Social Science, Discrimination & Race Relations
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The Audacity of Inclusion
Fighting for the Equality of Persons Labelled Intellectually Disabled by Dulcie McCallum
One beautiful, surprisingly warm spring morning on the isolated islands of Haida Gwaii, an insight smacked Dulcie McCallum in the face with the force of an unexpected tsunami: at the heart of it all, the law was the culprit. Rather than promoting...
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Façonné par la Haine, l’Exclusion et le Racisme
Comment Naviguer et Réussir dans un environnement hostile by Tarcisse Ruhamyandekwe
Ce livre raconte l’histoire de Tarcisse Ruhamyandekwe dont le parcours a commencé à sa naissance au Rwanda. Dans sa vie, il a vécu tellement d’actes d’exclusion, de discrimination et de racisme que sa première réaction était toujours de les...
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Overrepresented
Indigenous Women as Profit Makers for the Canadian Judicial System by Annette Vermette
The frequency and severity of crime in Canada has been declining, however, the criminalization of Indigenous women is on the rise. How to account for this disparity? With sharp intelligence, inherent wisdom, and the grit of an investigative...
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My Story: Embracing My Stutter
by Jane Ngabirano
This book is about my life growing up and living with a speech challenge. It is the kind of book I wish I had read when I was 13 years old and even as an adult. It is a book that encourages anyone living with a challenge real or perceived, to not...
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Mirrors & Reflections
Knowing Your Power: From One Muslim Immigrant Sister to Another by Khulood Agha Khan
This guidebook peeks into the lives of Muslim immigrant women in Canada from around the world. The book begins with a land acknowledgement in an immigrant style where we recognize the stolen land that is being forced to share. It mentions some...
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White Power
America on the Brink by Terol
In his provocative new memoire, Terol recounts the racist history of the United States of America, interrogating the fraught socio-political climate of the last eighty years. Beginning with his parents in 1943 and exploring his own experiences...
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Canadian Colonialism
Past and Present by Boris W. Kishchuk
For anyone interested in Canadian history and past and present racism in Canada, this is a thoroughly researched exploration of Canada’s history of internal colonialism, starting in the mid-1800s. The author gives thirty examples of Canadian...
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Shaped by Hate, Exclusion and Racism
How to Navigate and Rise in a Hostile Environment by Tarcisse Ruhamyandekwe
This book tells a story of Tarcisse Ruhamyandekwe whose journey started at his birth in Rwanda. In his life, he has experienced so many acts of exclusion, discrimination and racism, so many times that his first reaction has been always to ignore...
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Colonization and Imperialism in Libraries
Perspective from a Caribbean Immigrant by Mark-Shane Scale
Former university lecturer and Caribbean immigrant Mark-Shane Scale offers an unsettling look at how the centuries-old legacy of colonialism and imperialism continues to haunt one of the most seemingly innocuous and unexpected of spaces: the...
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Diamond Gods Of the Morning Sun
The Vancouver Asahi Baseball Story by Ron Hotchkiss
This is the story of the Asahi, a Japanese Canadian baseball team that was formed in 1914 and competed in Vancouver's Caucasian leagues between 1918 and 1941. Using a strategy called "brain ball," the smaller Japanese defeated the larger white...
