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Chapter 5: Quantifying Melanin
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Chapter 5: Quantifying Melanin

From: 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 … 10 $1.00 Add
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Chapter 6

Chapter 6

The 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 … 8 $0.80 Add
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Chapter 6: Joe Fortes, Model Negro Citizen
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Chapter 6: Joe Fortes, Model Negro Citizen

From: 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. 12 $1.20 Add
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Chapter 7

Chapter 7

The 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 … 13 $1.30 Add
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Chapter 7: On Love and Being Loved
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Chapter 7: On Love and Being Loved

From: 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 … 20 $2.00 Add
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Chapter 8

Chapter 8

Litigating 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 … 30 $3.00 Add
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Chapter 8: Legacy
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Chapter 8: Legacy

From: 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. 12 $1.20 Add
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Chapter 9

Chapter 9

Rethinking 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 … 19 $1.90 Add
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Chapter 9: Soliloquy for Serafim
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Chapter 9: Soliloquy for Serafim

From: Searching for Serafim

In this final chapter the author shares her thoughts and recounts the life of Serafim Fortes. 9 $0.90 Add
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Code Black: Systemic Threats, Revealing Violences Slow and Spectacular

Code Black: Systemic Threats, Revealing Violences Slow and Spectacular

From: Hot Mess

In this chapter, Wiebe traces the layered violence of American militarization in Hawai’I and the impact of extractive industries. 20 $2.00 Add
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Conclusion
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Conclusion

From: 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 … 24 $2.40 Add
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Creating Little Calvins

Creating Little Calvins

From: 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. ; 11 $1.10 Add
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Dance and Song Before Story

Dance and Song Before Story

Was 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. 18 $1.80 Add
Decolonize Hipsters

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 … 148 View
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Decolonizing Policing in Indigenous Communities
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Decolonizing Policing in Indigenous Communities

From: 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 … 22 $2.20 Add