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Rosie Douglas, former prime minister of Dominica, had a life unlike any other modern politician. After leaving home to study agriculture in Canada, he became a member of the young Conservatives, under the Canadian prime minister’s guidance. However, after he moved to...
Editeur :
Between the Lines
Parution :
2023-11-03
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In the 1960s, Montreal was a hotbed of radical politics that attracted Black and Caribbean figures such as C.L.R. James, Walter Rodney, Mariam Makeba, Stokely Carmichael, Rocky Jones, and Édouard Glissant. It was also a place where the ideas of Frantz Fanon, Aimé...
Editeur :
Between the Lines
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2023-04-18
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This uniquely interdisciplinary study of Black cultural critics Armond White and Paul Gilroy spans continents and decades of rebellion and revolution. Drawing on an eclectic mix of archival research, politics, film theory, and pop culture, Daniel McNeil examines two of...
Editeur :
Between the Lines
Parution :
2022-09-27
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A young Black woman documents the systemic racism in her high school diary and calls for justice and educational reform.The prevalence of anti-Black racism and its many faces, from racial profiling to police brutality, in North America is indisputable. How do we stop...
Editeur :
University of Regina Press
Parution :
2021-09-04
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In this hard-hitting anthology, Ishmael Reed and Carla Blank have invited a diverse group of informed and accomplished writers, both women and men, who are rarely heard to comment on the long-standing bigotry on Broadway towards many different ethnic minorities.
How do...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2021-08-30
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Plantation Memories is a compilation of episodes of everyday racism written in the form of short psychoanalytical stories. From the question “Where do you come from?” to Hair Politics to the N-word, the book is a strong, eloquent, and elaborate piece that deconstructs...
Editeur :
Between the Lines
Parution :
2021-05-01
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For many people, especially those who came of age after landmark civil rights legislation was passed, it is difficult to understand what it was like to be an African American living under Jim Crow segregation in the United States. Most young people have little or no...
Editeur :
Between the Lines
Parution :
2020-05-29
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Every year, hundreds of thousands of young people pack their bags to study or volunteer abroad. Well-intentioned and curious Westerners—brought up to believe that international travel broadens our horizons—travel to low-income countries to learn about people and...
Editeur :
Between the Lines
Parution :
2020-01-08
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What do we know of masculinities in non-patriarchal societies? Indigenous peoples of the Americas and beyond come from traditions of gender equity, complementarity, and the sacred feminine, concepts that were unimaginable and shocking to Euro-western peoples at contact....
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2015-11-06
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In acknowledging the possibility that as the world changes so too does racism, this book argues that racism is not disappearing, despite claims of living in a post-racial and multicultural world. To the contrary, racisms persist by transforming into different forms...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2014-04-29
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Canadian and international authors offer ground-breaking work in this
collection that brings together almost seventy articles by formative
feminist writers, researchers, activists and visionaries to illuminate
the profound globalizing processes of our...
Editeur :
Inanna Publications
Parution :
2013-05-30
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Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought is a collection of articles by Black Canadian feminists centralizing the ways in which Black femininity and Black women’s experiences are integral to understanding political and social frameworks in...
Editeur :
Inanna Publications
Parution :
2012-11-01
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Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out is an anthology of poetry, spoken word, fiction, creative non-fiction, spoken word texts, as well as black and white artwork and photography, explores the question of how mixed-race women in North America identify in the...
Editeur :
Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2012-11-01
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Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out s an anthology of
poetry, spoken word, fiction, creative non-fiction, spoken word texts,
as well as black and white artwork and photography, explores the
question of how mixed-race women in North America identify in the...
Editeur :
Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2012-11-01
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Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought is a collection of articles by Black Canadian feminists centralizing the ways in which Black femininity and Black women’s experiences are integral to understanding political and social frameworks in...
Editeur :
Inanna Publications
Parution :
2012-11-01
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Ishmael Reed goes too far, again! Just as the fugitive slaves went to Canada and challenged the prevailing view that slaves were well off under their masters,Ishmael Reed has gone all the way to Quebec—where this book is published—to challenge the widespread opinion...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2012-09-01
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Racial Attitudes in English-Canadian Fiction is a critical overview of the appearances and consequences of racism in English-Canadian fiction published between 1905 and 1980. Based on an analysis of traditional expressions in literature of group solidarity and...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2010-10-30
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Ever since Maurice Richard dazzled hockey fans, fighting his way to hockey’s summits, the issue of discrimination against Quebec hockey players has simmered on. NHL veteran Bob Sirois now demonstrates that unless Quebec hockey players are superstars they are less likely...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2010-10-01
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For Ishmael Reed, Barack Obama, like Michelangelo’s St. Anthony, is a tormented man, haunted by modern reincarnations of the demonic spirits used to break slaves. These were the “Nigger Breakers”—men like Edward Covey, who was handed the job of breaking Frederick...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2010-04-01
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After decades of extraordinary successes as a multicultural society, new debates are bubbling to the surface in Canada. The contributors to this volume examine the conflict between equality rights, as embedded in the Charter, and multiculturalism as policy and practice,...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2009-10-22
Collection :
Canadian Commentaries
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