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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From NEW! The Race Card: Conclusion |
The conclusion reflects on countering the charge of “playing the race card” or the “gender card” or the “queer card” and so forth, reflecting on dismantling … | Ajay Parasram; Alex Khasnabish | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
From NEW! Appendix A |
Appendix A: Top ten principles for thinking about racial politics as a white person | Ajay Parasram; Alex Khasnabish | 3 | 2022 | $0.30 Add |
From Challenging Canadian and Queer NationalismsFrom: In a Queer Country |
In "Challenging Canadian and Queer Nationalisms," Gary Kinsman takes issue with the very idea of the conference, that there could be a specific relationship between gays and lesbians … | Gary Kinsman | 31 | 2001 | $0.93 Add |
From EpilogueFrom: The Teen Sex Trade |
A black woman recounts the slow way she broke ties with an abusive and manipultaed partner and her want to reach out to other survivors. | Jade M. Brooks | 3 | 2017 | $0.30 Add |
From I Would Go Back if I CouldFrom: From Bombs to Books |
Describes the experience of a Iranian woman who converted to Christianity and was disowned by her Muslim family, she became an illegal refugee in Turkey with a constant fear of deportation before … | David Starr | 12 | 2016 | $1.20 Add |
From The Evanescence of a Great Family and a Founding Community: Sephardim vs. Ashkenazim |
This chapter tells the story of Benjamin Hart, looking at the Hart family’s experiences during the 19th century. | Denis Vaugeois | 31 | 2012 | $3.10 Add |
From Conclusion |
Some final thoughts and the legacy of the Hart family. | Denis Vaugeois | 15 | 2012 | $1.50 Add |
From Siting Lesbians:Urban Spaces and Sexuality From: In a Queer Country |
In "Siting Lesbians: Urban Spaces and Sexuality," Catherine Nash discusses the complement to Ingram’s study. He considers gay males seeking pleasure in the wide outdoors while … | Catherine Nash | 27 | 2001 | $0.54 Add |
From White Birds and Machine GunsFrom: From Bombs to Books |
Describes the experience of a woman from Kabul who’s first memories are of war, first with the Russian and then the Mujahedeen before escaping to a refugee camp in Pakistan. She was … | David Starr | 16 | 2016 | $1.60 Add |
From In Breath, You ListenFrom: From Bombs to Books |
Details the experience that staff have had in reaching refugee students at two schools in BC. Staff included in this chapter are a dance teacher, a settlement worker, a youth services worker, an … | David Starr | 15 | 2016 | $1.50 Add |
From Wear It with Pride:The Fashions of Toronto's Pride Parade and Canadian Queer Identities From: In a Queer Country |
There have been many studies that claim that homosexuals have long engaged in "reading" ‘each other, in finding elements of presentation, which show "I am what you are." … | Andrea N. Frolic | 33 | 2001 | $0.99 Add |
From Fairy Tales of Two Cities:or Queer Nation(s)-National Cinema(s) From: In a Queer Country |
Thomas Waugh’s "Fairy Tales of Two Cities: Queer Nation(s)-National Cinema(s)" considers examples from a past when Canadian cinema in general was defining itself, in response to … | Thomas Waugh | 26 | 2001 | $0.52 Add |
From Keeping Hope AliveFrom: From Bombs to Books |
Describes the story of how a man from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who was a teacher and activist which made him a target of the army. Details his struggles to claim asylum and finally … | David Starr | 18 | 2016 | $1.80 Add |
From Learning with Communities of ColorFrom: Coming Back to Life |
We decided to offer workshops that would be only for young activists of color and that would train them to become facilitators of the Work That Reconnects in their own communities. At the date of … | Adelja Simon; Adrián Villaseñor Galarza; Andrés Thomas Conteris; Joanna Macy; Patricia St. Onge | 24 | 2014 | $2.40 Add |
From These Things Happen in AfricaFrom: From Bombs to Books |
Describes the life of a man from Somalia who lost his leg delivering supplies to a UN refugee camp and then became a refugee in Uganda before being approved to come to Canada with his family. | David Starr | 9 | 2016 | $0.90 Add |
From The Last Song of Akol CholFrom: From Bombs to Books |
Details the life of a young boy from the Sudan who suffered a traumatic brain injury during the war. When his family came to Canada in order to get him the services he needed they placed him in … | David Starr | 11 | 2016 | $1.10 Add |