Social discrimination and social justice

A young trainee anthropologist leaves her violent Mafia-run hometown—Youngstown, Ohio—to study an "e;exotic"e; group, the Paiute Indians of Nevada.

A young trainee anthropologist leaves her violent Mafia-run hometown—Youngstown, Ohio—to study an "e;exotic"e; group, the Paiute Indians of Nevada.

The mission statements and recruitment campaigns for modern Canadian universities promote diverse and enlightened communities.

Disability exists in the shadows of public awareness and at the periphery of policy making.

Three stereotypical figures have come to represent the 'war on terror' - the 'dangerous' Muslim man, the 'imperilled' Muslim woman, and the 'civilized' European.

In the 1960s, the city of Halifax razed the black community of Africville under a program of urban renewal and 'slum clearance.

In recent years, the Canadian labour movement has undergone fundamental change in response to demands for greater inclusion and representation by women, visible and sexual minorities, and people with disabilities.

Historically Canadians have considered themselves to be more or less free of racial prejudice.

This multidisciplinary volume brings together scholars and activists to examine expressions of racism in contemporary policy areas, including education, labour, immigration, media, and urban planning.

Many argue that the Lubicon, a small Cree nation in northern Alberta, have been denied their unalienable right to self-determination by the Canadian government.

On August 13, 1521, the largest and most developed of North America's societies, the Aztec empire, fell to Spanish invaders who, along with later European colonizers, built new societies in which they occupied the dominant class positions and forced Indians, imported African slaves, and Asians into subordinate positions.

The mission statements and recruitment campaigns for modern Canadian universities promote diverse and enlightened communities.

Historically Canadians have considered themselves to be more or less free of racial prejudice.

Three stereotypical figures have come to represent the 'war on terror' - the 'dangerous' Muslim man, the 'imperilled' Muslim woman, and the 'civilized' European.

Disability exists in the shadows of public awareness and at the periphery of policy making.

Official multiculturalism, established as Canadian government policy in 1971, has drawn criticism from many scholars and journalists who view it as a potential threat to a strong, unified Canadian society.

In the 1960s, the city of Halifax razed the black community of Africville under a program of urban renewal and 'slum clearance.

The Anishinabek Nation's legal traditions are deeply embedded in many aspects of customary life.

Values such as ‘access’ and ‘inclusion’ are unquestioned in the contemporary educational landscape.

We tend to think of contemporary concern for reform in education as unprecedented in its intensity and scope.

Is Canada a country of equal and peacefully coexisting identities, working towards what Charles Taylor has called a 'post-industrial Sittlichkeit'?

In the summer of 1883, Franz Boas, widely regarded as one of the fathers of Inuit anthropology, sailed from Germany to Baffin Island to spend a year among the Inuit of Cumberland Sound.

In this book Sherene Razack explores what happens when whites look at non-whites, and in particular at non-white women.

In the mid-1980s, the Abella Commission on Equality in Employment and the federal Employment Equity Act made Canada a policy leader in addressing systemic discrimination in the workplace.

In the mid-1980s, the Abella Commission on Equality in Employment and the federal Employment Equity Act made Canada a policy leader in addressing systemic discrimination in the workplace.

Values such as ‘access’ and ‘inclusion’ are unquestioned in the contemporary educational landscape.

Strangers in Blood explores, in a range of early modern literature, the association between migration to foreign lands and the moral and physical degeneration of individuals.

In this renowned 1997 study of the clothing industry in Canada, Mercedes Steedman examines how the intricate weaving together of the meanings of class, gender, ethnicity, family, and the workplace created a job ghetto for women.

In Remembrance of Patients Past, historian Geoffrey Reaume remembers previously forgotten psychiatric patients by examining in rich detail their daily life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane (now called the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health - CAMH) from 1870-1940.

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Nursing embodies the seemingly timeless characteristics of feminine healing, caring, and nurturing, yet this archetypally female vocation also boasts a distinctive and complex history.

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Canadian women on the political left in the first half of the twentieth century fought with varying degrees of commitment for women's rights.

Was Canada immune to the racist currents of thought that swept central Europe in the 1920's and 1930's?

‘God is a racist’—so goes a statement published in the literature of the Western Guard, a white-supremacist, anti-semitic group in Toronto.

It is now widely recognised that rising inequality of income and wealth on the one hand and a slowdown in the rate of economic growth on the other are two of the most important challenges faced today by the global economy as well as by most of the developing economies.

We are said to be living in the age of entitlement.

We are said to be living in the age of entitlement.

Inequality is currently gaining considerable attention in academic, policy, and media circles.

Inequality is currently gaining considerable attention in academic, policy, and media circles.

In Remembrance of Patients Past, historian Geoffrey Reaume remembers previously forgotten psychiatric patients by examining in rich detail their daily life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane (now called the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health - CAMH) from 1870-1940.

Despite recent progress in civil rights for sexual and gender minorities (SGM), ensuring SGM youth experience fairness, justice, inclusion, safety, and security in their schools and communities remains an ongoing challenge.

Despite recent progress in civil rights for sexual and gender minorities (SGM), ensuring SGM youth experience fairness, justice, inclusion, safety, and security in their schools and communities remains an ongoing challenge.

No matter where in Canada they occur, inquiries and inquests into untimely Indigenous deaths in state custody often tell the same story.

No matter where in Canada they occur, inquiries and inquests into untimely Indigenous deaths in state custody often tell the same story.

Cultural tourism is frequently marketed as an economic panacea for communities whose traditional ways of life have been compromised by the dominant societies by which they have been colonized.

Cultural tourism is frequently marketed as an economic panacea for communities whose traditional ways of life have been compromised by the dominant societies by which they have been colonized.

p>Over the last few decades, critical theory which examines issues of race and racism has flourished.

Over the last few decades, critical theory which examines issues of race and racism has flourished.

Challenging Canada’s image as a humane, enlightened global actor, Colonial Extractions examines the troubling racial logic that underpins Canadian mining operations in several African countries.