Cultural History

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! Black and British A Lived Contradiction From: Thinking While Black View Between The Lines	This chapter detailed Paul Gilroy’s life after 1968 and his interest in the rebel spirit of black American and Caribbean musicians. Topics include British immigration policy, political …	Daniel McNeil	32	2022	$3.20 Add
From Canada and the Art of Ghosts From: Out of the Sun View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Edugyan explores how Canadian ghost stories preserve or erase collective memory, particularly the absence of Black lives from the national narrative.	Esi Edugyan	19	2021	$1.90 Add
From NEW! Coda On the Land From: Ghosts in a Photograph View NeWest Press	The conclusion reflects on the author’s life since buying her parents farm, writing her books, connecting two both her identities as Ukrainian and as Canadian, settler colonialism, and …	Myrna Kostash	17	2022	$1.70 Add
From NEW! Coda Guess Who’s Coming to the Awards Dinner From: Thinking While Black View Between The Lines	In this chapter the author reflects on Armond White’s and Paul Gilroy’s careers as film and culture critics and intellectuals within the rebel generation. The author specifically …	Daniel McNeil	20	2022	$2.00 Add
From NEW! Conclusion Culinary Carry-On From: What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings View Coach House Books	In the conclusion John Lorinc reflects on the family tree and map of dumplings, improvisation and change, tradition and culture.	John Lorinc	7	2022	$0.70 Add
From Conclusion The Immortal Uncle Tom From: Uncle View Coach House Books	In the concluding chapter, Thompson summarizes her arguments, and suggests that Uncle Tom is quite possibly the most resilient figure in American history.	Cheryl Thompson	5	2021	$0.50 Add
From Conclusion The Memory of Ourselves From: On Nostalgia View Coach House Books	Nostalgia is an acutely modern condition. As our future seems more in doubt, our past seems to offer more clarity and comfort. Beyond that, nostalgia helps us reconcile the dissonence of our …	David Berry	3	2020	$0.30 Add
From Dance and Song Before Story Was Flower Drum Song a Phantasy? From: Bigotry on Broadway View Baraka Books	Ishmael Reed interviews Shawn Wong regarding anti-Asian racism in Flower Drum Song, other theatre productions, and the industry at large.	Shawn Wong	18	2021	$1.80 Add
From NEW! Dumplingware: The Allure of Porcelain The Sauce From: What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings View Coach House Books	Marie Campbell discusses the history of chinaware, the silk road, porcelain and its ties to status, food history, and material culture.	Marie Campbell	5	2022	$0.50 Add
Earthkeeping love notes to tough times Goose Lane Editions	The author of Alder Music, Gary Saunders returns with an evocative, lyrical, and immersive collection of personal essays on our relationship with nature and with each other. In nine sections, …	Gary Saunders	316	2022	View
From Ecology From: Earthkeeping View Goose Lane Editions	Part Two contains the sections: Peeper Spring, Cornsequences, Chipmunk Penance, Nova Scotia’s 2003 Floods, A Calendar of Roadside Flowers, Tough Little Trees of the Fringe, Leaf Thief I and …	Gary Saunders	37	2022	$3.70 Add
From NEW! Enlarging the American Cinema Armond White vs. the Straight Middle-Class White World (and the Black Bourgeoisie) From: Thinking While Black View Between The Lines	In this chapter the author examines Armond White’s wildly overlooked film criticism of the 1980’s and 1990’s to shed light on his contributions to resistance aesthetics and film …	Daniel McNeil	44	2022	$4.40 Add
From NEW! Eternal Memory вічная пам’ять Vichnaia Pamiat’ From: Ghosts in a Photograph View NeWest Press	Chapter Eleven focuses on the lasting memory of her forbearers reflecting on their lives and deaths in both their birth places and their adopted homes of Canada.	Myrna Kostash	9	2022	$0.90 Add
From Europe and the Art of Seeing From: Out of the Sun View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Edugyan traces how European portraiture from the eighteenth century onward has framed, flattened, and contested Black identity across centuries.	Esi Edugyan	20	2021	$2.00 Add
From Everyone Tells My West Side Story but Me From: Bigotry on Broadway View Baraka Books	The author explores the history, storyline, and issues of West Side Story, looking at issues of typecasting and racism. The author argues that Puerto Ricans are not the ones telling their West …	Nancy Mercado	9	2021	$0.90 Add
Family Ties How a Ukrainian Nazi and a living witness link Canada to Ukraine today James Lorimer and Company	The standing ovation accorded in 2023 to a Second World War Ukrainian Nazi unit veteran in Canada’s House of Commons shocked Canadians – and the world. Author Peter McFarlane was not …	Peter McFarlane	274	2024	View