Ethnic studies

Despite her trailblazing efforts to represent the work of Canadian writers to publishers in North America and abroad, Doris Hedges (1896-1972), the Montreal author who started Canada's first literary agency in 1946, is routinely excluded from Canadian literary histories.

The South Asian population in Canada, encompassing diverse national, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, has in recent years become the largest visible minority in the country.

Money, often portrayed as a straightforward representation of market value, is also a political force, a technology for remaking space and population.

Argentina's populist movement, led by Juan Peron, welcomed people from a broad range of cultural backgrounds to join its ranks.

The Udege, a small Indigenous group in the Primorsky Krai and Khabarovsk Krai regions of Russia, have a rich oral storytelling tradition.

A silent clapboard church on a barren Arctic landscape is more than just a place of worship: it is a symbol that can evoke fraught reactions to the history of Christian colonization.

The fur trade was the heart of the French empire in early North America.

Blacks in Canada journeys from the introduction of slavery in 1628 to the first wave of Caribbean immigration in the 1950s and 1960s.

Published fifty years ago under the title Harpoon of the Hunter, Markoosie Patsauq's novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous fiction in Canada.

Fifty years ago, Markoosie Patsauq, then a bush pilot in his late twenties living in the tiny, isolated High Arctic community of Resolute, spent his spare time quietly writing a story that effectively emerged as the first Indigenous novel released in Canada.

Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America explores how close, collaborative looking can discern the traces of contact, exchange, and movement of objects and give them a life and political power in complex cross-cultural histories.

Bringing together fifteen scholars of art and culture, Unsettling Canadian Art History addresses the visual and material culture of settler colonialism, enslavement, and racialized diasporas in the contested white settler state of Canada.

In the words of Cayuga Elder Gae Ho Hwako Norma Jacobs: "e;We have forgotten about that sacred meeting space between the Settler ship and the Indigenous canoe, odagahodhes, where we originally agreed on the Two Row, and where today we need to return to talk about the impacts of its violation.

The Laughing People, translated from the award-winning Le peuple rieur, conveys the richness and resilience of the Innu while reminding us of the forces - old and new - that threaten their community.

George Nelson (1786-1859) was a clerk for the North West Company whose unusually detailed and personal writings provide a compelling portrait of the people engaged in the golden age of the Canadian fur trade.

George Nelson (1786-1859) was a clerk for the North West Company whose unusually detailed and personal writings provide a compelling portrait of the people engaged in the golden age of the Canadian fur trade.

What does it mean to be a white settler on land taken from peoples who have lived there since time immemorial?

The South Asian population in Canada, encompassing diverse national, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, has in recent years become the largest visible minority in the country.

The 1978 publication of Edward Said's Orientalism unsettled the world.

In the Quebecois political vision of the twentieth century, sovereignty became synonymous with mastery.

With increasing urban population density, conflicts in cities erupt more frequently and violently.

With increasing urban population density, conflicts in cities erupt more frequently and violently.

Eatenonha is the Wendat word for love and respect for the Earth and Mother Nature.

Money, often portrayed as a straightforward representation of market value, is also a political force, a technology for remaking space and population.

Launched by healthcare providers in January 2018, the #aHand2Hold campaign confronted the Quebec government's practice of separating children from their families during medical evacuation airlifts, which disproportionately affected remote and northern Indigenous communities.

The Enlhet, an Indigenous people of the Paraguayan Chaco, remained virtually untouched by colonialism until the 1920s.

"e;Our names - Atiqput - are very meaningful.

Louis Riel (1844-1885) was an iconic figure in Canadian history best known for his roles in the Red River Resistance of 1869 and the Northwest Resistance of 1885.

What does it mean to be a white settler on land taken from peoples who have lived there since time immemorial?

For centuries, women artists of the Wendat First Nation of Wendake in Quebec have created artworks of intricate design and complex meaning in moosehair and quill embroidery.

For millennia, plants and their habitats have been fundamental to the lives of Indigenous Peoples - as sources of food and nutrition, medicines, and technological materials - and central to ceremonial traditions, spiritual beliefs, narratives, and language.

While countries throughout the world rely on immigrants to support their populations and economies, access to the military is limited, denied to those who have not yet acquired citizenship.

While countries throughout the world rely on immigrants to support their populations and economies, access to the military is limited, denied to those who have not yet acquired citizenship.

Iconic as a novelist and popular cultural figure, Zora Neale Hurston remains underappreciated as an anthropologist.

Black Lives Are Beautiful is a workbook explicitly designed to help members of the Black community counter the impacts of racialized trauma while also cultivating self-esteem, building resilience, fostering community, and promoting Black empowerment.

In the early twenty-first century, the Chinese literary world saw an emergence of fictional works - dubbed as "e;oppositional political novels"e; - that took political articulation as their major purpose and questioned the fundamental principles and intrinsic logic of the Chinese model.

HawaiE i Is My Haven maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands.

In the early twenty-first century, the Chinese literary world saw an emergence of fictional works - dubbed as "e;oppositional political novels"e; - that took political articulation as their major purpose and questioned the fundamental principles and intrinsic logic of the Chinese model.

Demise by assimilation or antisemitism is often held to be the inevitable future of Jews in Canada and other diaspora countries.

Demise by assimilation or antisemitism is often held to be the inevitable future of Jews in Canada and other diaspora countries.

Onetime seemingly unstoppable boxing champion, victim of a false conviction for a triple homicide, and spokesperson for the wrongfully incarcerated, Rubin "e;Hurricane"e; Carter is a controversial twentieth century icon.

As a young journalist covering black life at large, author Ytasha L.

Dive Deep into the Radiant Spectrum of Family LoveIn a world of increasing diversity, what does it mean to raise a child with a rich, multiracial heritage?

A Dream Defaulted explores how the student loan crisis disproportionately affects Black borrowers and why rising student debt is both a cause and consequence of social inequality in the United States.

As a group, Black and Latino boys face persistent and devastating disparities in achievement when compared to their White counterparts: they are more likely to obtain low test scores and grades, be categorized as learning disabled, be absent from honors and gifted programs, and be overrepresented among students who are suspended and expelled from school.

As a group, Black and Latino boys face persistent and devastating disparities in achievement when compared to their White counterparts: they are more likely to obtain low test scores and grades, be categorized as learning disabled, be absent from honors and gifted programs, and be overrepresented among students who are suspended and expelled from school.

¿Por qué la acción ritual y el chamanismo son tan importantes para los pueblos amerindios?

Seven award-winning plays by rising stars of contemporary theater herald a profound shift in what it means to be an American, an immigrant, and an artist on today's stage.

This book analyzes how public-school closures and the costly battles waged to stop them undermine the citizenship of Black Americans.

Global migration, the rise of popular nationalism, and the quest by diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious groups for recognition, civic equality, and structural inclusion within their nation-states have complicated the attainment of citizenship in countries around the world.