyond the stories they have told. The contributors to Beyond Testimony and Trauma consider other...
- Author:Gervais, Christine L.M.Summary:
Beyond the Altar illustrates how women religious overcome sexist subjugation by side-stepping the patriarchal power of the Roman Catholic Church. This book counters the stereotypical image of Catholic nuns as being loyally compliant...
- Author:Urquhart, EmilySummary:
The story begins on St. Stephen's Day, 2010, in St. John's, NL, when the author gives birth to a baby girl named Sadie Jane who has a shock of snow-white hair. After three months of medical testing, Sadie is diagnosed with albinism, a...
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