Performing Female Blackness

By Naila Keleta-Mae
Subjects: Performing Arts, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies

Performing Female Blackness examines race, gender, and nation in Black life using critical race, feminist and performance studies methodologies.

This book examines what private and public performances ...

The Chippewas of Georgina Island

Edited by John L. Steckley, Leah Atkinson, Albert Big Canoe, Andrew Big Canoe, Lauri Hoeg, Susan Hoeg, and Barbara McDonald
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Indigenous Studies, Social Science, Anthropology

The Chippewas of Georgina Island is a record of the history of an Indigenous community and the stories and photographs of the lives of community members over the years. A work of community storytelling ...

(Re)Generation

By Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Edited by Dallas Hunt
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Poetry, Indigenous Studies
Series: Laurier Poetry

(Re)Generation contains selected poetry by Anishinaabe writer Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm that deals with a range of issues: from violence against Indigenous women and lands to Indigenous erotica and the joyous ...

The Queer Evangelist

By Cheri DiNovo
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Urban Studies, History, Canadian History, Gender Studies

Cheri DiNovo went from living on the streets as a teenager to performing the first legal same-sex marriage registered in Canada in 2001 as a United Church minister. This story of one queer kid will hopefully ...

'Membering Austin Clarke

Edited by Paul Barrett
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Social Science, Multiculturalism

'Membering Austin Clarke reflects on the life and writing of Austin Clarke, whose depictions of Black life in Canada enlarged our understanding of what Canadian literature looks like.

Despite being one ...

The New Race

By William H.H. Johnson & Jade Ferguson
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Social Science, Emigration & Immigration, Archival Studies
Series: Early Canadian Literature

William H. H. Johnson’s The Life of Wm. H. H. Johnson, from 1839 to 1900, and the New Race (1904) is the only classical slave narrative in the black North American tradition published by a British Columbian. ...

Tiff

By Sherrill Grace
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Timothy Findley (1930-2002) was one of Canada’s foremost writers—an award-winning novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who began his career as an actor in London, England. Findley was instrumental ...

A Question of Commitment

Edited by Thomas Waldock
Foreword by R. Brian Howe & Katherine Covell
Subjects: Law, Child Advocacy, Social Science, Child Studies, Social Work
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

With the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), commentators began to situate the evolution of the status of children within the context of the “property to persons” ...

Limelight

By Katja Lee
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Life Writing, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Life Writing

At the heart of fame is the tricky business of image management. Over the last 115 years, the celebrity autobiography has emerged as a popular and useful tool for that project. In Limelight, Katja Lee ...

The Black Prairie Archives

Edited by Karina Vernon
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Social Science, Multiculturalism, Archival Studies

The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology recovers a new regional archive of “black prairie” literature, and includes writing that ranges from work by nineteenth-century black fur traders and pioneers, ...