Racism

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
“Too Asian”? Racism and Post-Secondary Education Between The Lines	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
NEW! Africentric Social Work Fernwood Publishing	This edited collection focuses on Africentric social work practice, providing invaluable assistance to undergraduate students in developing foundational skills and knowledge to further their …	David Este; Delores V. Mullings; Jennifer Clarke; Sulaimon Giwa; Wanda Thomas Bernard	272	2021	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
Black Geographies and the Politics of Place Between The Lines	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
Everyday Evil Why Our World Is the Way It Is twp	Instead of the epic, alien force of our imagination, anthropologist Monique Layton argues that evil is intrinsic to our humanity, constantly evolving with modern notions of morality. Much of the …	Monique Layton	270	2019	View
Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Comission of Canada Volume One: Summary Honouring the Truth, Reconciling the Future James Lorimer and Company	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 Misconduct Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport Fernwood Publishing	“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 Justice Policing Race in Canada Irwin Law Inc.	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 In Racism, Sports and Education Fernwood Publishing	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 Water Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities Fernwood Publishing	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
NEW! Uncle Race, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Loyalty Coach House Books	Jackie Robinson, President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, O. J. Simpson and Christopher Darden have all been accused of being an Uncle Tom during their careers. How, why, …	Cheryl Thompson	272	2021	View
From “No One Knows the Mysteries at the Bottom of the Ocean” From: Black Geographies Preview Between The Lines	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? From: There's Something in the Water Preview Fernwood Publishing	Strategic Inadvertence and Other Shortcomings of the Environmental Justice Lens in Nova Scotia	Ingrid R.G. Waldron	20	2018	$2.00 Add
From Acknowledgements From: Game Misconduct Preview Fernwood Publishing	-	Nathan Kalman-Lamb	2	2018	$0.20 Add
From Black Consciousness From: Black Cop Preview James Lorimer and Company	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 Introduction From: The Colour of Justice Preview Collection: Systemic Racism and Discrimination in Canadian Policing and Courts Irwin Law Inc.	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

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