Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal articles from March 2004

Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal archives from March 2004

Editorial note.(Canadian Ethnic Studies Association conferences)
March 22, 2004... At the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association/Societe canadienne d'etudes ethniques meetings held this past October in Banff, a number of decisions were made with respect to re-organizing and re-formatting the journal. (The association's next...

Owing allegiance: the British community in Verdun, Quebec during the Second World War.
March 22, 2004... ABSTRACT/RESUME During the Second World War, Verdun, Quebec (population 67,000 in 1941) was home to an exceptionally high percentage of British-born residents who retained a strong emotional bond to their birthplace. The city also claimed...

Are muslims discriminated against in Canada since September 2001?
March 22, 2004... ABSTRACT/RESUME Following the terrorist acts in the United States in September 2001, hostility toward Muslims increased in North America and Europe. This article describes the different forms of discrimination experienced by Muslims in...

"The mysterious oriental mind": ethnic surveillance and the Chinese in Canada during the Great War.
March 22, 2004... ABSTRACT/RESUME This article examines the surveillance of the Chinese in Canada during the Great War, focusing on the experience of the Chinese Nationalist League (CNL), one of the largest Chinese political organizations in Canada. It...

Chinese minority and everyday racism in Canadian towns and small cities: an ethnic study of the case of Peterborough, Ontario, 1892-1951.
March 22, 2004... ABSTRACT/RESUME This paper broadens ethnic studies of the Chinese in Canada from the context of large cities to that of towns and small cities like Peterborough, Ontario. It also expands the analytical focus from the anti-Chinese...

Who controls Canadian universities? Ethnoracial origins of Canadian university administrators and faculty's perception of mistreatment.
March 22, 2004... ABSTRACT/RESUME This paper evaluates the distribution of ethnoracial groups among the top administrators of Canadian universities from 1951 to 2001, as well as faculty perceptions of mistreatment of visible minorities by university...

The trouble with true stories: Thomas King's, The Truth About Stories.
March 22, 2004... The Massey Lectures began in 1961 under the patronage of the first Canadian-born Governor-General, Vincent Massey. Given by prominent Canadian and foreign intellectuals, the lectures were held at the University of Toronto until 2002. Since...

Blessed are the pure in heart: a Memoir of Bertha Hansford.(Biography)
March 22, 2004... Grandma Hansford was short, built close to the ground to better withstand the impact of life. There was a stain on Grandma Hansford's soul. The stain was only small, it's true, but because of her goodness, it was all the more apparent. On...

Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium. Dirk Hoerder. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. 779 pp., 71 maps. $100 hc. This encyclopaedic work is surely the definitive history of migration. Dirk Hoerder's Cultures in...

Multiculturalism in Contemporary Societies: Perspectives on Difference and Transdifference.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Multiculturalism in Contemporary Societies: Perspectives on Difference and Transdifference. Helmbrecht Breinig, Jurgen Gebhardt, and Klaus Losch, Eds. Erlangen, Germany: Universitatsbibliothek Erlangen-Nurnberg (Erlanger Forschungen: Series A,...

En partenariat avec l'Etat : Les experiences de cogestion des Autochtones du Canada.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... En partenariat avec l'Etat : Les experiences de cogestion des Autochtones du Canada. Thierry Rodon. Saint-Nicolas, QC: Les Presses de l'Universite Laval, 2003. 315 pp. $30.00 hc. Entente, partenariat, collaboration, cogestion. Voila une...

Empire et metissages. Indiens et Francais dans le Pays d'en Haut 1660-1715.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Empire et metissages. Indiens et Francais dans le Pays d'en Haut 1660-1715. Gilles Havard. Quebec/Paris: Septentrion/Presses de L'Universite de Paris/ Sorbonne, 2003. 858 pp. $49.95 sc. Gilles Havard est historien, membre du Centre de...

My First Years in the Fur Trade: the Journals of 1802-1804.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... My First Years in the Fur Trade: The Journals of 1802-1804. George Nelson. Laura Peers and Theresa Schenck, Eds. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. 234 pp. $44.95 hc. As Laura Peers and Theresa Schenck explain, George...

As I Remember Them: Childhood in Quebec and Why We Came West.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... As I Remember Them: Childhood in Quebec and Why We Came West. Jeanne-Elise Olsen, G. Lorraine Ouellette, and Ian Adam, Eds. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2002. 305 pp. 24.95 sc. As I Remember Them is an autobiographical account of...

Icelanders in North America: the First Settlers.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Icelanders in North America: The First Settlers. Jonas Thor. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2002. 306 pp. $19.95 sc. Iceland has garnered considerable attention in recent years from academics, in large part due to its dramatic...

Wartime Images, Peacetime Wounds: the Media and the Gustafsen Lake Standoff.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Wartime Images, Peacetime Wounds: The Media and the Gustafsen Lake Standoff. Sandra Lambertus. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. 277 pp. $55.00 hc; $29.95 sc. Like the high-profile confrontations at Oka and Ipperwash, the 1995...

The Oriental Question: Consolidating a White Man's Province, 1914-1941.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Oriental Question: Consolidating a White Man's Province, 1914-1941. Patricia E. Roy. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003. 334 pp. $29.95 sc; $85.00 hc. This study is a sequel to Patricia Roy's 1989 publication...

Enduring Hardship: the Chinese Laundry in Canada.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Enduring Hardship: The Chinese Laundry in Canada. Ban Seng Hoe. Gatineau, QC: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2003. 86 pp. $19.95 sc. Supplemented by more than eighty historical pictures and illustrations, Enduring Hardship: The Chinese...

The Wild Rose Anthology of Alberta Prose.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Wild Rose Anthology of Alberta Prose. George Melnyk and Tamara Palmer Seller, Eds. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2003. 408 pp. $34.95 sc. Widely acknowledged as a cog in the machinery of canon formation, anthologies can, and...

Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature. George Elliott Clarke. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. 492 pp. $35.95 sc; $85 hc. When George Elliott Clarke's Whylah Falls was reviewed in the African American Review, the...

Testifyin': Contemporary African Canadian Drama, Volume II.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Testifyin': Contemporary African Canadian Drama, Volume II, Djanet Sears, Ed. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2003. 604 pp. $55.00 hc. Testifyin' Volume II is a collection of extremely powerful plays that range in theme from land rights...

I Know Who I Am: a Caribbean Woman's Identity in Canada.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... I Know Who I Am: A Caribbean Woman's Identity in Canada. Yvonne Bobb-Smith. Toronto: Women's Press, 2003. 250 pp. $26.95 sc. Yvonne Bobb-Smith's I Know Who I Am: A Caribbean Woman's Identity in Canada uses the Caribbean term ramajay to...

Looking Through My Mother's Eyes: Life Stories of Nine Italian Immigrant Women in Canada.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Looking Through My Mother's Eyes: Life Stories of Nine Italian Immigrant Women in Canada. Giovanna Del Negro. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2003. 147 pp. $12.00 sc. Giovanna Del Negro sheds light on women's experiences and voices, especially...

The In-Between World of Vikram Lall.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The In-Between World of Vikram Lall. M.G. Vassanji. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2003. 405 pp. $35.95 sc. M.G. Vassanji won the 2003 Giller Prize for The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, an engaging, lucid, and above all, emotionally honest...

China Diary. The Life of Mary Austin Endicott.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... China Diary. The Life of Mary Austin Endicott. Shirley Jane Endicott. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003. 250 pp. $24.95 sc. Mary Endicott was of a generation in which being a wife was a profession. From a well-to-do...

Isabelle's Notebooks.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Isabelle's Notebooks. Sylvie Chaput. Toronto: Guernica, 2002. 265 pp. $15.00 sc. Sylvie Chaput's Isabelle's Notebooks is a historical novel that takes place between 1819 and 1845 in Quebec City, which was then part of Lower Canada. Its...

The Salt Fish Girl: a Novel.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Salt Fish Girl: A Novel. Larissa Lai. Toronto: Thomas Allen, 2002. 269 pp. $22.95 sc. This novel, like Larissa Lai's debut novel, When Fox is a Thousand (1995), tells not one but two stories. The narrative moves historically from the...

The Swinging Bridge.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Swinging Bridge. Ramabai Espinet. Toronto: HarperFlamingo Canada, 2003. 307 pp. $32.95 hc. Ramabai Espinet moves into fiction for adults with this novel of partially losing and partially finding cultural reference points. From India to...

Fox on the Ice.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Fox on the Ice. Tomson Highway (Brian Deines, Illus.). Toronto: HarperCollins, 2003. 32 pp. $19.99 hc; Muniji'j Becomes a Man. Saqamaw Mi'sel Joe (Clara Dunn, Illus.). St. John's, NL: Breakwater, 2003. 63 pp. $9.95 sc; The Song Within My Heart....

Emily Carr: at the Edge of the World.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Emily Carr: At the Edge of the World. Jo Ellen Bogart (Maxwell Newhouse, Illus.). Toronto: Tundra, 2003.40 pp. $24.99 hc; Four Pictures by Emily Carr. Nicolas Debon. Toronto: Groundwood, 2003.32 pp. $15.95 hc. Broadly speaking, these two...