Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal articles from June 2000

Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal archives from June 2000

Some racist slips about Quebec in English Canada between 1995 and 1998 (1).
June 22, 2000... ABSTRACT/RESUME This article analyses, from a selection of newspapers articles, some "racist tendencies" that appeared in English Canada since the 1995 referendum. Examining several events in the media ("cases" Rakoff, Lawrence Martin,...

Responding to discrimination: Influences of respondent gender, target race, and target gender.
June 22, 2000... ABSTRACT/RESUME Students (n=2314) in three Northern Ontario secondary schools were asked if they would agree or disagree vocally or non-vocally in six fictional social scenarios involving racial prejudice with randomized target genders and...

Ghanaian women in Toronto's labour market: Negotiating gendered roles and transnational household strategies.(Ontario, Canada)(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2000... ABSTRACT/RESUME Research in the labour market experiences of immigrant women in Canada has tended to concentrate on how their experiences assist or hinder their integration into Canadian society. Less attention has been given to how...

Finding creative identities: Mennonite writers in Winnipeg.(Manitoba, Canada)(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2000... Diane Driedger (1) ABSTRACT/RESUME In this paper, the authors focus on the changing creative identities of Mennonite writers in Winnipeg who move between two worlds in an electronic age, from oral to written encoding. This process...

Yiddish and Hebrew in Canada: The current situation.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2000... ABSTRACT/RESUME One measure of ethnic identity for any non-recent immigrant group is retention of its original language (which tends to be given up in favour of the new language that post-immigration generations are immersed in). The main...

Ethnoracial minorities in the Canadian House of Commons: The case of the 36th Parliament.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2000... ABSTRACT/RESUME This essay represents another installment in a continuing analysis of how Parliament has been evolving to reflect the minority ethnoracial diversity that characterizes Canadian society. It classifies the backgrounds of MPs...

Conference report: Recasting European and Canadian History: National Consciousness, Migration, Multicultural Lives.
June 22, 2000... ********** The conference, (1) "Recasting European and Canadian History: National Consciousness, Migration, Multicultural Lives," was organized under the auspices of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries in...

Racial discrimination in Legislation, Litigation, Legend and Lore.(two books on race and legal history)
June 22, 2000... ********** Colour-coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950. Constance Backhouse. Toronto: The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History and University of Toronto Press, 1999. 485pp. ISBN 0-8020-8286-6 "Race, "Rights and...

Creating Societies: Immigrant lives in Canada. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 2000... Creating Societies: Immigrant Lives in Canada. Dirk Hoerder. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. 416 pp. $39.95 hc. Dirk Hoerder's Creating Societies, a study of immigration to and emigration from Canada covering...

The Practice of Language Rights in Canada. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 2000... The Practice of Language Rights in Canada. C. Michael MacMillan. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. 238 pp. $19.95 sc, $50.00 hc. For much of Canada's history, and certainly for the last forty years, one of the fault lines of...

Aboriginal Tenure in the Constitution of Canada. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 2000... Aboriginal Tenure in the Constitution of Canada. James (Sakej) Youngblood Henderson, Marjorie L. Benson, and Isobel M. Findlay. Scarborough, ON: Carsell (Thomson Canada Limited), 2000. 463 pp. $150.00 hc. The authors of this scholarly tome...

Dislocation et permanence. L'invention du Canada au quotidien. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 2000... Dislocation et permanence. L'invention du Canada au quotidien. Caroline Andrews, et al., dir. Ottawa: Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa: collection [much less than]Sciences sociales / Societe canadienne[much greater than], 1999. 355 pp. ...

The Emigrant's Guide to North America.
June 22, 2000... The Emigrant's Guide to North America. Robert MacDougall, Elizabeth Thompson, Ed. Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 1998. 158 pp. $18.95 Sc. Robert MacDougall came to Canada from Scotland in 1836 at the age of twenty-three with his father...

Emigre Feminism: Transnational Perspectives. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 2000... Emigre Feminism: Transnational Perspectives. Alena Heitlinger, Ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.333 pp. $60.00 hc, $21.95 sc; Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State. Caren Kaplan, Norma...

A Century in the West. Life of a Pioneer Woman -- Mary Popp's Story. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 2000... A Century in the West. Life of a Pioneer Woman -- Mary Popp's Story. Mary Popp, Donald H. Layh, Ed. Langenburg, SK: Twin Valley Consulting Ltd., n.d. [1998]. xxiv, 241 pp. $20.00 sc. (Order from: Twin Valley Consulting Ltd., Box 250,...

Deemed Unsuitable: Blacks from Oklahoma Move to the Canadian Prairies in Search of Equality in the Early 20th Century only to find Racism in their New Home. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 2000... Deemed Unsuitable: Blacks from Oklahoma Move to the Canadian Prairies in Search of Equality in the Early 20th Century Only to Find Racism in their New Home. R. Bruce Shepard. Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1997. 150 pp. $19.95 sc. Settlers from...

"Toil and Peaceful Life." Doukhobor Village Settlement in Saskatchewan, 1899-1918. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 2000... "Toil and Peaceful Life. "Doukhobor Village Settlement in Saskatchewan, 1899-1918. Carl J. Tracie. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 1996. 230 pp. $24.00 sc. Carl J. Tracie has had a long interest in ethnic-religious agricultural...

Hungarian Rhapsodies: Essays on Ethnicity, Identity, and Culture. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 2000... Hungarian Rhapsodies: Essays on Ethnicity, Identity, and Culture. Richard Teleky. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1997. 217 pp. This book's twelve perceptive and engaging essays constitute a personal exploration of the...

From the Inside Out. The Rural Worlds of Mennonite Diarists, 1863 to 1929. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 2000... From the Inside Out. The Rural Worlds of Mennonite Diarists, 1863 to 1929. Edited and with an Introduction by Royden Loewen. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999. 350 pp. $24.95 sc. Historical documents and papers come in many...

Emigration from Scotland between the wars: opportunity or exile? (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 2000... Emigration from Scotland between the wars: opportunity or exile? Marjory Harper. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1998. 243 pp. $69.95 hc. Most people associate the Scottish diaspora with the eighteenth and nineteenth...

Scandalous Bodies: Diasporic Literature in English Canada. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 2000... Scandalous Bodies: Diasporic Literature in English Canada. Smaro Kamboureli. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press Canada, 2000. 268 pp. $24.95 Sc. This is the most interesting study on the state of ethnic minority writing in Canada that...

The Literary History of Alberta Volume Two: From the End of the War to the End of the Century. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 2000... The Literary History of Alberta Volume Two: From the End of the War to the End of the Century. George Melnyk. Edmonton: The University of Alberta Press, 1999. 302 pp. $26.95 sc. This book concludes George Melnyk's grand project to survey...

The Ukrainian Wedding. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 2000... The Ukrainian Wedding. Larry Warwaruk. Regina: Coteau Books, 1999.256 pp. $14.95, $12.95US Sc; Two Lands. New Visions. Janice Kulyk Keefer and Solomea Pavlychko, Eds. Regina: Coteau Books, 1999, 320 pp. $15.95 sc. Both these books are...

Gabriel Dumont in Paris: A Novel History. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 2000... Gabriel Dumont in Paris: A Novel History. Jordan Zinovich. Edmonton: The University of Alberta Press, 1999. 186 pp. $16.95 sc. Gabriel Dumont in Paris: A Novel History begins with the author's 'Acknowledgements," an untitled poem in italics...

Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 2000... Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood. Wayson Choy. Toronto: Viking, 1999. 342 pp. $32.00 Sc. Wayson Choy has an astonishing memory. In a book, much of whose contents consists in his experiences around the age of five, he conjures up vivid...

The Question.
June 22, 2000... The Question. Austin Clarke. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1999. 243 pp. $22.99 Sc. For almost four decades Austin Clarke has given his readers vivid and insightful portrayals of both Caribbeans and Canadians of Caribbean origin. His...

Consecrated Ground. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 2000... Consecrated Ground. George Boyd. Winnipeg: Blizzard Publishing, 1999. 69 pp. $12.95 sc. In 1965, Africville, the largest and oldest black community in Canada, was bulldozed to the ground. More than four hundred people from eighty families...