British Columbia
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From  White Supremacy — The Law of the Land |
Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel examines specific sections of the British North American (BNA) act and the founding of the reserve system in Canada with particular focus on Indigenous European … | Arthur Manuel | 5 | 2017 | $0.50 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  Democracy, BC-Style |
Historical review of provincial and municipal attempts at voting system reform. | Dennis Pilon | 22 | 2009 | $2.20 Add |
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From NEW! Dirty Books and Dirty LooksFrom: Vancouver Vice |
In this chapter, Chapman describes the Vice squad’s efforts to bring down the Wayne Harris crime ring, and how these were disrupted by the new mayor of Vancouver’s focus on … | Aaron Chapman | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From Party Politics in British Columbia: The Persistence of Polarization |
Analysis of the role of ideological and class-based distinctions as organizing principles in BC party politics at both the provincial and federal level. | Steven Phillips | 21 | 2009 | $2.10 Add |
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From  “The Lost Tribe of a Lost Tribe”Black British Columbia and the Poetics of Space From: Black Geographies |
- | Peter James Hudson | 23 | 2007 | $2.30 Add |
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From  Recognition politics and reconciliation fantasies: Liberal multiculturalism and the “Indian land question”From: Home and Native Land |
Explores the parallels and divergences between the distinct but linked projects of national reconstruction: the state-led project of multiculturalism and the state’s attempt to resolve its … | Brian Egan | 23 | 2011 | $2.30 Add |
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From NEW! The Fire This TimeFrom: Vancouver Vice |
This chapter focuses on the activities of "hustlers," the often-underage male sex workers in the West End. | Aaron Chapman | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! FramedFrom: Vancouver Vice |
This chapter details the creation of a new special police squad to address the rising number of sex workers on the streets of the West End. By merely displacing sex workers, this squad shifted … | Aaron Chapman | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! The FixFrom: Vancouver Vice |
In this chapter, Chapman explores an apparent suicide that may have been linked to Wayne Harris. | Aaron Chapman | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 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! 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 Era, Old Reality: The BC Legislature and Accountable Government |
Review of representative and responsible government in BC and assessments of parliamentary reforms. | Norman Ruff | 13 | 2009 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! ComprimisedFrom: Vancouver Vice |
In this chapter, Chapman described the end of the West End sex trade, and the consequences of this for Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. | Aaron Chapman | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! EpilogueFrom: Vancouver Vice |
The epilogue considers the subsequent history of the West End, from the AIDS epidemic to the dramatic transformation of the built neighborhood. | Aaron Chapman | 5 | 2021 | $0.50 Add |
