Group identity
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Author:Khosravi, ShahramSummary: -
Author:Bonnell, YolandaSummary:Something is missing from Miskozi's life... so she goes on a search for herself and her culture, accompanied by her inner white girl, Waabishkizi, and guided by Ziibi, a manifestation of an ancestral river. Miskozi begins the journey...
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Author:See, LisaSummary:2018 Audie Award Finalist The thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been abandoned and adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family...
- Author:Linklater, AndroSummary:
Ranging from the late-eighteenth century to the present, a narrative history reveals how the boundaries and borders that formed both states and the nation as a whole created a sense of identity that is central to defining American...
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Author:Summary: - Author:Parasram, JiveshSummary:
The play's structure is based on the form of "prayers" pujas and yagnas, as practised in the Trinidadian Smarta tradition. Take d Milk, Nah? has been performed in Toronto and Vancouver, and will be performed in Ottawa, Toronto, and...
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Author:Paquet, GillesSummary:Ce tableau d'avancement examine le Canada français de la dernière moitié du XXe siècle et propose quelques repères utiles, souligne certains enlisements, avancées et retards, et cherche à comprendre son évolution malaisée à travers...
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Author:Coleman, William D., Brydon, DianaSummary:Faced with finding a livable response to globalization, many communities are renegotiating their identities and functions and, in some instances, entirely new communities are being formed. Renegotiating Community asks what happens to...
- Author:Walcott, RinaldoSummary:
Queer Returns returns us to the scene of multiculturalism, diaspora and queer through the lens of black expression, identity and the political. The essays question what it means to live in a multicultural society, how diaspora impacts...
- Author:Lamoureux, Sylvie A., Cotnam, MeganSummary:
Le rapport à l’identité linguistique est un thème fondamental dans les établissements scolaires de langue française en milieux minoritaires. Faisant écho à leurs préoccupations, cet ouvrage présente à la fois les récits identitaires de...
- Author:Morrison, Ian A.Summary:
In the past two decades, Québec has been racked by a series of controversies in which the religiosity of migrants and minorities has been represented as a threat to the province's once staunchly Catholic, and now resolutely...
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Author:Trépanier, AnneSummary:Les expressions politiques du Québec et du Canada donnent l'impression d'une quête identitaire perpétuelle. L'obsession du moi est passée du " je " au " nous ". Ce collectif pluridisciplinaire donne...
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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...
- Author:Voyageur, Cora Jane, Barnes, Barbara G.Summary:
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...
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Author:Hébert, Karine, Goyette, JulienSummary:Cet ouvrage montre que le patrimoine est un processus de part en part, mais un processus qui n’a rien d’abstrait. Le patrimoine, en effet, n’existe pas en dehors d’objets, d’institutions et d’acteurs ; il est également toujours situé –...
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Author:Gilbert, Anne, Bock, Michel, Thériault, Joseph-YvonSummary:Dans Les lieux de mémoire, Pierre Nora affirme que "la mémoire s'enracine dans le concret, l'espace, le geste, l'image et l'objet" (1984, xix). Entre lieux et mémoire adopte une perspective semblable et...
- Author:Ruthnum, NabenSummary:
No two curries are the same. This Curry asks why the dish is supposed to represent everything brown people eat, read, and do. Curry is a dish that doesn't quite exist, but, as this hilarious and sharp essay points out, a dish that...
- Author:Montell, AmandaSummary:
What causes people to join--and more importantly, stay in--extreme groups? We secretly want to know: Could it happen to me? Amanda Montell argues that, on some level, it already has.
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Author:Eaton, ChrisSummary:Chris Eaton, A Biography is a novel that arises from the idea that we have all been driven, at some point, to Google ourselves. And if you did, what did you find? That there are people out there who seem to have something in common with...
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Author:Brown, BreneSummary:A timely and important new book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture, from the #1 bestselling author of Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts...
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