Multiculturalism
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() “Too Asian”?Racism and Post-Secondary Education |
The now notorious Maclean’s article “Too Asian?” from the magazine’s 2010 campus issue has sparked a national furor about race in Canadian higher education. Since the … | Davina Bhandar; Jeet Heer; Michael C.K. Ma; RJ Gilmour | 224 | 2012 | View |
![]() Black Geographiesand the Politics of Place |
Black Geographies and the Politics of Place is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in black geographic theory. Fourteen authors address specific geographic sites and develop their … | Katherine McKittrick | 272 | 2007 | View |
![]() Home and Native LandUnsettling Multiculturalism in Canada |
Home and Native Land takes its vastly important topic and places it under a new, penetrating light—shifting focus from the present grounds of debate onto a more critical terrain. The … | Anna Stanley; Lisa Helps; May Chazan; Sonali Thakkar | 256 | 2011 | View |
![]() Uprooting RacismHow White People Can Work for Racial Justice (4th Edition) |
In 2016, the president-elect of the United States openly called for segregation and deportation based on race and religion. Meanwhile, inequalities in education, housing, health care and the job … | Paul Kivel | 451 | 2017 | View |
From ![]() From: Home and Native Land |
Examines the policy of multiculturalism within a settler society, and whether the current debates are disruptive or just another form of assimilation. Includes a discussion of the effects of the … | Anna Stanley; Lisa Helps; May Chazan; Sonali Thakkar | 14 | 2011 | $1.40 Add |
From ![]() “No One Knows the Mysteries at the Bottom of the Ocean”From: Black Geographies |
Introduction to the themes of the book. Found in black geographies are a history of brutal segregation and erasure, but also processes that inform a different or new approach to the production of … | Clyde Woods; Katherine McKittrick | 13 | 2007 | $1.30 Add |
From ![]() IntroductionFrom: “Too Asian”? |
The introduction looks at how liberal and right-wing journalism in Canada deal with issues of “Race” and multiculturalism, especially on university and college campuses. | Jeet Heer | 14 | 2012 | $1.40 Add |
From ![]() IntroductionFrom: Uprooting Racism |
Uprooting Racism begins with the understanding that racism exists, it is pervasive and that its effects are devastating. Because of this devastation, we need to start doing everything possible to … | Paul Kivel | 6 | 2017 | $0.60 Add |
From ![]() The Parable of the TextbookEducation, Meritocracy, and Why History Matters From: “Too Asian”? |
Where did Maclean’s get the notion that they were honourably defending “merit-based” admissions policies against American racist policies? The idea that only considering … | Henry Yu | 12 | 2012 | $1.20 Add |
From ![]() Towards African Diaspora CitizenshipPoliticizing an Existing Global Geography From: Black Geographies |
The African diaspora is in effect an already existing globalization of African peoples, but it preceded the economic and communications structures now defined as globalization. To … | Babacar M'Bow; Carole Boyce Davies | 32 | 2007 | $3.20 Add |
From ![]() What Color is WhiteFrom: Uprooting Racism |
White people have been led to believe racism is a question of particular acts of discrimination or violence. Calling someone a name, denying someone a job, excluding someone from a neighborhood … | Paul Kivel | 97 | 2017 | $9.70 Add |
From ![]() “Sittin’ on Top of the World”The Challenges of Blues and Hip Hop Geography From: Black Geographies |
In 1930, the Mississippi Delta was already in the devastating grip of the Great Depression. Hunger, evictions, and terror would haunt the region for another four decades. We must ask how could a … | Clyde Woods | 36 | 2007 | $3.60 Add |
From ![]() Asians and Affirmative Action on CampusAn Historical Canada-US Comparison From: “Too Asian”? |
At its heart, the “Too Asian” controversy is about weighing the benefits to the community against the rights of the individual. That balancing act extends far beyond the campus, and … | David Weinfeld | 12 | 2012 | $1.20 Add |
From ![]() Subjects of empire: Indigenous peoples and the “Politics of Recognition” in CanadaFrom: Home and Native Land |
Recognition-based models of liberal pluralism seek to reconcile Indigenous claims to nationhood with Crown sovereignty via the accommodation of Indigenous identities in some form of renewed … | Glen S. Coulthard | 26 | 2011 | $2.60 Add |
From ![]() For a multicultural, multi-faith, multiracial Canada: A manifestoFrom: Home and Native Land |
The author argues that leftist critics are right in their anti-state condemnation of multiculturalism, but wrong to not see how popular groups – everyday Canadians – make … | George Elliott Clarke | 7 | 2011 | $0.70 Add |
From ![]() Memories of AfricvilleUrban Renewal, Reparations, and the Africadian Diaspora From: Black Geographies |
The field of historic preservation and conservation in the Americas is ill equipped to deal with the complex history of forced removal. Community-based demands placed on restorative justice … | Angel David Nieves | 15 | 2007 | $1.50 Add |