Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal articles from June 1999

Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal archives from June 1999

Becoming Canadian: Problems of an emerging identity.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 1999... Introduction Immigration has been the vehicle which forged the character of Canada, for as immigration policy changed so did the character of the immigrant stream. Canadian immigration policy has been subject to frequent but not radical...

Ethnic group leaders and the mobilization of voter turnout: Evidence from five montreal communities.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 1999... Introduction Although scholarly interest in the relationship between ethnicity and political participation in Canada has increased in recent years, much remains lobe done in this field. Compared to the United States, where questions...

The consumer market of the enclave economy: A study of advertisements in a Chinese daily newspaper in Toronto.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 1999... Introduction Recent research on immigrant communities uses the concept of "enclave economy" to refer to the economic activities and labour relations of immigrant workers and ethnic business employers that often cluster in immigrant...

Language change in the Ukrainian home: From transmission to maintenance to the beginnings of loss.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 1999... Introduction In the last two decades language change of minority group speakers in language contact situations has become an important area of language research. Linguistic, sociolinguistic, sociological and political factors of language...

Beyond the purge: Reviewing the social credit movement's legacy of intolerance.
June 22, 1999... Introduction In 1985, Canadian Ethnic Studies published an article by David Elliott entitled, "Anti-Semitism and the Social Credit Movement: The Intellectual Roots of the Keegstra Affair." (1) The same year David Bercuson and Douglas...

Arabic Canadian literature: Overview and preliminary bibliography.
June 22, 1999... ********** Arabic-Canadian Writing originated in the early 1970s. First Generation Canadians of Arabic descent produced over 150 books and many more pieces in the form of contributions to literary magazines. This literary tradition covers...

Le choix d'un espace scolaire pour les parents de la diaspora armenienne: Un choix religieux, un choix politique, un choix social.
June 22, 1999... ********** L'identite collective armenienne a longtemps ete posee a travers le discours politique comme synonyme de l'identite nationale. Pourtant, la creation d'un Etat armenien en 1991, longtemps espere, semble actuellement soulever...

Un Mondo Lontano (A world away).(Short Story)
June 22, 1999... ********** The sun warms my living room with its luminous hands. I can see the dust moving in the light just above my bookshelf. Waiting to scatter on the painted red shelves, on an unoccupied old beige armchair. On blue threadbare carpet....

How generations are sown.(Poem)
June 22, 1999... ********** My grandmother weaves baskets for us made of ash wood pounded with stone into strips and sown with threads sweetgrass and placed into my visions baskets made of birchbark cut into...

Your Saskatchewan heart.(Poem)
June 22, 1999... ********** I feel your Saskatchewan heart on my lips its hot, dry, and windy I'm driving into the sun I am flying with thunderstorms escaping chances to be so many porcupines stray cats and stranded...

A clear-cut calling.(Brief Article)(Poem)
June 22, 1999... ********** Your soft and tender body shuttering with primitive mornings harvesting time tired of healing let Bob Dylan die peacefully in his hero dreams the wounds are too deep gangrene has crawled inside...

When she was young.(Brief Article)(Poem)
June 22, 1999... ********** When she was young CPR workman threw small boxes of candy and fruit from the train When she was little they sold blueberries by the road the wind from the cars tasselled her hair Moosemeat was jarred...

Racism and Social Inequality in Canada. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 1999... Racism and Social Inequality in Canada. Vic Satzewich. Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing, 1998. 354 pages. $24.95 pb. This book examines race, racism and social inequality in Canada. Emphasis is placed on current realities, concerns,...

L'immigration pour quoi faire? (Book Reviews/Recensions).(et Immigres et creation d'entreprises (in French))
June 22, 1999... L'immigration pour quoi faire? Denise Helly, Quebec: Institut quebecois de recherche sur la culture, 1992 229 pp, $24.00 Pb; Immigres et creation d'entreprises. Montreal 1990, Denise Helly et Alberte Ledoyen, Quebec: Institut quebecois de...

Religious Education. An interpretive approach.
June 22, 1999... Religious Education. An interpretive approach. Robert Jackson. London, UK: Hodder and Stoughton, 1997. 156 pp. La Grande-Bretagne est le seul pays ou se poursuit systematiquement depuis le debut des annees 1970 l'experimentation de...

Return of the Indian. Conquest and Revival in the Americas. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 1999... Return of the Indian. Conquest and Revival in the Americas. Phillip Wearne. London, UK: Cassell, 1996. 240 pp. $39.95 pb. Despite five hundred years of colonial domination, Aboriginal people in the Americas have survived and maintained a...

Quaqtaq: Modernity and Identity in an Inuit Community. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 1999... Quaqtaq: Modernity and Identity in an Inuit Community. Louis-Jacques Dorais. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 1997. 132 pp. $14.95 pb (hc). Louis-Jacques Dorais' Quaqtaq is a welcome addition to the small genre of anthropological...

Never Without Consent: James Bay Crees' Stand Against Forced Inclusion into an Independent Quebec. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 1999... Never Without Consent: James Bay Crees' Stand Against Forced Inclusion into an Independent Quebec. Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Astchee). Toronto, ON: ECW Press, 1998. 280 pp. $21.95 pb. The book begins by affirming the James Bay...

The Ojibwa Woman. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 1999... The Ojibwa Woman. Ruth Landes. Introduction by Sally Cole. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, Bison Books Edition. 1997 (orig. pub. 1938). 247 pp. $13.00 pb. First published in 1938, Ruth Landes' The Ojibwa Woman has been an...

Tom Three Persons: Legend Of An Indian Cowboy. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 1999... Tom Three Persons: Legend Of An Indian Cowboy. Hugh A. Dempsey. Saskatoon, SK: Purich Publishers, 1997. 160 pp. $19.50 pb. Hugh Dempsey, one of Canada's best known historians on prairie Native biography and history, has written an...

Spirit-Wrestlers' Voices. Honouring Doukhobors on the Centenary of their Migration to Canada in 1899. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 1999... Spirit-Wrestlers' Voices. Honouring Doukhobors on the Centenary of their Migration to Canada in 1899. Compiled and edited by Koozma J. Tarasoff. New York, Ottawa, Toronto: Legas, 1998. $25.00 pb. Scholarly interest in the small religious...

The Icelandic Voice in Canadian Letters: The Contribution of Icelandic-Canadian Writers to Canadian Literature. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 1999... The Icelandic Voice in Canadian Letters: The Contribution of Icelandic-Canadian Writers to Canadian Literature. Daisy L. Neijmann. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1997. 436 pp. $24.99 hc. Although the term "transcultural" doesn't appear...

The Netherlandic Presence in Ontario: Pillars, Class and Dutch Ethnicity. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 1999... The Netherlandic Presence in Ontario: Pillars, Class and Dutch Ethnicity. Frans J. Schryer. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997. 458 pp. $64.95 hc. Canadians of Dutch ancestry must be one of the least studied cultural...

A.M. Klein: Selected poems. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 1999... A.M. Klein: Selected Poems. Zailig Pollock, Seymour Mayne, and Usher Caplan, Eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. 197 pp. $40.00 hc, $19.95 pb. The three editors of this volume are among the foremost authorities on the...

Pappaji wrote poetry in a language i cannot read. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 1999... pappaji wrote poetry in a language i cannot read. Rajinderpal S. Pal. Toronto, ON: Tsar Publications, 1998.$13.95 pb. Years ago, when I should have been in an afternoon chemistry class and was prowling round the literature section of the...

Mothertalk: Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 1999... Mothertalk: Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka. Roy Kiyooka. Edited by Daphne Marlatt. Edmonton, AB: NeWest, 1997. 190 pp. $16.95 pb. In 1986, writer and artist Roy Kiyooka asked translator Matsuki Masutani to interview his mother in her...

From our eyes. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 1999... From Our Eyes. Sylvia O'Meara and Douglas A. West, Eds. Toronto, ON: Garamond, 1996. 154 pp. $18.95 pb. This book derives from the First Biennial Aboriginal Peoples Conference held at Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, in October 1994....

The Electrical Field. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 1999... The Electrical Field. Kerri Sakamoto. Toronto, ON: Vintage Canada, 1998.309 pp. $17.95 pb. The Electrical Field is far from the conventional multicultural novel which strives to make minority experience legible to a "mainstream" audience....