Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal articles from March 2003

Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal archives from March 2003

Introduction: Ethnicity in the Canadian Census.(Editorial)
March 22, 2003... This thematic issue has been produced to provide a background for discussion of the conceptual framework and development of indicators of ethnicity in Canada. Currently, the most comprehensive and consistent data source for measures of...

Measuring ethnocultural diversity using the Canadian census.
March 22, 2003... ABSTRACT/RESUME The first part of this paper provides an overview of the circumstances which help account for the development of "ethnic origin" and "visible minority" questions in the Canadian Census. The second part reviews aspects of...

Coming to our census: the need for continued inquiry into Canadians' ethnic origins.
March 22, 2003... ABSTRACT/RESUME The study of ethnic origin continues to be the object of criticism from two groups: those who do not feel it is salient and therefore urge governments not to inquire into it, and those who believe that, when relevant,...

Country of birth of parents and ethnic origins--a comparison of reporting patterns in the 2001 census.
March 22, 2003... ABSTRACT/RESUME The 2001 Census of Canada has questions on the "Country of Birth of Parents" as well as the more traditional "Ethnic Origin." It has been suggested that, given the ambiguities in the ethnic origins data, they could be...

Ethnic ancestry, culture, identity, and health: using ethnic origin data from the 2001 Canadian census.
March 22, 2003... ABSTRACT/RESUME This analytic paper explores the use of ethnic origin census data in policy- and practice-relevant health research. It begins with a definition of key terms, outlines the importance of ethnicity and health research, and...

Spatial residential patterns of selected ethnic groups: significance and policy implications.
March 22, 2003... ABSTRACT/RESUME This paper analyses the spatial residential patterns of recent immigrant groups to Canada and compares them with other selected European groups to understand the differences, their causes and consequences. Using census data...

The intergenerational transfer of ethnic identity in Canada at the turn of the twenty-first century.
March 22, 2003... ABSTRACT/RESUME The purpose of this analysis is to explore the generational transfer of ethnic identity at the beginning of the twenty-first century in Canada and in eight census metropolitan areas, i.e., Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton,...

Reporting Metis in urban centres on the 1996 census.
March 22, 2003... ABSTRACT/RESUME This paper applies 1996 Census data to look at the reporting patterns of the Metis population in selected Canadian urban centres. On the 20 Percent Sample of the 1996 Census, people could self-identify as Metis and/or...

The governor general's three solitudes: the Canadian geneses of John Buchan's "Sick Heart River".(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... Sick Heart River (1941) was John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir's, last novel, published in the year after his death near the close of his term as Canada's Governor General. It is set mainly in the Canadian north, and in the introduction to his 1994...

A Knish on a plate of scones--how to become Canadian.
March 22, 2003... If I were a food, I'd be a knish, even though on the outside, I look like a scone, everybody thinks I'm English, Scottish, or Irish, or a "Canadian-girl" Anything light-white, but a knish cause I look "simply,"...

Selling Diversity: Immigration, Multiculturalism, Employment Equity, and Globalization.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Christina Gabriel. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2002. 202 pp. $27.95 sc. The purpose of this book is to examine the historic and contemporary environment surrounding three important policy areas--immigration,...

Destination Canada: Immigration Debates and Issues.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Peter S. Li. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2003. 228 pp. $29.95 sc. Peter Li argues that Canada has constructed its immigration programs, especially in recent years, mainly around three instrumental themes: (a) the recruitment of...

Les defis du pluralisme en education. Essais sur la formation interculturelle.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Fernand Ouellet. Quebec/Paris: Les Presses de l'Universite Laval/L'Harmattan, 2002. 175 pp. $20.00 sc. Fernand Ouellet est professeur a la Faculte de theologie, d' ethique et de philosophie de l'Universite de Sherbrooke eta plusieurs...

Migration und Identitat in einer bikulturellen Gemeinde. Anglo- und Frankokanadier zwischen Isolation und Integration, 1850-1920.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Elke Jahnke. Frankfurt a. M.: Campus, 2002. 222 pp. 29.90 Euro. sc. Elke Jahnke' s work translates into English as Migration and Identity in a Bicultural Community. Anglophones and Francophones between Isolation and Integration, 1850-1920...

Crimes of Colour: Racialization and the Criminal Justice System in Canada.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Wendy Chan and Kiran Mirchandani, eds. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2001. 221 pp. $29.50 sc: Social Context and Social Legislation in the Sociology of Law. Gayle MacDonald, ed. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2001. 287 pp. $22.95 sc. The...

Mythes et realites sur les peuples autochtones.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Pierre Lepage. Montreal:Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse, 2002. 88 pp. Publication offerte gratuitement sur demande. Version anglaise egalement disponible sous le titre Aboriginal Peoples: Fact and Fiction. ...

The False Traitor: Louis Riel in Canadian Culture.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Albert Braz. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. 272 pp. $24.95 sc; $55.00 hc. At no time in Metis history since the Riel wars has the destiny of the Metis people been so much the target of national attention as it is today. At...

Fish, Law, and Colonialism: The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Douglas C. Harris. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. 306 pp. $65.00 hc; $27.95 sc. Douglas Harris's study of human conflict over fish resources in British Columbia at the turn of the twentieth century is a significant...

The White Man's Gonna Getcha: the Colonial Challenge to the Crees in Quebec.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Toby Morantz. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. 370 pp. $27.95 sc; $75.00 hc. The term, "colonialism," at first glance seems more appropriate to Canada' s colonial French and British past. Morantz, however,...

Nuvisavik. The Place Where We Weave.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Maria von Finckenstein, ed. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. 211 pp. $44.95 sc. Nuvisavik joins books on Inuit art ranging from Jill Oakes and R. Riewe's Our Boots: An Inuit Women's Art (1995) to Celine Saucier's...

Arctic Justice: On Trial for Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Shelagh D. Grant. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. 368 pp. $39.95 hc. Visitors to Pond Inlet (Mittimatalik), Nunavut, are invariably taken to visit the site of the original Thule Inuit settlement (Qilalukkat), now...

Anti-Asian Violence in North America: Asian American and Asian Canadian Reflections on Hate, Healing and Resistance.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Patricia Wong Hall and Victor M. Hwang, eds. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 2001. 197 pp. $62.00 hc; $19.95 sc. Anti-Asian Violence in North America: Asian American and Asian Canadian Reflections on Hate, Healing and Resistance is a...

Like Everyone Else ... But Different: the Paradoxical Success of Canadian Jews.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Morton Weinfeld. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2002. 446 pp. $24.99 sc; $37.99 hc. Marshall McLuhan said that he read only every other page of "serious" books. He explained that it helped him to concentrate having to fill in the missing...

Montreal of Yesterday: Jewish Life in Montreal 1900-1920.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Israel Medres. Vehicule Press, 2000. 214 pp. $19.95 sc. Up to the beginning of the mass migration of Jews from Eastern Europe to Canada at the turn of the twentieth century, the Jews of Montreal were comfortable, well integrated, and...

CIUS: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies: 25 Years, Bi-lingual English and Ukrainian Edition.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... CIUS. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 2001. 51 pp. English/45 pp. Ukrainian. The Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) was founded at the University of Alberta in 1976. In celebration of its twenty-fifth...

Aversion and Desire: Negotiating Muslim Female Identity in the Diaspora.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Shahnaz Khan. Toronto: Women's Press, 2002. 152 pp. $24.96 CDN; $19.95 US sc. "Operation Iraqi Freedom" seems to have achieved what primarily was expected of it--the liberation of Iraq from Saddam Hussein. Enormous impervious tasks,...

A Map of the Island.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Nigel Darbasie. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2001. 69 pp. $16.95 sc. Nigel Darbasie's, A Map of the Island, has been called "an extended poetic meditation on a youth in Trinidad" (back cover). By combining specific place...

A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Dionne Brand. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2001. 230 pp. $32.95 hc. In her recent work, Dionne Brand is always cresting toward the door that will connect her to the original locus of the Black Diaspora. She arrives, however, just as that...

Leylines of My Flesh.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Vivian Hansen. Calgary: Touchwood, 2002.99 pp. $14.95 sc. Leylines of my Flesh, Vivian Hansen's first book-length collection of poetry, is a lyrical and strong-lined evocation of immigrant life on the Canadian prairies. Throughout four...

Not Quite Mainstream: Canadian Jewish Short Stories.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Norman Ravvin, ed. Calgary: Red Deer Press, 2001. 248 pp. $18.95 sc. Leslie Fiedler once suggested that in the 1950s Jews briefly served as an American everyman by providing a literary mirror for shifting national values after World War...

The Heart Does Not Bend.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Makeda Silvera. Toronto: Random House Canada, 2002. 264 pp. $32.95 hc. Makeda Silvera's first novel explores Jamaican-Canadian women's relationships, and the complicated definitions and permutations of motherhood, loyalty, heritage, and...

The Water of Possibility.(Children's Review)(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Hiromi Goto. Regina: Coteau, 2001. 319 pp. $9.95 sc. The Water of Possibility is Hiromi Goto' s first novel directed toward an adolescent audience. It is a work of skill and imagination which presents a setting of "parallel dimensions" (p. 79),...

Rapid Ray: the Story of Ray Lewis.(The Man Who Ran Faster than Everyone: The Tom Longboat Story)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... John Cooper. Toronto: Tundra, 2002. viii + 144 pp. $12.95 sc.; The Man Who Ran Faster than Everyone: The Tom Longboat Story. Jack Batten. Toronto: Tundra, 2002. 104 pp. $16.99 sc. Recent years have seen a welcome addition to the corpus of...