Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal articles from March 2002

Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal archives from March 2002

The "Jewish Phase" in the movement for Racial equality in Canada.
March 22, 2002... ABSTRACT/RESUME Following World War II, leaders of Canadian Jewry explained antisemitism as an aspect of racial prejudice in general, a problem attributable to pathological individuals who engaged in discrimination and whose behaviour...

Media treatment of Hate as an aggravating circumstance for sentencing: the Criminal Code amendment and the Miloszewski case.
March 22, 2002... ABSTRACT/RESUME This paper critically examines how the print media contribute to a bifurcated understanding of racism and racially motivated violence. Of particular interest is how the print media simultaneously reject and support racism...

A look at life satisfaction and ethnicity in Canada.
March 22, 2002... ABSTRACT/RESUME Using sample data from the 1997 National Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating, the author examined the reported life satisfaction by members of different ethnic groups in Canada. The sample comprised 17,109...

Le debat scientifique sur l'action positive: L'occasion d'une analyse sociologique de l'egalite.
March 22, 2002... RESUME/ABSTRACT La sociologie n'a pas fait de la notion egalite un objet d'analyse proprement sociologique, osant peu s'aventurer au-dela de la critique marxienne de l'egalite. Une partie importante de son champ est ainsi constituee par un...

Minorities and elections in Canada's fourth party system: macro and micro constraints and opportunities.
March 22, 2002... ABSTRACT/RESUME This study identifies the factors associated with the nomination and election prospects of ethnic and visible minority candidates in three federal elections held between 1993 and 2000. We conducted a statistical analysis of...

The impact of non-governmental organizations and language skills on the employability of refugee claimants: evidence from Quebec.
March 22, 2002... ABSTRACT/RESUME Refugee claimants find themselves in a precarious situation from the moment of their arrival due to the period of uncertainty accompanying their non-regularized status. Faced with the possibility of being deported, one can...

Pas De Deux.(Poem)
March 22, 2002... PAS DE DEUX Chalres C. Smith passing things a theatre of hands gathering pansies morning glories sweet pea to place into a vase bells from the balcony nightwinds making windowbox petals ring so clear...

Dynamics of Cultural Exchange: Creative and Critical Works. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Dynamics of Cultural Exchange: Creative and Critical Works. Licia Canton, Ed., Introduction by Christi Verduyn and Licia Canton. Montreal, QC: Cusmano Communications, 2002. 264 pp. $18.00 sc. info@cusmano.com The Dynamics of Cultural...

Citizens Plus: Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Citizens Plus: Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State. Alan C. Cairns. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2000. 288 PP. $39.95 hc. $25.95 Sc. Citizens Plus is an award winning and very important book about citizenship,...

Aboriginal Education in Canada: A Study in Decolonization. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Aboriginal Education in Canada: A Study in Decolonization. K. P. Binda and Sharilyn Calliou, Eds. Mississauga, ON: Canadian Educators' Press, 2001.225 pp, including index. $35.95. The subtitle of this book may be a bit misleading in that it...

Aboriginal Autonomy and Development in Northern Quebec and Labrador. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Aboriginal Autonomy and Development in Northern Quebec and Labrador. Colin H. Scott, Ed. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2001. 448 pp. $85.00 hc. In recent decades, the inexorable march of hydroelectric, resource and...

Immigration et diversite a l'ecole. Le debat quebecois dans une perspective comparative. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Immigration et diversite l'ecole. Le debat quebecois dans une perspective comparative. Marie McAndrew. Montreal, QC: Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 2001. 263 pp. $29.95 Sc. L'ouvrage dresse un bilan de l'evolution de la facon dont...

L'Alberta et le multiculturalisme francophone: temoignages et problematiques. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Claude Couture et Josee Bergeron, et al., Eds. L'Alberta et le multiculturalisme francophone: temoignages et problematiques. Edmonton, AB: Centre d'etudes canadiennes de la Faculte Saint-Jean et l'Association Multiculturelle Francophone de...

Winter in Montreal. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Winter in Montreal. Pietro Corsi. Translated by Antonio di Giacomantonio. Toronto, ON: Guernica Editions, 2000. 151 pp. $10.00. Sc. The decision to immigrate is not for the faint of heart. It takes courage to leave a familiar environment...

Looking for Country: A Norwegian Immigrant's Alberta Memoir. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Looking for Country: A Norwegian Immigrant's Alberta Memoir. Ellenor Ranghild Merriken. Introduction by Janice Dickin. Calgary, AB: University of Calgary Press, 1999. 175 pp. $19.95 sc. Immigrant memoirs have been part of the Canadian...

Faking It: Poetics & Hybridity. Critical Writing 1984-1999. The Writer as Critic; VII. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Faking it: Poetics & Hybridity. Critical Writing 1984-1999. The Writer as Critic: VII. Fred Wah. Edmonton, AB: NeWest, 2000. 280 pp. $20.00 CDN; $14.95 US sc. Readers of Wah's thought-provoking collection of essays, interviews, poems,...

Bullets on the Water: Canadian Refugee Stories. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Bullets on the Water: Canadian Refugee Stories. Compiled and Edited by Ivaylo Grouev. Montreal, QC: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. 166 pp. $24.95 sc. Great stories abound within Canadian history, and the refugee narrative claims a...

Long Drums and Cannons: Nigerian Dramatists and Novelists 1952 - 1966. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Long Drums and Cannons: Nigerian Dramatists and Novelists 1952 - 1966. Margaret Laurence, Edited by Nora Foster Stovel. Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta Press, 2001. 333 pp. $29.95 sc. Reading Nora Foster Stovel's edition of Long Drums...

AlterNatives. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... alterNatives. Drew Hayden Taylor. Vancouver, BC: Talon Books, 2000. 144 pp. $16.95 sc. Drew Hayden Taylor invites a motley crew to dinner at Colleen's apartment in alterNatives, and sparks fly. I purposely say Colleen's apartment, though...

When Alice Lay Down with Peter. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... When Alice Lay Down with Peter. Margaret Sweatman. Toronto, ON: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. 466 pp. $34.95 hc. Manitoba writer Margaret Sweatman's third novel offers the reader a stone-skipping narrative. Despite the 459-page length, When Alice...

Sweeter Than All the World. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Sweeter Than All the World. Rudy Wiebe. Toronto, ON: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. 438 pp. $35.95 hc. What does being a Mennonite mean almost five hundred years after the term was first applied to people in the European low countries who put into...

Family Matters. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Family Matters. Rohinton Mistry. Toronto. ON: McClelland & Stewart, 2002. 487 pp. $39.99 hc. In Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry returns to the Parsi community of Bombay (now Mumbai) of his earlier fiction. Using an elegant prose...

The Russlander. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... The Russlander. Sandra Birdsell. Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart, 2001. 350 pp. $34.99 hc. The first page of Sandra Birdsell's The Russlander is a stark news article of 1917 which reports the massacre of eleven inhabitants of...