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Upholding Indigenous economic relationships : nehiyawak narratives
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25716
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Wuttunee Jobin, Shalene
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 W96u
- Author
- Wuttunee Jobin, Shalene
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- xv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships explains settler colonialism through the lens of economic exploitation, using Indigenous methodologies and critical approaches. What is the relationship between economic progress in the land now called Canada and the exploitation of Indigenous peoples? And what gifts embedded within Indigenous world views speak to miyo-pimâtisiwin, the good life, and specifically to good economic relations? Shalene Wuttunee Jobin draws on the knowledge systems of the nehiyawak (Plains Cree people) - whose distinctive principles and practices shape their economic behaviour - to make two central arguments. The first is that economic exploitation was the initial and most enduring relationship between newcomers and Indigenous peoples. The second is that Indigenous economic relationships are constitutive: connections to the land, water, and other human and nonhuman beings form who we are as individuals and as peoples. This groundbreaking study employs Cree narratives that draw from the past and move into the present to reveal previously overlooked Indigenous economic theories and relationships, and provides contemporary examples of nehiyawak renewing these relationships in resurgent ways. In the process, Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships offers tools that enable us to reimagine how we can aspire to the good life with all our relations. -- Provided by publisher
- Contents
- 1. Grounding methods -- 2. Grounding economic relationships -- 3. nehiyawak peoplehood and relationality -- 4. Canada's genisis story -- 5. Warnings of insatiable greed -- 6. Indigenous women's lands and bodies -- 7. Theorizing Cree economic and governing relationships -- 8. Colonial dissonance -- 9. Principles guiding Cree economic relationships -- 10. Renewed relationships through resurgent practices --11. Upholding relations.
- ISBN
- 9780774865104
- Accession Number
- P2023.11
- Call Number
- 07.2 W96u
- Location
- Reading Room
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Indigenous media arts in Canada : making, caring, sharing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25729
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 C54m
- Responsibility
- Edited by Dana Claxton and Ezra Winton
- Publisher
- Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 437 pages
- Abstract
- A timely and crucial collection of essays and conversations focused on Indigenous-settler cultural politics and the ethics of Indigenous representation in Canada’s media arts that explores issues of narrative sovereignty, cultural identity, cultural resistance and decolonizing creative practices. -- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN
- 9781771125413
- Accession Number
- P2023.15
- Call Number
- 07.2 C54m
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Unpapered : writers consider Native American identity and cultural belonging
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26195
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 G46u
- Responsibility
- Edited by Diane Glancy and Linda Rodriguez
- Publisher
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- xiv, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous Culture
- Indigenous Customs
- Indigenous People
- Indigenous Traditions
- History
- Turtle Island
- Identity
- Colonialism
- Abstract
- Unpapered is a collection of personal narratives by Indigenous writers exploring the meaning and limits of Native American identity beyond its legal margins. Native heritage is neither simple nor always clearly documented, and citizenship is a legal and political matter of sovereign nations determined by such criteria as blood quantum, tribal rolls, or community involvement. Those who claim a Native cultural identity often have family stories of tenuous ties dating back several generations. Given that tribal enrollment was part of a string of government programs and agreements calculated to quantify and dismiss Native populations, many writers who identify culturally and are recognized as Native Americans do not hold tribal citizenship. With essays by Trevino Brings Plenty, Deborah Miranda, Steve Russell, and Kimberly Wieser, among others, Unpapered charts how current exclusionary tactics began as a response to “pretendians”—non-indigenous people assuming a Native identity for job benefits—and have expanded to an intense patrolling of identity that divides Native communities and has resulted in attacks on peoples’ professional, spiritual, emotional, and physical states. An essential addition to Native discourse, Unpapered shows how social and political ideologies have created barriers for Native people truthfully claiming identities while simultaneously upholding stereotypes --Publisher's description.
- Contents
- Introduction / by Diane Glancy -- Show Your Papers. Paperwork / Kim Shuck -- Things you can do with your chart for calculating quantum of Indian blood / Deborah Miranda -- The white box / Kimberly L. Becker -- Seeking the Indian gravy train / Steve Russell -- Unpapered / Diane Glancy -- Finding the Way. On Chumash Land / Terra Trevor -- A salmon-fishing story / Abigail Chabitnoy -- Confessions of a detribalized mixed-blood / Jeanetta Calhoun Mish -- Thinking with Bigfoot about a Jackpine Savage : cryptogenealogical reflections / Carter Meland -- Identity Wars. "You don't look Indian" / Michele Leonard -- Pretend Indian exegesis : the pretend Indian uncanny valley hypothesis in literature and beyond / Trevino Brings Plenty -- Dead Indians. Live Indians. Legal Indians. / Ron Querry -- The animals' ballgame / Geary Hobson -- We never spoke / Linda Boyden -- Why We Matter. On being Chamorro and belonging to Guam / Craig Santos Perez -- Aunt Ruby's little sister dances / Kimberly Wieser -- Buffalo heads in diners : remnant populations / Denise Dotson Low -- And thus the tribes diminish / Linda Rodriguez.
- ISBN
- 9781496235008
- Accession Number
- P2023.15
- Call Number
- 07.2 G46u
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Indigenous resurgence in an age of reconciliation
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26196
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Toronto [Ontario] ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 St2i
- Responsibility
- Edited by Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, Aime´e Craft, and Hokulani K Aikau
- Publisher
- Toronto [Ontario] ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- vi, 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous Culture
- Indigenous Customs
- Indigenous People
- Indigenous Traditions
- Reconciliation
- Colonialism
- Identity
- Gender
- Abstract
- What would Indigenous resurgence look like if the parameters were not set with a focus on the state, settlers, or an achievement of reconciliation? Indigenous Resurgence in an Age of Reconciliation explores the central concerns and challenges facing Indigenous nations in their resurgence efforts, while also mapping the gaps and limitations of both reconciliation and resurgence frameworks. The essays in this collection centre the work of Indigenous communities, knowledge, and strategies for resurgence and, where appropriate, reconciliation. The book challenges narrow interpretations of indigeneity and resurgence, asking readers to take up a critical analysis of how settler colonial and heteronormative framings have infiltrated our own ways of relating to our selves, one another, and to place. The authors seek to (re)claim Indigenous relationships to the political and offer critical self-reflection to ensure Indigenous resurgence efforts do not reproduce the very conditions and contexts from which liberation is sought. Illuminating the interconnectivity between and across life in all its forms, this important collection calls on readers to think expansively and critically about Indigenous resurgence in an age of reconciliation.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Artist Statement / Lianne Marie Leda Charlie -- Introduction: Generating a Critical Resurgence Together / Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark-- Part 1: Realizing Resurgence Together. 1. Beyond the Grammar of Settler Apologies / Mishuana Goeman -- 2. Spirit and Matter: Resurgence as Rising and (Re)creation as Ethos / Dian Million -- 3. Removing Weeds so Natives Can Grow: A Metaphor Reconsidered / Hokulani K. Aikau -- 4. (Ad)dressing Wounds: Expansive Kinship Inside and Out / Dallas Hunt -- Part 2: Claiming Our Relationships to the Political. 5. Beyond Rights and Wrongs: Towards Resurgence of a Treaty-Based Ethic of Relationality / Gina Starblanket -- 6. Thawing the Frozen Rights Theory: On Rejecting Interpretations of Reconciliation and Resurgence That Define Indigenous Peoples as Frozen in a Pre-colonial Past / Aimée Craft -- 7. Nêhiyaw Hunting Pedagogies and Revitalizing Indigenous Laws / Darcy Lindberg -- Part 3: Narrating Reconciliation and Resurgence. 8. Thinking through Resurgence Together: A Conversation between Sarah Hunt/Tlalilila’ogwa and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson / Sarah Hunt/Tlalilila’ogwa and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson -- 9. Truth-Telling amidst Reconciliation Discourses: How Stories Reshape Our Relationships / Jeff Corntassel -- 10. Political Action in the Time of Reconciliation / Corey Snelgrove and Matthew Wildcat -- Part 4: Reconciling Lands, Bodies, and Gender. 11. Body Land, Water, and Resurgence in Oaxaca / Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez -- 12. To Respect Indigenous Territorial Protocol: Hosting the Olympic Games on Indigenous Lands in Settler Colonial Canada / Christine O’Bonsawin -- 13. “Descendants of the Original Lords of the Soil”: Gender, Kinship, and an Indignant Model of Métis Nationhood / Daniel Voth -- 14. Red Utopia / Billy-Ray Belcourt.
- ISBN
- 9781487544607
- Accession Number
- P2023.10
- Call Number
- 07.2 St2i
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Blood memory : the tragic decline and improbable resurrection of the American Buffalo
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26204
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Duncan, Dayton and Burns, Ken
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf
- Call Number
- 08 D91b
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- xvi, 329 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Buffalo
- Pablo-Allard buffalo round-up
- Conservation
- Indigenous
- Colonialism
- Environment
- Ecology
- Abstract
- The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today--a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history. The American buffalo--our nation's official mammal-is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass extinction that erased ancient species that were even larger. For nearly 10,000 years, they evolved alongside Native people who weaved them into every aspect of daily life; relied on them for food, clothing, and shelter; and revered them as equals. Newcomers to the continent found the buffalo fascinating at first, but in time they came to consider them a hindrance to a young nation's expansion. And in the space of only a decade they were slaughtered by the millions for their hides, with their carcasses left to rot on the prairies. Then, teetering on the brink of disappearing from the face of the earth, they would be rescued by a motley collection of Americans, each of them driven by different--and sometimes competing--impulses. This is the rich and complicated story of a young republic's heedless rush to conquer a continent, but also of the dawn of the conservation era--a story of America at its very best and worst -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Part 1: The Trail to Extinction -- The Buffalo and the People -- Strangers -- Omen in the Skies -- The Iron Horse -- Kills Tomorrow -- Part 2: Back From the Brink -- A Death Wind for My People -- Just in the Nick of Time -- Changes of Heart -- Ghosts -- The Last Refuge -- Blood Memory -- Big Medicine.
- Notes
- Dayton Duncan ; based on a documentary film by Ken Burns ; written by Dayton Duncan ; with an introduction by Ken Burns ; picture research by Emily Mosher and Susan Shumaker ; design by Maggie Hinders.
- Whyte Museum archival collections utilized.
- ISBN
- 9780593537343
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 08 D91b
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Brave like the buffalo
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26206
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Allan, Melissa
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 07.2 Al5b
- 07.2 Al5b reference copy
- Author
- Allan, Melissa
- Responsibility
- Illustrated by Jadyn Fischer-McNab
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2023
- Subjects
- Children
- Buffalo
- Wildlife
- Indigenous
- Indigenous People
- Cree
- Abstract
- Brave Like the Buffalo is a children’s book with a message that will inspire all readers to face the storms in their life with the help of their support systems and with a brave mindset. Baby buffalo is surprised and scared when a storm on the prairies passes through. Mama buffalo puts on a brave face and demonstrates how to use courage and bravery to get through the literal and metaphorical storms we may face in life. Written by Melissa Allan and illustrated by Cree illustrator Jadyn Fischer-McNab, this story uses a powerful animal, the buffalo, as a symbolic message and connection to Indigenous ways of knowing and being that helps to create a wonderful narrative rich with Indigenous ties and a heartwarming message around facing adversity. Brave Like the Buffalo is intended for audiences aged 4-8, to be used educationally as a way to intertwine Indigenous ways of knowing and being through story. -- From publisher
- ISBN
- 9781771606448
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 07.2 Al5b
- 07.2 Al5b reference copy
- Location
- Reference copy located in Reading Room
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Blackfoot ways of knowing : the worldview of the Siksikaitsitapi
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26211
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Bastien, Betty
- Publisher
- Calgary : University of Calgary Press
- Edition
- 9th printing
- Call Number
- 07.2 B29b
- Author
- Bastien, Betty
- Responsibility
- Ju¨rgen W. Kremer, editor ; Duane Mistaken Chief, language consultant.
- Edition
- 9th printing
- Publisher
- Calgary : University of Calgary Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- xx, 235 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Blackfoot
- Siksikaitsitapi
- Indigenous
- Indigenous Culture
- Indigenous Customs
- Indigenous People
- Indigenous Traditions
- Indigenous Language
- Abstract
- The worldview of the Siksikaitsitapi is a journey into the heart and soul of Blackfoot culture. In sharing her personal story of coming home to reclaim her identity within that culture, Betty Bastien offers us a gateway into traditional Blackfoot ways of understanding and experiencing the world. As a scholar and researcher, Bastien is also able to place Blackfoot tradition within the context of knowledge building among indigenous peoples generally, and within an historical context of precarious survival amid colonial displacement and cultural genocide. -- From back cover
- Contents
- Context -- Introduction -- Innahkootaitsinnika'topi -- History of the Blackfoot-speaking tribes -- Introductory remarks -- Iitotasimahpi Iimitaiks -- The era of the dog or the time of the ancestors (Pre-eighteenth century) -- Ao'ta'sao'si Ponokaomita -- the era of the horse (eighteeneth century to 1880) -- Ao'maopao'si -- from when we settled in one place (1880) to today -- Cultural destruction -- policies of ordinary genocide -- Tribal protocol and affirmative inquiry -- Niinohkanistssksinipi -- Speaking personally -- Traditional knowledge in academe -- Cultural affirmation -- Protocol of affirmative inquiry -- Affirmation of indigenous knowledge -- Kakyosin -- traditional knowledge -- Kiitomohpiipotoko -- ontological responsibilities -- Siksikaitsitapi ways of knowing -- epistemology -- Knowledge is coming to know Ihtsipaitapiiyo'pa -- Kakyosin/Mokaksin -- Indigenous learning -- Niisi'powahsinni-language -- Aipommotsspistsi -- transfers -- Kaaahsinnooniksi -- grandparents -- Conclusion: renewal of ancestral responsibilities as antidote to genocide -- Deconstructing the colonized mind -- Eurocentred and Niitsitapi identity -- Reflections and implications.
- ISBN
- 9781552381090
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 07.2 B29b
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- Archives Library
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The Canadian mountain assessment : walking together to enhance the understanding of mountains in Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26222
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Calgary, AB : University of Calgary Press
- Edition
- 2023
- Call Number
- 04 M14c
- Responsibility
- Graham McDowell (Project Lead), Madison Stevens, Shawn Marshall [and 70 others]
- Edition
- 2023
- Publisher
- Calgary, AB : University of Calgary Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- xvii, 355 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), color maps ; 28 cm
- Subjects
- Mountains
- Ecology
- Science
- Indigenous People
- Environment
- Abstract
- The Canadian Mountain Assessment provides a first-of-its-kind look at what we know, do not know, and need to know about mountain systems in Canada. The assessment is based on insights from First Nations, Métis, and Inuit knowledges of mountains, as well as findings from an extensive assessment of pertinent academic literature. Its inclusive knowledge co-creation approach brings these multiple forms of evidence together in ways that enhance our collective understanding of mountains in Canada, while also respecting and maintaining the integrity of different knowledge systems. The Canadian Mountain Assessment is a text-based document, but also includes a variety of visual materials as well as access to video recordings of oral knowledges shared by Indigenous individuals from mountain areas in Canada. The assessment is the result of over three years of work, during which time the initiative played an important role in connecting and cultivating relationships between mountain knowledge holders from across Canada. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Mountain environments -- 3. Mountains as homelands -- 4. Gifts of the mountains -- 5. Mountains under pressure -- 6. Desirable mountain futures.
- Notes
- Staff member Dawn Saunders Dahl contributed to this publication.
- 2022-2023 Lillian Agnes Jones Scholarship Recipient, Kate Hanly contributed to this publication.
- Publication utilized Whyte Museum Archives and Special Collections materials.
- ISBN
- 9781773855097
- Accession Number
- P2024.01
- Call Number
- 04 M14c
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Decolonizing sport
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26241
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing
- Call Number
- 07.2 F77d
- Responsibility
- Edited by Janice Forsyth, Christine O'Bonsawin, Russell Field, and Murray G. Phillips
- Publisher
- Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- xi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Canada
- History-Canada
- Education
- Sport
- Indigenous
- Indigenous Culture
- Indigenous People
- Indigenous Traditions
- Indigenous Customs
- Abstract
- The path to decolonization is difficult and complex, and can even be contradictory at times, as when an Indigenous community enlists the same corporate sponsor that will destroy its natural environment to provide sport programming for its youth. There is no easy way forward. The Black Lives Matter movement, and their massive followers on social media, propelled forward discussions about the inequities that Covid-19 highlighted with unprecedented momentum. Indigenous people in Canada voiced their concerns in solidarity, calling attention to disparities they faced in everything from impoverished Indigenous health care initiatives to the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the Canadian justice system, demanding to be heard alongside systemic change. Structural adjustments were afoot, including changes in the professional sport leagues. In both the United States and Canada, people witnessed the toppling of racist sports team names and logos in the spring and summer, not the least of which included the American Washington NFL team (Redskins) and the Canadian Edmonton CFL team (Eskimos). Clearly Indigenous people and their allies saw sport as a part of this desire for social change. This multi-authored collection contributes to that desire by bringing the work of Indigenous and non-Indigenous allied scholars together to explore the history of sport, physical activity, and embodied physical culture in the Indigenous context. Including chapters that address Indigenous topics beyond the political boundaries of Canada, including the US, Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, and Kenya, this collection considers questions such as: How can the history of sport (a colonizing practice with European origins) exist in dialogue with Indigenous voices to open up possibilities for reconsidering the history of modern sport? How can Indigenous and anti-oppressive research methodologies/methods inform the study of sport history? What are the ethics and responsibilities associated with conducting an Indigenous sport or recreation history? How can sport history as a discipline be open to the study of traditional land-based recreation? How can the meanings of "sport" be made more inclusive to include a variety of recreational practices? How can sport historians learn from histories of colonization and how can they contribute to a more reciprocal approach to knowledge formation through Indigenous community engagement? How can the discipline of sport history meaningfully support movements of Indigenous resurgence, regeneration, and decolonization? -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Ways of knowing: sport, colonialism, and decolonization / Janice Forsyth, Christine O'Bonsawin, Russell Field -- Beyond competition: an Indigenous perspective on organized sport / Brian Rice -- More than a mascot: how the mascot debate erases Indigenous people in sport / Natalie Welch -- Witnessing painful pasts: understanding images of sports at Canadian Indian residential schools / Taylor McKee and Janice Forsyth -- The absence of Indigenous moving bodies: whiteness and decolonizing sport history / Malcolm MacLean -- # 87: using Wikipedia for sport reconciliation / Victoria Paraschak -- Olympism at face value: the legal feasibility of Indigenous-led Olympic Games / Christine O'Bonsawin -- Canoe racing to fishing guides: sport and settler colonialism in Mi'kma'ki / John Reid -- Transcending colonialism?: rodeos and racing in Lethbridge / Robert Kossuth -- "Men pride themselves on feats of endurance": masculinities and movement cultures in Kenyan running history / Michelle M. Sikes -- Stealing, drinking, and not cooperating: sport and everyday resistance in Aboriginal settlements in Australia / Gary Osmond -- Let's make baseball!: practices of unsettling on the recreational ball diamonds of Tkaronto/Toronto / Craig Fortier and Colin Hastings -- Subjugating and liberating at once: Indigenous sport history as a double-edge sword / Brendan Hokowhitu.
- ISBN
- 9781773636344
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 07.2 F77d
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- Archives Library
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School of racism : a Canadian history, 1830-1915
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26242
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Larochelle, Catherine
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
- Edition
- First English-language edition
- Call Number
- 08.1 L32s
- Author
- Larochelle, Catherine
- Responsibility
- Translated by S.E. Stewart
- Edition
- First English-language edition
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- viii, 464 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- Exposing the history of racism in Canada's classrooms Winner of the prestigious Clio-Quebec, Lionel-Groulx, and Canadian History of Education Association awards In School of Racism, Catherine Larochelle demonstrates how Quebec's school system has, from its inception and for decades, taught and endorsed colonial domination and racism. This English translation of the award-winning book extends its crucial lesson to readers across the country, bridging English- and French-Canadian histories to deliver a better understanding of Canada's past and present identity. Using postcolonial, antiracist, and feminist theories and methodologies, Larochelle examines late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century classroom materials used in Quebec's public and private schools. Many of these textbooks, and others like them, made their way into curricula across Canada. Larochelle's innovative analysis illuminates how textual and visual representations found in these archives constructed Indigenous, Black, Arab, and Asian peoples as "the Other" while reinforcing the collective identity of Quebec, and Canada more broadly, as white. Uncovering the origins and persistence of individual and systemic racism against people of colour, Larochelle shows how Otherness was presented to--and utilized by--young Canadians for almost a century. School of Racism names the ways in which Canada's education system has supported and sustained ideologies of white supremacy--ideologies so deeply embedded that they still linger in school texts and programming today. The book offers new insight into how Canadian and Quebecois concepts of nationalism and racism overlap, helps educators confront racism in their classrooms, and deepens urgent discussions about race and colonialism throughout Canada. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Cover -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Theories of Otherness -- Chapter 2. Other Societies: Imperialist Knowledge and Orientalist Representations -- Chapter 3. The Other-Body, or Alterity Inscribed in the Flesh -- Chapter 4. The Indian: Domination, Erasure, and Appropriation -- Chapter 5. The Other Observed or "Teaching through the Eyes" -- Chapter 6. Of Missions and Emotions: Children and the Missionary Mobilization -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
- ISBN
- 9781772840537
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 08.1 L32s
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