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From  NEW! 360 Walk ScriptFrom: White Riot |
This chapter includes a print version of the complete 360 Riot Walk. It includes the script and illustrations for each stop on the tour. | Henry Tsang; Michael Barnholden | 48 | 2023 | $4.80 Add |
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From  NEW! A Bad CollarFrom: Vancouver Vice |
This chapter examines the West End at the beginning of the 1980s, a situation Maclean’s magazine called "a curbside brothel open from noon to 4 a.m., seven days a week." It also … | Aaron Chapman | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! A Changing Chinatown: On Gentrification and ResilienceFrom: White Riot |
In this chapter, Ma explores Vancouver’s Chinatown: its history, the impact of gentrification and new urban developments, and the resilience of its community members. | Melody 馬勻雅 Ma | 8 | 2023 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! An Urban Rights Praxis of Remaining In Vancouver’s Downtown EastsideFrom: White Riot |
This chapter provides historical background of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) and discusses its importance as an affordable neighborhood amidst gentrification and a rampant housing crisis. | Aaron Franks; Audrey Kobayashi; Jeffrey R. Masuda; the Right to Remain Research Collective; Trevor Wideman | 12 | 2023 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Bars and BathhousesFrom: Vancouver Vice |
This chapter concentrates on Faces, an early West End gay club, and Wayne Harris, a club member who later became the focus of a major vice squad investigation. | Aaron Chapman | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From  BC as an Intergovernmental Relations Player: Still Punching Below Its Weight? |
Historical review of intergovernmental relations leading to an assessment of the current government’s performance on the matter. | Hamish Telford | 20 | 2009 | $2.00 Add |
 Black Geographiesand the Politics of Place |
Black Geographies and the Politics of Place is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in black geographic theory. Fourteen authors address specific geographic sites and develop their … | Katherine McKittrick | 272 | 2007 | View |
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From NEW! Call Girls and BoysFrom: Vancouver Vice |
This chapter explores the history of the sex trade in the West End,from the 1930s to 1975. | Aaron Chapman | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! Census Making and City Building:Data Perspectives on the 1907 Anti-Asian Riots and the Development of Vancouver From: White Riot |
In this chapter, Yan provides critical context to understanding the 1907 anti-Asian riots in Vancouver. Yan discusses the anti-Asian racism and the unreliable data that led to an inflated number … | Andy Yan | 18 | 2023 | $1.80 Add |
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From  We Stole it Fair and Square |
Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel analyzes how Europeans settlers and their governments asserted ownership of the land in Canada — characterizing it as straighforward theft. He uses the … | Arthur Manuel | 6 | 2017 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 1: QuerenciaFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter recounts the early life and background of Serafim Fortes. Included is an image of a handwritten note signed by Serafim. | Ruby Smith Diaz | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 2: He Always Followed the SeaFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter further discusses Serafim’s early life, him leaving his home in Kairi, his travels and treatment while sailing on the Robert Kerr. | Ruby Smith Diaz | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 3: All Crab Find Dey HoleFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter details how the crew aboard the Robert Kerr, including Serafim, came to land in Vancouver and the communities settling on the land at this time. | Ruby Smith Diaz | 16 | 2025 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 4: Reading Between the Lines of White SupremacyFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter discusses the impact racism and white supremacy had on the preservation of Black history in Vancouver and why it made difficult for Díaz to locate true details of … | Ruby Smith Diaz | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 5: Quantifying MelaninFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter uses archival materials to showcase the ways Serafim’s Blackness was quantified, classified and written about by white residents in Vancouver, a practice that has throughout … | Ruby Smith Diaz | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 5: The West and the Wheat Economy, 1890-1929 |
This chapter examines development across Canada including the vast amounts of immigration that fuelled the resource-based economy in British Columbia and the wheat economy of the Prairies. | Bryan D. Palmer | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
