Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal articles from June 2003

Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal archives from June 2003

The place of immigrants: the politics of difference in territorial and social space.
June 22, 2003... ABSTRACT/RESUME Canada's immigration discourse tends to treat immigrants as the object of inquiry. The discourse itself is taken for granted and is seldom scrutinized. This paper discusses the framework by which the immigration discourse...

School spaces and the construction of ethnic relations: conceptual and policy debates.
June 22, 2003... ABSTRACT/RESUME This article discusses, on the one hand, the nature of ethnicity, a concept that is often taken for granted in education, but which is the subject of many debates in social psychology, anthropology and the sociology of...

The interplay between ethnicity, religion, and gender among second-generation Christian and Muslim Arabs in Montreal.
June 22, 2003... ABSTRACT/RESUME This study explores how religion operates as an "ethnic-like" identity marker, or group binder, among both Christian and Muslim college students of Arab origin in Montreal. Special attention is also paid to the relation...

Immigration and transnational political ties: Croatians and Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada.
June 22, 2003... ABSTRACT/RESUME Immigration has spawned the creation of diasporas, ethnonational communities outside their country of origin who maintain symbolic and material links to the homeland. In an effort to better understand the nature of...

"One's bad and the other one's worse": differences in economic integration between asylum seekers and refugees selected abroad.
June 22, 2003... ABSTRACT/RESUME The socio-economic settlement of refugees generates considerable interest in Canada and Quebec because, while the basis for this type of immigration is primarily humanitarian, the success of refugees' economic integration...

The Toronto mayor and Mombassa natives.(Mel Lastman)
June 22, 2003... ABSTRACT/RESUME Speech act theory and impression management are used as the analytical bases for declaring that utterances of a public official in Canada are racist. The exploration is applied to language emanating from the highly visible...

Ethnic Jewishness in Canada and our 2001 census Data.
June 22, 2003... ABSTRACT/RESUME Few groups in Canada are enumerated on the census as both a religious denomination and an ethnic-origin category, but Jews are. Given the widespread consensus on the unreliability of ethnic-origin census data, demographers...

Multiculturalism in Canada: a Slovak perspective (1).
June 22, 2003... The Canadian federal government's multiculturalism policies have been controversial since their implementation. (2) I propose to show their impact on one of Canada's smaller ethnic groups, the Slovaks, principally in the Province of Ontario,...

Accommodating history.
June 22, 2003... Some would argue that history is not a science. I am not persuaded, for what history shares with the scientific enterprise is the quest for knowledge. But history is not a science like other sciences. It is necessarily concerned with time, of...

Discourses of Domination: Racial Bias in the Canadian English-Language Press.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Frances Henry and Carol Tator. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. 291 pp. $50 hc; $24.95 sc. As a former journalist who was the Lethbridge Herald's de facto Native affairs reporter in the mid-1990s, I witnessed racism in the...

Citizenship in Transformation in Canada.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Yvonne Hebert. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. 289 pp. $75.00 hc; $ 35.00 sc. There are two stories we can tell about the transformation of citizenship in Canada. One is a story about struggle and hardship. Women, indigenous...

Who's Who in Black Canada.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Dawn P. Williams. Toronto: d.p.williams & associates, 2002.421 pp. $59.99 hc; $39.99 sc. "How can you tell I'm not from here?" Dawn Williams asks those who enquire about her origins while on her first trip to Africa. All of her life,...

The Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Gender.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Himani Bannerji. Toronto: Canadian Scholar's Press, 2000. 182 pp. $19.95 sc. Himani Bannerji offers a feminist, anti-racist, Marxist critique of multiculturalism as a means for the white Canadian elite to oppress non-whites, immigrants,...

The Indian Association of Alberta: a History of Political Action.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Laurie Meijer-Drees. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2002. 246 pp. $29.95 sc; $85.00 hc. This study makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Aboriginal political action and leadership in Canada's history....

The Heavens Are Changing: Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Susan Neylan. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. xvii, 406 pp. $75.00. hc. Susan Neylan is currently an assistant professor of history at Wilfrid Laurier University. The Heavens Are Changing: Nineteenth-Century...

Cree Narratives.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Richard Preston. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. Second edition. 285 pp. $27.95 sc; $75.00 hc. Originally published in 1975, Richard Preston's Cree Narratives has been reissued by McGill-Queen's both for its value...

Elements d'une socio-linguistique critique.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Monica Heller. Paris: Editions Didier Hatier (collection >), 2003.176 pp. $48.95 sc. L'objectif de l'ouvrage est d'introduire le lecteur h une forme de sociolinguistique qui contribue h la theorie sociale tout en ebauchant une analyse...

L'idee d'universite: Une anthologie des debats sur l'enseignement superieur au Quebec de 1770 a 1970.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Claude Corbo and Marie Ouellon. Montrtal: Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 2001. 377 pp. $34.95 sc. Little historical research on Canadian higher education has been mounted from a strictly multicultural perspective. While Claude...

Portuguese Women in Toronto: Gender, Immigration, and Nationalism.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Wenona Giles. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. 161 pp. 40.00 hc. Wenona Giles' book compares the working lives, the households, and the experiences of Portuguese immigrant women with those of their daughters. As her theoretical...

Of Silk Saris and Mini-Skirts: South Asian Girls Walk the Tightrope of Culture.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Amita Handa. Toronto: Women's Press, 2003.211 pp. $24.95 sc. There has been a great deal of feminist research in Canada over the past twenty years on the myriad ways in which South Asian women cope with alienation, systemic racism, and the...

Spirit Wrestlers: Doukhobor Pioneers' Strategies for Living.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Koozma J. Tarasoff. Ottawa, ON: Spirit Wrestlers Publishing, 2002. 480 pp. including Appendices, Bibliography, Index, and multi-media package. $89.95 hc. Koozma Tarasoff has devoted the last fifty years of his life to telling the story of...

On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia 1849-1871.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Adele Perry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. 286 pp. $24.95 sc. Adele Perry, historian at St. Paul's College, University of Manitoba, concludes her social history of empire in colonial British Columbia this way: "Evaluating and...

Izlozba Stoljece hrvatske periodike u iseljenistvu 1900-2000.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Branko Hanz and Nada Mihaljevic. Zagreb: Nacionalna i sveucilisna knjiznica, 2002. 69 pp. $8.50 sc. Catalogue, reproductions. Since the end of the 1980s there has been an intensified effort on the part of the National and University Library...

Canuke Literature: Critical Essays on Canadian Ukrainian Writing.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Sonia Mycak. Huntington, NY: Nova Science Publications, 2001. 128 pp. $45.00 hc. With Canadian literature becoming increasingly diversified, critical studies of that diversity make a welcome contribution to our understanding of what has...

F. G. Paci: Essays on His Works.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Joseph Pivato, ed. Toronto: Guernica, 2003.151 pp. $12.00 sc. The publication of The Italians (Oberon) in 1978 established F. G. Paci as a preeminent voice for the Italian-Canadian experience. In the intervening years, Paci published nine...

The Stone Carvers.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Jane Urqhart. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2001. 392 pp. $34.95 hc. Jane Urqhart's fifth novel, The Stone Carvers, follows the unlikely journey of sister and brother Klara and Tilman Becker from their beginnings in a small Ontario town...

Native Poetry in Canada: a Contemporary Anthology.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Jeanette C. Armstrong and Lally Grauer, eds. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2001. 360 pp. $26.95 CND; $19.95 US, sc. Something occurred to me then [1960s] about the use of poetic form as a way to distill into symbolic imagery a...

Ann and Seamus.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Kevin Major. Illustrated by David Blackwood. Toronto: Groundwood/Douglas & McIntyre, 2003. 109 pp. $16.95 sc. Ann and Seamus is a story of displacement and isolation in 1828. Ann is separated from social interaction in the Newfoundland...

Olive Dickason's First Nations: Episode One: the Life and Work of Canada's Greatest Aboriginal Historian.(Video Recording Review)
June 22, 2003... Toronto: Villagers Media Productions, 2003.47:15 minutes. This video is about Olive Dickason: newspaper reporter, academic historian, mother, and grandmother. Those of us who have admired Dickason's works through the years are delighted...