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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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Flying Fish in the Great White NorthThe Autonomous Migration of Black Barbadians |
Canadians are proud of their multicultural image both at home and abroad. But that image isn’t grounded in historical facts. As recently as the 1960s, the Canadian government enforced … | Christopher Stuart Taylor | 223 | 2016 | View |
NEW! Frequently Asked White Questions |
Are you a white person with questions about how race affects different situations, but you feel awkward, shy, or afraid to ask the people of colour in your life? Are you a racialized person who … | Ajay Parasram; Alex Khasnabish | 128 | 2022 | View |
From Bombs to BooksThe remarkable stories of refugee children and their families at two exceptional Canadian schools |
This book chronicles how schools in Canada can #&8212; and do — play a positive role in the day-to-day lives of refugee families. Written by a principal who has worked at of two of the … | David Starr | 232 | 2016 | View |
Gang Life10 of the toughest tell their stories |
For the first time, here’s a no-holds-barred inside account of life for criminal gang members in cities and towns across Canada. Mark Totten has slowly gained the confidence of gang members … | Mark Totten | 216 | 2014 | View |
Haircuts by Children and Other Evidence for a New Social Contract |
A cultural planner's immodest proposal: change how we think about children and we just might change the world. We live in an 'adultitarian' state, where the rules are based on … | Darren O'Donnell | 218 | 2018 | View |
Happily Ever OlderRevolutionary Approaches to Long-Term Care |
While Being Mortal (Atul Gawande) helped us understand disease and death, and Successful Aging (Daniel J. Levitin) showed us older years can be a time of joy and resilience, Happily Ever Older … | Moira Welsh | 253 | 2021 | View |
Hiding in Plain SightImmigrant Women and Domestic Violence |
Immigrant women are not only at greater risk of experiencing domestic violence but they also under-utilize mainstream services because their needs are not adequately met there. Understanding … | Wendy Chan | 136 | 2020 | View |
NEW! Holden After & BeforeLove Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose |
With poignant honesty and a heart laid bare, Holden After and Before is a beautiful and moving elegy to a son lost to overdose. Holden After and Before is a moving meditation on grief in the same … | Tara McGuire | 356 | 2022 | View |
NEW! Identifying as Arab in CanadaA Century of Immigration History |
While “Arabs” now attract considerable attention – from media, the state, and sociological studies – their history in Canada remains little known. Identifying as Arab in … | Houda Asal | 240 | 2020 | View |
Immigration and the Legalization of Racism |
“The chameleon-like nature of the law-the duplicitous ways in which the law is written, the equivocal way in which it is stated and, therefore, talked about, the hiding of the truth about … | Lisa Marie Jakubowski | 103 | 1996 | View |
NEW! Indigenous TorontoStories That Carry This Place |
Rich and diverse narratives of Indigenous Toronto, past and present Beneath many major North American cities rests a deep foundation of Indigenous history that has been colonized, paved over, … | Brian Wright-McLeod; Denise Bolduc; Mnawaate Gordon-Corbiere; Rebeka Tabobondung | 304 | 2021 | View |
IneligbleSingle Mothers Under Welfare Surveillance |
While the poor have always been monitored and surveilled by the state when seeking financial support, the methods, techniques, and capacity for surveillance within and across government … | Krys Maki | 224 | 2021 | View |
NEW! Inside OutThe Equity Leader’s Guide to Undoing Institutional Racism |
Providing a roadmap to workplace and organizational change, Inside Out is packed with practical tools for working collectively towards racial justice and dismantling institutional racism. This … | Caprice D. Hollins | 282 | 2022 | View |
NEW! Kaandossiwin, 2nd EditionHow We Come to Know Indigenous re-Search Methodologies |
Indigenous methodologies have been silenced and obscured by the Western scientific means of knowledge production. In a challenge to this colonialist rejection of Indigenous knowledge, Anishinaabe … | Kathleen Absolon (Minogiizhigokwe) | 369 | 2022 | View |
Living in Indigenous Sovereignty |
Living in Indigenous Sovereignty lifts up the wisdom of Indigenous scholars, activists and knowledge keepers who speak pointedly to what they are asking of non-Indigenous people. It also shares … | Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara; Gladys Rowe | 264 | 2021 | View |
Losing me, While Losing YouCaregivers Share Their Experiences of Supporting Friends and Family with Dementia |
Losing Me, While Losing You is a long-needed resource to those providing care for people living with dementia — and for those providing care to the caregivers. In this book, caregivers … | Brenda Wallace-Allen; Diane Tedford-Litle; Jeanette A. Auger | 224 | 2021 | View |