Racism
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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 CopMy 36 years in police work, and my career-ending experiences with official racism |
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 |
![]() 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 |
![]() Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Comission of Canada Volume One: SummaryHonouring the Truth, Reconciling the Future |
This is the Final Report of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these … | Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada | 544 | 2015 | View |
![]() Game MisconductInjury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport |
“You’re not a human being, you’re a number, a product, an asset as long as you can perform. If you can’t perform, then you’re a liability and they’ll drop you.” Professional athletes suffer … | Nathan Kalman-Lamb | 192 | 2018 | View |
![]() The Colour of JusticePolicing Race in Canada |
The colour of justice in Canada is largely driven by stereotypical assumptions about crime and those who commit it. Over the last few years, the use of race, ethnicity, and religion as indicators … | David M. Tanovich | 275 | 2006 | View |
![]() The Skin I’m InRacism, Sports and Education |
This book discusses the role that sport participation plays in the lives of Black male high school students. As a former professional athlete himself, the author brings a firsthand personal … | Christopher M. Spence | 136 | 1999 | View |
![]() There’s Something in the WaterEnvironmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities |
In “There’s Something In The Water”, Ingrid R. G. Waldron examines the legacy of environmental racism and its health impacts in Indigenous and Black communities in Canada, using … | Ingrid R.G. Waldron | 183 | 2018 | View |
![]() You Must Be a Basketball PlayerRethinking Integration in the University |
“Courageous and peerless, accessible and engaging, Stewart’s critique of the unseemly whiteness of the academy is a tour de force. His account of white academic privilege, … | Anthony Stewart | 126 | 2009 | View |
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 ![]() A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats? |
Strategic Inadvertence and Other Shortcomings of the Environmental Justice Lens in Nova Scotia | Ingrid R.G. Waldron | 20 | 2018 | $2.00 Add |
From ![]() AcknowledgementsFrom: Game Misconduct |
- | Nathan Kalman-Lamb | 2 | 2018 | $0.20 Add |
From ![]() Black Consciousness |
A brief overview of Calvin’s early life growing up in Yarmouth, N.S. Details his early experiences with racism and the 1960s black community in Nova Scotia. | Calvin Lawrence; Miles Howe | 28 | 2019 | $2.80 Add |
From ![]() IntroductionFrom: The Colour of Justice |
The introduction lays out the prevalence of the problem of racial profiling among police encounters in Canada and frames the purpose, driving questions and methodologies of the book. | David M. Tanovich | 5 | 2006 | $0.50 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: The Skin I'm In |
- | Christopher M. Spence | 5 | 1999 | $0.50 Add |