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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 5: Quantifying MelaninFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter uses archival materials to showcase the ways Serafim’s Blackness was quantified, classified and written about by white residents in Vancouver, a practice that has throughout … | Ruby Smith Diaz | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() Chapter 6The War on Gangs From: The Colour of Justice |
The War on Gangs, chapter six, delves into how the fear of street gangs has impacted racial profiling. The chapter looks at the ideas around gangs in policing, the Criminal Intelligence Service … | David M. Tanovich | 8 | 2006 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 6: Joe Fortes, Model Negro CitizenFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter, using historical excerpts and images, highlights the racism experienced by non-white communities and by Serafim in the early 1900s. | Ruby Smith Diaz | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() Chapter 7The War on Terrorism From: The Colour of Justice |
Chapter seven considers the impact of the War on Terror, on racial profiling in Canada, first by looking at the impact on a young Somali-Canadian whose business facilitated money- transfers to … | David M. Tanovich | 13 | 2006 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 7: On Love and Being LovedFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter explores what life, love and relationships might have looked like throughout Serafim’s life at a time in history where, much like today, racialized communities were forced to … | Ruby Smith Diaz | 20 | 2025 | $2.00 Add |
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From ![]() Chapter 8Litigating Cases From: The Colour of Justice |
Chapter eight, Litigating Cases, examines how courts and governments can respond helpfully to the problem of racial profiling. The chapter looks in depth at the case R. v. S. (R.D.) in the … | David M. Tanovich | 30 | 2006 | $3.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 8: LegacyFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter recounts the final years of Serafim’s life, sharing Serafim’s final reflections on the life he lived and how he was chosen to be remembered by those in Vancouver. | Ruby Smith Diaz | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() Chapter 9Rethinking the Use of Race in Suspect Descriptions From: The Colour of Justice |
In Rethinking the Use of Race in Suspect Descriptions, chapter nine, the author considers narratives of abuse in the film The Hurricane, and in three cases of police shootings of innocent … | David M. Tanovich | 19 | 2006 | $1.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 9: Soliloquy for SerafimFrom: Searching for Serafim |
In this final chapter the author shares her thoughts and recounts the life of Serafim Fortes. | Ruby Smith Diaz | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() Code Black: Systemic Threats, Revealing Violences Slow and SpectacularFrom: Hot Mess |
In this chapter, Wiebe traces the layered violence of American militarization in Hawai’I and the impact of extractive industries. | Sarah Marie Wiebe | 20 | 2024 | $2.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! ConclusionFrom: Canadian Policing |
In the Conclusion author Kent Roach reflects on the failures of Canadian policing over the past thirty years, most often failing racialized and discriminated populations through their practices … | Kent Roach | 24 | 2022 | $2.40 Add |
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From ![]() Undercover OperationsFrom: Black Cop |
Details Calvin’s training and undercover operation in Edmonton. Calvin discuesses the racist sterotypes that led to his selection for this operation. | Calvin Lawrence; Miles Howe | 20 | 2019 | $2.00 Add |
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From ![]() Creating Little CalvinsFrom: Black Cop |
Calvin’s career takes him to Regina, where he works as an instructor at the RCMP Depot, and details the RCMP’s abuse of women and people of colour during the 90’s. | Calvin Lawrence; Miles Howe | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() Dance and Song Before StoryWas Flower Drum Song a Phantasy? From: Bigotry on Broadway |
Ishmael Reed interviews Shawn Wong regarding anti-Asian racism in Flower Drum Song, other theatre productions, and the industry at large. | Shawn Wong | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |
![]() Decolonize Hipsters |
Few urban critters are more reviled than the hipster. They are notoriously difficult to define, and yet we know one when we see one. No wonder: they were among the global cultural phenomena that … | Grégory Pierrot | 148 | 2021 | View |
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From ![]() NEW! Decolonizing Policing in Indigenous CommunitiesFrom: Canadian Policing |
In Decolonizing Policing in Indigenous Communities author Kent Roach explores the compatibility between increased Indigenous self-determination and policing. The task of decolonizing Canadian … | Kent Roach | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |










