Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal articles from June 2001

Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal archives from June 2001

Emigration and mythmaking: The case of the Icelanders in Canada.
June 22, 2001... ABSTRACT/RESUME The article examines the myth of the emigration of Icelanders to, and their settlement in, North America as it appears in recent ethnic histories of Western Icelanders. It analyzes in a systematic manner the three primary...

The Chinese community's response to Protestant missions prior to the 1940s.
June 22, 2001... ABSTRACT/RESUME In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Protestant mission to the Chinese immigrants in Canada suffered a serious setback because of the racial tension between Chinese and English-speaking Canadians....

Official and unofficial school inspection as hegemonic and counter-hegemonic struggle in Prairie districts before 1940.
June 22, 2001... ABSTRACT/RESUME This paper examines how state inspectors and 'visiteurs d'ecoles" (unofficial inspectors) shaped hegemonic and counter-hegemonic cultural practices in bilingual school districts in Prairie provinces before 1940. The study...

Canadian Filipino adolescents report on parental socialization for school involvement.
June 22, 2001... Abstract/Resume Different parental socialization practices tend to predict the academic behaviours of European and Asian-Canadian adolescents. This study explored the processes whereby parental socialization practices lead to Filipino...

Associate teachers facing integration of visible minorities into the teaching profession in Francophone Ontario.
June 22, 2001... ABSTRACT/RESUME The research findings presented in this article are part of a larger study, the purpose of which was to examine the barriers that visible minority student teachers encounter while undertaking their practicum; a...

No longer "apart"? Multiculturalism policy and Canadian literature.
June 22, 2001... ABSTRACT/RESUME Despite thirty years of official Multiculturalism in Canada, there is a dearth of research relating to state policies in support of, and public institutional responses to, cultural and racial diversity in the arts. This...

Der Verein fur das Deutschtum im Ausland and its observations of Canada prior to world war one.
June 22, 2001... ABSTRACT/RESUME This work examines the publications of the Verein furdas Deutschtum im Ausland (VDA), Germany's longest running cultural institution interested in supporting the German language and culture abroad. Although this...

The diary of a little finnish immigrant: The first year in Canada.(Short Story)
June 22, 2001... Wednesday, July 11, 1951 Dear Diary, Today we're leaving Kuopio, and going faraway, to a country called Canada. My name is Kaarina and I'm nine years old and my sister, Raili, is eleven. I don't know where Canada is, but it must be...

DP.(Short Story)
June 22, 2001... I knew the sights and sounds, the smell and feel and taste of things before I ever knew their names. Food. It was my grandmother picking up the basket she'd filled with beets, cabbage, onions, and potatoes from the backyard garden. I'd...

The Quinn hierarchy.(Short Story)
June 22, 2001... It's bizarre how quickly situations become ordinary for the human animal. After his First day at Quinn's, Frederick vowed never to return to the place. Two weeks later, it had all become routine for him. He learned to accept the rhythmic...

Katya.(Short Story)
June 22, 2001... The smoke from the neighbours' chimneys rose straight up into the clear morning sky. For two days it had snowed and drifts of powder white had filled the gardens, piled up against the houses, erased the pathways that led from the doorways to...

Xemai.(Short Story)
June 22, 2001... "Bae! Bae!" I hear her calling me from her bedroom. "Xemai? What is it?" "Bae, it's raining outside?" "No, Xemai. It's snowing. It looks like a snowstorm." "No." She says emphatically. "It's raining outside. I can hear the...

A Quarter of Daddy's Shame.(Poem)
June 22, 2001... my father is the lucky one for shame validated and substantiated he's walking each foot separately you understand this much straddling identities like a good unfortunate halfbreed unlike me i have a foot pinned...

Grosse Ile.(Poem)
June 22, 2001... I have brought you here So you will know forever the silence In which are our beginnings - Sappho just remember this you whose, you whose tongue has been grafted into two separate journeys poetry is victory ...

Links.(Poem)
June 22, 2001... after awhile i begin to think of him as something more than human larger than thought a source for emotions i must now in dawn-glow rationalize he was like a salesman at my door a light knock mumbled...

A Poem for Anytime Like Now.(Poem)
June 22, 2001... "they are after themselves, they call it destiny. progress. we call it 'haints'. haints of their victims rising from the sun of africa, south america, asia." i.reed, from Mumbo Jumbo wind over waters like a hand...

The Guru's Gift: An Ethnography Exploring Gender Equality with North American Sikh Women.
June 22, 2001... The Guru's Gift: An Ethnography Exploring Gender Equality with North American Sikh Women. Cynthia Mahmood and Stacy Brady. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, 2000. 123 pp. $24.15 US sc. Sikhism in North America still reflects...

Mennonites in the Global Village.
June 22, 2001... Mennonites in the Global Village. Leo Driedger. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. 264 pp. $65.00 hc, $24.95 sc. Leo Driedger is a Mennonite and a professor of sociology at the University of Manitoba. This study represents a...

The Portuguese in Canada.
June 22, 2001... The Portuguese in Canada. Carlos Teixeira and Victor M.P. Da Rosa, Eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. 248 Pp. $24.95 Sc. The Portuguese are an active presence in the multicultural milieu that exists within Canada. First coming...

From Heroes to Enemies: Finns in canada, 1937-1947.
June 22, 2001... From Heroes to Enemies: Finns in canada, 1937-1947. Varpu Lindstrom. Beaverton, ON: Aspasia Books, 2000. 265 pp. $28.00 sc. From Heroes to Enemies: Finns in Canada, 1937-1947 covers an area of ethnic history that has up to now remained very...

The last Illusion. Letters from Dutch Immigrants in the "Land of Opportunity", 1924-1930.
June 22, 2001... The last Illusion. Letters from Dutch Immigrants in the "Land of Opportunity ", 1924-1930. Herman Ganzevoort. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1999. 238 pp. $24.95 sc. This book contains English translations of over fifty letters...

Perspectives on Ethnicity in Canada: A Reader. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 2001... Perspectives on Ethnicity in Canada: A Reader. Madeline A. Kalbach and Warren E. Kalbach, Eds. Toronto: Harcourt and Brace, 2000. 350 pp. $32.95 sc. Madeline and Warren Kalbach, editors of this volume, are one of the few, if not the only,...

Criminal Injustice: Racism in the Criminal Justice System. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 2001... Criminal Injustice: Racism in the Criminal Justice System. Robynne Ncugebauer, Ed. Toronto, ON: Canadian Scholars' Press, 2000. $18.95 CDN; $14.95 US sc. Criminal Injustice: Racism in the Criminal Justice System is a book that explores the...

Anti-Asian Violence in North America: Asian American and Asian Canadian Reflections on Hate, Healing and Resistance. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 2001... Anti-Asian Violence in North America: Asian American and Asian Canadian Reflections on Hate, Healing and Resistance. Patricia Wong Hall and Victor M. Hwang, Eds. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2001. 197 pp. $62.00 hc; $22.95 sc. Racial...

Breaking the Mould. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 2001... Breaking the Mould. Penny Petrone. Toronto: Guernica, 2001. 173 pp. $10.00 sc. Breaking the Mould is Penny Petrone's recollection of growing up in Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay) Ontario as the eldest daughter of Italian immigrant parents....

The Ash Garden. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
June 22, 2001... The Ash Garden. Dennis Bock. Scarborough, ON: HarperFlamingo Press, 2001.281 pp. $34.00 Sc. The reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity. If you are a scientist you cannot stop such a thing. If you are a scientist...