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“Métis”

“Métis”

Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood
by Chris Andersen
edition:Paperback
also available: Hardcover eBook eBook
tagged : native american studies, discrimination & race relations

Ask any Canadian what “Métis” means, and they will likely say “mixed race.” Canadians consider Métis mixed in ways that other indigenous people are not, and the census and courts have premised their recognition of Métis status on this race-based understanding.

 

According to Andersen, Canada got it wrong. Our very preoccupation with mixedness is not natural but stems from more than 150 years of sustained labour on the part of the state and others. From its roots deep in the colonial pas …

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Oral History at the Crossroads

Oral History at the Crossroads

Sharing Life Stories of Survival and Displacement
by Steven High
edition:Paperback
also available: Hardcover eBook
tagged : social history, emigration & immigration, violence in society

Over the span of seven years, hundreds of people displaced by mass violence told their stories to the Montreal Life Stories project. From the outset, the project’s organizers sought to develop an alternative model to traditional oral history practice, one where community members “shared authority” as equal partners. Together, they challenged long-held beliefs about how oral stories should be collected and shared. As a sustained reflection on this large-scale experiment in collaborative res …

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That Lonely Section of Hell

That Lonely Section of Hell

The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away
by Lorimer Shenher
edition:Paperback
also available: Hardcover eBook
tagged : serial killers, law enforcement, prostitution & sex trade

In this searing personal account, ex-police detective Lori Shenher (who transitioned to male in 2015, and is now known as Lorimer) describes his role in Vancouver's infamous Missing Women Investigation and unflinchingly reveals his years-long struggle with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of working on the case. From his first assignment, in 1998, to investigate an increase in the number of missing women to the harrowing 2002 interrogation of convicted serial killer Robert Pickton, She …

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Becoming Lin

Becoming Lin

by Tricia Dower
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : literary

It's 1965. Twenty-two-year-old Linda Wise despairs of escaping her overprotective parents and her hometown, where far too many know she was sexually assaulted as a teenager. Deliverance arrives in the form of marriage to the charismatic, twenty-six-year-old Ronald Brunson, a newly ordained Methodist minister who ignites her passion for social justice. Ron tells her war and racial discrimination are symptoms of the "moral rot" destroying the country, conjuring up something dark and rancid in her …

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Capricious

Capricious

by Gabrielle Prendergast
edition:Paperback
also available: Hardcover eBook
tagged : novels in verse, general (see also headings under social themes), dating & sex

Ella’s grade-eleven year was a disaster (Audacious), but as summer approaches, things are looking up.

She’s back together with her brooding boyfriend, Samir, although they both want to keep that a secret. She’s also best buddies with David and still not entirely sure about making him boyfriend number two. Though part of her wants to conform to high school norms, the temptation to be radical is just too great. Managing two secret boyfriends proves harder than Ella expected, especially when S …

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Capricious

Capricious

by Gabrielle Prendergast
edition:eBook
also available: Paperback
tagged : general (see also headings under social themes), novels in verse, dating & sex

Ella’s grade-eleven year was a disaster (Audacious), but as summer approaches, things are looking up.

She’s back together with her brooding boyfriend, Samir, although they both want to keep that a secret. She’s also best buddies with David and still not entirely sure about making him boyfriend number two. Though part of her wants to conform to high school norms, the temptation to be radical is just too great. Managing two secret boyfriends proves harder than Ella expected, especially when S …

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Mooncakes

Mooncakes

by Loretta Seto, illustrated by Renné Benoit
edition:Paperback
also available: Audiobook Hardcover eBook
tagged : asian

The lyrical story of a young girl who shares the special celebration of the Chinese Moon Festival with her parents.

As they eat mooncakes, drink tea and watch the night sky together, Mama and Baba tell ancient tales of a magical tree that can never be cut down, the Jade Rabbit who came to live on the moon and one brave woman's journey to eternal life. With a gentle focus on the importance of family, Mooncakes is both a perfect book for parent and child to read together and an ideal choice for sch …

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Mooncakes

Mooncakes

by Loretta Seto, illustrated by Renné Benoit
edition:Hardcover
also available: Paperback
tagged : asian

Mooncakes is the lyrical story of a young girl who shares the special celebration of the Chinese Moon Festival with her parents. As they eat mooncakes, drink tea and watch the night sky together, Mama and Baba tell ancient tales of a magical tree that can never be cut down, the Jade Rabbit who came to live on the moon and one brave woman's journey to eternal life. With a gentle focus on the importance of family, Mooncakes is a perfect book for parent and child to read together, while its educati …

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Excerpt

Tonight the moon shines like a polished pearl, round and fat. It glows bigger and brighter than I have ever seen.
   Tonight is a special night.
   Tonight I am allowed to stay up late. Soon there will be mooncakes to eat, sweet and chewy. They are round like the moon. They make a circle for me and Mama and Baba. They make a circle for my family.
   Outside we light paper lanterns. I made one all by myself using my favorite colors. The lanterns and stars light up the sky. The moon makes everything shine like silver and water.

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