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 recognized...
Ethnic relations
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Author:Reynolds, GrahamSummary: -
Author:Dhamoon, Rita, Bhandar, Davina, Mawani, Renisa, Bains, Satwinder KaurSummary: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...
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Author:Herriot, TrevorSummary: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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Author:Summary:"The second edition of The Ethnicity Reader offers a comprehensive and challenging selection of readings for students of sociology, politics, international relations and race relations. Updated with a large proportion of new...
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Author:Sem-Sandberg, Steve, Death, SarahSummary:Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second-largest Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Lódz. Its chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year...
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Author:Freeman, JohnSummary:Thirty-six major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided America-including Anthony Doerr, Ann Patchett, Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, Hector Tobar, Joyce Carol Oates, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Russo, Eula Bliss, Karen...
- Author:Hunt, Dallas, Starblanket, GinaSummary:
Storying Violence explores the 2018 murder of Colten Boushie and the subsequent trial of Gerald Stanley. Through an analysis of relevant socio-political narratives in the prairies and scholarship on settler colonialism, the authors...
- Author:Dorries, Heather, Henry, Robert, Hugill, David, McCreary, Tyler, Tomiak, JulieSummary:
While cities like Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Saskatoon, Rapid City, Edmonton, Missoula, Regina, and Tulsa are places where Indigenous marginalization has been most acute, they have also long been sites of Indigenous placemaking and...
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Author:Storey, KentonSummary:During the 1850s and 1860s, there was considerable anxiety among British settlers over the potential for Indigenous rebellion and violence. Yet, publicly admitting to this fear would have gone counter to Victorian notions of racial...
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Why don’t more Métis people go to traditional ceremonies? How does going to ceremonies impact Métis identity? In Rekindling the Sacred Fire, Chantal Fiola investigates the relationship between Red River Métis ancestry, Anishinaabe...
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Author:Wallace, Sarah IsabelSummary:In the early 1900s, panic over the arrival of South Asian immigrants swept up and down the west coast of North America. While racism and fear of labour competition were at the heart of this furor, Not Fit to Stay reveals that public...
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Author:Kahn, LeonSummary:Growing up Jewish in the little town, or shtetl, of Eisiskes near the Polish-Lithuanian border, Leon Kahn experienced a peaceful childhood until September 1, 1939 when Hitler’s forces attacked Poland. Only sixteen years of age, Kahn...
- Author:Medres, Israel, Segal, J.I.Summary:
Winner of the 2001 Canadian Jewish Book Awards: Izzy and Betty Kirshenbaum Foundation Prize for Yiddish translation, Montreal of Yesterday was originally published in Yiddish in 1947. It had earlier appeared in installments in the pages...
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Author:Sowell, ThomasSummary:Thomas Sowell goes beyond the political view of immigration and presents the whole phenomena of migration and immigration and the major role it plays in the general advancement of the human race.
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Author:Gilbert, Anne, Veronis, Luisa, Brosseau, Marc, Ray, BrianSummary:La région d’Ottawa-Gatineau a quelque chose d’unique. Traversée par la frontière provinciale qui a la plus forte charge symbolique au pays, elle se caractérise par une dynamique particulière. De part et d’autre de la frontière, les...
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Author:Stiefel, Barry L., Rittenberg, David, Gruber, Samuel D.Summary:Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World is a blend of cultural and architectural history that examines Jewish heritage as it expanded among the continents and islands linked by the Atlantic Ocean between the mid-15th and early 19th...
- Author:Carter, SarahSummary:
Sarah Carter’s "Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies" examines the goals, aspirations, andchallenges met by women who sought land of their own. Supporters of British women...
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Author:Watts, Irene N.Summary:The play opens on 15 November 1938, six days after the launching of the government planned and sponsored anti-Semitic program called Kristallnacht'the Night of Broken Glass. It is the day that German State schools closed their doors...
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Author:Poelzer, Greg, Coates, Ken S.Summary:Canada is a country founded on relationships and agreements between Indigenous people and newcomers. Although recent court cases have strengthened Aboriginal rights, the cooperative spirit of the treaties is being lost as Canadians...
- Author:Cluskey, Emma McSummary:
In the wake of Europe's so-called refugee crisis in 2015 and 2016, even traditionally open countries such as Sweden and Germany adopted hostile policies on refugees, closing borders and linking refugees with terrorism and threats...
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