Race & Racism

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Anti-Racist Feminism Critical Race and Gender Studies Fernwood Publishing	This collection adds to our understanding and critical engagement of how gendered and racially minoritized bodies can and do negotiate their identities and politics across several historical …	Agnes Calliste; George J. Sefa Dei	190	2000	View
Black Cop My 36 years in police work, and my career-ending experiences with official racism James Lorimer and Company	Calvin Lawrence became a cop at age twenty. He was recruited by the Halifax police department at a time of heightened racial tension in the city. From the start, some fellow African Canadians …	Calvin Lawrence; Miles Howe	272	2019	View
Colonized Classrooms Racism, Trauma and Resistance in Post-Secondary Education Fernwood Publishing	In Colonized Classrooms, Sheila Cote-Meek discusses how Aboriginal students confront narratives of colonial violence in the postsecondary classroom, while they are, at the same time, living and …	Sheila Cote-Meek	175	2014	View
Criminalizing Race, Criminalizing Poverty Welfare Fraud Enforcement in Canada Fernwood Publishing	The criminalization and penalization of poverty through increased surveillance and control of welfare recipients in recent years has led many poverty advocates to claim that “a war against …	Kiran Mirchandani; Wendy Chan	102	2007	View
Cure for Hate A Former White Supremacist<’>s Journey from Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion Arsenal Pulp Press	How does an affluent, middle-class, private-school-attending son of a doctor end up at the Aryan Nations compound in Idaho, falling in with and then recruiting for some of the most notorious …	Tony McAleer	235	2019	View
Islamophobia and the Question of Muslim Identity The Politics of Difference and Solidarity Fernwood Publishing	This book is a critical analysis of a Muslim group in Canada that has been working to challenge Islamophobia in their community. An important part of their anti-racist work involves dealing with …	Evelyn Leslie Hamdon	110	2010	View
NEW! Let’s Talk Race A Guide for White People New Society Publishers	Let’s Talk Race confronts why white people struggle to talk about race, why we need to own this problem, and how we can learn to do the work ourselves and stop expecting Black people to do …	Fern L. Johnson; Marlene G. Fine	192	2021	View
Northern Wildflower A Memoir Fernwood Publishing	Northern Wildflower is the beautifully written and powerful memoir of Catherine Lafferty. With startling honesty and a distinct voice, Lafferty tells her story of being a Dene woman growing up in …	Catherine Lafferty	155	2018	View
Race & Well-Being The Lives, Hopes, and Activism of African Canadians Fernwood Publishing	Through in-depth qualitative and quantitative research with African Canadians in three Canadian cities – Calgary, Toronto and Halifax – this book explores how experiences of racism, …	Akua Benjamin; Carl James; David Este; Tana Turner; Wanda Thomas Bernard	215	2010	View
Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Italian Canadian Internment in the Second World War James Lorimer and Company	Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Italian Canadian Internment is designed to provide an introductory-level overview of the internment of Italian-Canadians during the Second World War. This title …	Jean Smith Cavaluzzo; Pamela Hickman	114	2012	View
Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Internment in the Second World War James Lorimer and Company	Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Internment is designed to provide an introductory-level overview of the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War. This title …	Musako Fukawa; Pamela Hickman	162	2012	View
Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Residential Schools The Devastating Impact on Canada’s Indigenous People and the Reconciliation Commission’s Findings and Calls for Action James Lorimer and Company	Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Residential Schools is designed to provide an introductory-level overview of the history and effects of the Residential School system in Canada. This title makes …	Melanie Florence	130	2016	View
Righting Canada’s Wrongs: The Chinese Head Tax and Anti-Chinese Immigration Policies in the Twentieth Century James Lorimer and Company	Righting Canada’s Wrongs: The Chinese Head Tax is designed to provide and introductory-level overview of Anti-Chinese immigration policies that were implemented by the Government of Canada, …	Arlene Chan	98	2014	View
Righting Canada’s Wrongs: The Komagata Maru and Canada's Anti-Indian Immigration Policies in the Twentieth Century James Lorimer and Company	Righting Canada’s Wrongs: The Komagata Maru is designed to provide and introductory-level overview of Anti-Indian immigration policies that were implemented by the Government of Canada, …	Pamela Hickman	106	2014	View
NEW! The Ku Klux Klan in Canada A Century of Promoting Racism and Hate in the Peaceable Kingdom Formac Publishing	The Klu Klux Klan came to Canada thanks to some energetic American promoters who saw it as a vehicle for getting rich by selling memberships to white, mostly Protestant Canadians. In Ontario, …	Allan Bartley	322	2020	View
Uprooting Racism How White People Can Work for Racial Justice (4th Edition) New Society Publishers	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