Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal articles from June 2002

Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal archives from June 2002

Ethnicizing Atlantic Canadian universities: The regional impact of the Canadian Ethnic Studies Program, 1973-1997.
June 22, 2002... ABSTRACT/RESUME This article describes and analyzes the creation. Development and administration of the federal Canadian Ethnic Studies Program between 1973 and 1997 and its impact on Atlantic Canadian universities. The program, created by...

Ethnic intermarriage in Canada (1).
June 22, 2002... ABSTRACT/RESUME Since the late nineteenth century the rate of ethnic intermarriage has been increasing in Canada. This paper analyzes current levels of ethnic intermarriage in Canada during the 1990s in relation to the historical trends...

Religious identity and ethnic language: correlations between shifting Chinese Canadian religious affiliation and mother tongue retention, 1931-1961.
June 22, 2002... ABSTRACT/RESUME A number of sociological studies suggest non-English speaking immigrants who identify with their ethnic churches often have a higher rate of mother tongue retention than those who convert to mainstream Canadian Protestant...

What does a story tell? Eddi Gislason's (1901-1986) personal use of traditional material (1).
June 22, 2002... ABSTRACT/RESUME This article examines stories recorded from the Icelandic-Canadian, Eddi Gislason, in 1972-73. They are discussed in the light of issues relating to the copyright of material derived from traditional communities (cf. the...

Police-community relations: Chinese attitudes toward the police in Toronto.
June 22, 2002... ABSTRACT/RESUME Positive attitudes toward the police and satisfactory experiences with them are a necessary precursor to constructive police-community partnerships. The primary objective of the present inquiry was to canvass the attitudes...

The buried tree.(Short Story)
June 22, 2002... Every spring my family digs up a fig tree with the expectation that it will live again and bear fruit, like Lazarus raised from the grave. It lies in a shallow trench in our vegetable garden, asleep. My uncles delicately remove the topsoil, and...

Interview with Joy Kogawa "kawaiso" (a word used to comfort children).(Interview)
June 22, 2002... Joy Kogawa was born in Vancouver in 1935, a third generation Canadian of Japanese ancestry. Her father was an Anglican minister. She and her family were victims of the Canadian Government's policy of internment and dispersal of Japanese...

The Colour of Your Skin.(Poem)
June 22, 2002... The colour of your skin PETER GRANTHAM There is no dignity when you refuse to see the human soul within each human frame. The colour of each skin, hiding frailties within, is a uniform on which to lay the blame. For the...

Cultural Differences and Women's Rights.(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women's Rights. Ayelet Shachar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 193 pp. $19.95 US Sc. Ayelet Shachar's book, Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women's...

Multiculturalism and the History of Canadian Diversity. (Book Reviews/Recensions).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Multiculturalism and the History of Canadian Diversity. Richard J. F. Day. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. 263 pp. $19.95 he or sc. This book is a welcome contribution to the discourse on diversity which has become increasingly...

Educating Citizens for a Pluralistic Society. (Book Reviews/Recensions).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Educating Citizens for a Pluralistic Society. Rosa Bruno-Jofre and Natalia Aponiuk, Eds. Calgary: Canadian Ethnic Studies/Etudes ethniques au Canada. 2001. 251 pp. $20.00 hc; $15.00 Sc. Educating Citizens for a Pluralistic Society est un...

Educating Citizens for a Pluralistic Society.(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Educating Citizens for a Pluralistic Society. Rosa Bruno-Jofre and Natalia Aponiuk, Eds. Calgary: Canadian Ethnic Studies/Etudes ethniques au Canada, 2001. 251 pp. $20.00 hc, $15.00 sc. This is a diverse collection consisting of an...

Le reseau du Canada. Etude du monde migratoire de la France vers la Nouvelle-France (1628-1662). .(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Le reseau du Canada. Etude du monde migratoire de la France vers la Nouvelle-France (1628-1662). Gervais Carpin. Sillery: Editions du Septentrion, 2001. Pp. vi, 554, $34.95 sc. Gervais Carpin's lengthy and detailed study of immigration to...

Au temps de la prairie. L'histoire des Metis de l'Ouest canadien racontee par Auguste Vermette, neveu de Louis Riel.(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Au temps de la prairie. L'histoire des Metis de l'Ouest canadien racontee par Auguste Vermette, neveu de Louis Riel. Marcien Ferland. Saint-Boniface: Les Editions du Ble. 2000. 143 pp., $24.95 sc This chronicle of traditional Metis life and...

The Legacy of School for Aboriginal People: Education, Oppression, and Emancipation. (Book Reviews/Recensions).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... The Legacy of School for Aboriginal People: Education, Oppression, and Emancipation. Bernard Schissel and Terry Wotherspoon. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2002. 176 pp. $28.95 sc. This little volume summarizes the findings of a...

The Dakota of the Canadian Northwest: Lessons for Survival. (Book Reviews/Recensions).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... The Dakota of the Canadian Northwest: Lessons for Survival. Peter Douglas Elias. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2002. 262 pp. $29.95 sc. A longtime professor of management at the University of Lethbridge and the founder of...

Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory.(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory. Lucien M. Turner, Introduction by Stephen Loring, Reissue with an added section of photographs taken by Turner, Originally published 1894 as part of the Eleventh Annual Report of the...

Mirrors of Stone: Fragments from the Porcupine Frontier. (Book Reviews/Recensions).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Mirrors of Stone: Fragments from the Porcupine Frontier. Charlie Angus. Photographs by Louie Palu. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2001. 148 pp. $24.95. sc Charlie Angus is a remarkably multi-talented individual: songwriter, guitarist,...

Women without Men. Mennonite Refugees of the Second World War. (Book Reviews/Recensions).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Women without Men. Mennonite Refugees of the Second World War. Marlene Epp. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. 275 pp. $55.00 hc; $21.95 sc. Marlene Epp's study describes the lives of predominantly Mennonite women in eastern...

Hidden Worlds: Revisiting the Mennonite Migrants of the 1870s. .(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Hidden Worlds: Revisiting the Mennonite Migrants of the 1870s. Royden Loewen. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2001. 139 Pp. $22.95 Sc. In the 1870s more than 18,000 Mennonites trekked from the southern steppes of Imperial Russia to...

In Search of a Better Life: Emigration to Thunder Bay from a Small Town in Calabria. .(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... In Search of a Better Life: Emigration to Thunder Bay from a Small Town in Calabria. John Potestio. Thunder Bay: The Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 2000. 182 Pp., $14.95 sc. John Potestio is part of that generation of scholars that...

The North American Italian Renaissance: Italian Writing in America and Canada.(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... The North American Italian Renaissance: Italian Writing in America and Canada. Kenneth Scambray. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2000. 130 pp. $15.00 sc. In The North American Italian Renaissance Kenneth Scambray presents an overview of some...

River Thieves. .(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... River Thieves. Michael Crummey. Toronto: Doubleday, 2001.335 pp. $34.95. hc. River Thieves is the remarkable first novel from Michael Crummey, a Newfoundland poet and author of a collection of short stories. In recognition of its...

Aritha van Herk: Essays on Her Work.(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Aritha van Herk: Essays on Her Work. Christi Verduyn, Ed. Toronto: Guernica, 2002. 126 pp. $10.00 sc. Aritha van Herk is an important Canadian writer whose work so far has been discussed mainly in terms of feminism and postcolonialism....

Blue. .(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Blue. George Elliott Clarke. Vancouver: Polestar Book Publishers, 2001. 166 pp. $12.95 sc. Of the many recurrences in Blue, licorice and rum, honey and milk, the book's matrix evolves out of its focus on connections between ethnicity and...

F.P. Grove in Europe and Canada: Translated Lives. .(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... F. P. Grove in Europe and Canada: Translated Lives. Klaus Martens, Trans. Paul Morris and Klaus Martens. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2001. 351 pp. $34.95 sc. Klaus Martens' F.P. Grove in Europe and Canada: Translated Lives is a...

Afterimage--Evocations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Arts and Literature. Remanence--Evocations de l'Holocauste dans les arts et la litteratures canadiens contemporaines. .(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Afterimage--Evocations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Arts and Literature. Remanence--Evocations de I'Holocauste dans les arts et la litteratures canadiens contemporaines. Edited by Loren Lerner. Montreal: The Concordia University Institute...

My Mother's Voice: Children, Literature, and the Holocaust.(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... My Mother's Voice: Children, Literature, and the Holocaust. Adrienne Kertzer. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2002. 384 pp. $24.95 CDN; $17.95 US, Sc. My Mother's Voice: Children, Literature, and the Holocaust is a far-reaching and engaging...

Hana's Suitcase. .(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Hana's Suitcase. Karen Levine. Toronto: Second Story Press, 2002. 111 pp. $14.95 sc. Hana's Suitcase is amongst the best received of a stream of new books concerning young girls and the Holocaust by Canadian authors such as Kathy Kacer...

The Boy in the Treehouse; Girl Who Loved Her Horses. .(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... The Boy in the Treehouse; Girl Who Loved Her Horses. Drew Hayden Taylor. Vancouver: Talon Books, 2000. 159 pp. $16.95 sc. Both of these plays swept me away. Hayden Taylor, who has a history of fine children's plays, has written two...