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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! Survival of the Fattest Disabled 2S in the North From: Living Disability View Coach House Books	Valdine Alycia writes about their experience living in Northern Manitoba on Treaty 5 land as a fat, Two-Spirit person with roots in the Red River Métis Settlement. They relate these experiences …	Valdine Alycia	7	2024	$0.70 Add
From NEW! Syphilis From: Country of Poxes View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter 2 focuses on syphilis. Topics discussed include the debate around syphilis’ origins, the politics of colonialism, the “Columbian exchange”, the stages of syphilis, …	Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay	56	2022	$5.60 Add
From NEW! Systems and Institutions From: Killing the Wittigo View ECW Press	In this chapter, Methot describes indigenization and decolozination. She examines how colonial systems and institutions continue to uphold oppressive values and practices.	Suzanne Methot	26	2023	$2.60 Add
From NEW! Terror, Anger, Grief, Loss From: Killing the Wittigo View ECW Press	In the first chapter, Methot categorizes the traumatic implications of oppressive colonial tactics into historic trauma, impacts on 1st generation, intergenerational impacts, and continued …	Suzanne Methot	26	2023	$2.60 Add
From the seven sacred ways of healing From: The Care We Dream Of View Arsenal Pulp Press	The author begins the chapter with poetry and continues with their experience returning to their estranged relatives and indigenous community in a women-led healing ceremony.	jaye simpson	5	2021	$0.50 Add
From NEW! The Stories We Tell: Indigenous Women and Girls’ Narratives on Police Violence From: White Benevolence View Fernwood Publishing	In chapter 8, Megan Scribe critically examines Indigenous women and girls’ stories about police violence in prose and poetry to shed greater light on storytelling as a tool for justice and …	Megan Scribe	10	2022	$1.00 Add
From NEW! The Whiteness of Medicine From: White Benevolence View Fernwood Publishing	In chapter 13, Jaris Swidrovich examines how the whiteness of medicine has direct and detrimental impacts on access to care by Indigenous Peoples. Deeply rooted racism, whiteness and both …	Jaris Swidrovich	11	2022	$1.10 Add
From NEW! Toxic Encounters: What’s Whiteness Doing in a Nice Field Like Education? From: White Benevolence View Fernwood Publishing	In chapter 3, Sheelah McLean examines the effects of white settler colonialism on public education, looking mainly at how white supremacy is maintained through the repetition of everyday …	Sheelah McLean	14	2022	$1.40 Add
From NEW! Tracing the Harmful Patterns of White Settler Womanhood From: White Benevolence View Fernwood Publishing	In chapter 6, Willow Samara Allen considers the integral role white women have played in the ongoing settler-colonial project through the performance of benevolent white femininity, which …	Willow Samara Allen	18	2022	$1.80 Add
From NEW! Tuberculosis From: Country of Poxes View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter 4 focuses on tuberculosis. Discussing topics including the present persistence of tuberculosis into the twenty first century across the globe including in Canada, the long history of …	Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay	61	2022	$6.10 Add
From NEW! Unmasking the Whiteness of Nursing From: White Benevolence View Fernwood Publishing	In chapter 12, Sharissa Hantke uses the lens of antiracism to examine how whiteness operates in the field of nursing.	Sharissa Hantke	12	2022	$1.20 Add
From NEW! What Can “Settler of Colour” Teach Us?: A Conversation of the Complexities of Decolonization in White Universities From: White Benevolence View Fernwood Publishing	In chapter 10, Shaista Patel and Nisha Nath explore the idea of “settlers of colour,” in upholding ongoing colonial violence and Indigenous dispossession in North America. Building on …	Nisha Nath; Shaista Patel	17	2022	$1.70 Add
NEW! White Benevolence Racism and Colonial Violence in the Helping Professions	When working with Indigenous people, the helping professions —education, social work, health care and justice — reinforce the colonial lie that Indigenous people need saving. In White …		289		View
From NEW! White Entitlement in Antiracism and Anticolonialism From: White Benevolence View Fernwood Publishing	In chapter 16, Jeff Halvorsen, Régine King, Liza Lorenzetti, Adrian Wolfleg and Lemlem Haile discuss social justice as a core value of Social Work. Social justice is an aspirational charter …	Adrian Wolfleg; Jeff Halvorsen; Liza Lorenzetti; Régine King	17	2022	$1.70 Add