Racism & Discrimination

Comments on the importance of cultural context in court cases involving Aboriginal women and women of colour.

A story about identity and accepting who you are.

Story about accepting who you are.

Author examines three different tenets of colonial thought, “that some persons are things, that matter is inert, and that some humans are autonomous of an ecological matrix,” through the lens of art-based projects that responded to the Guatemalan counter-insurgency war (1960—1996).

Draws on the authors' experience in teaching a cross-cultural course to a predominantly non-Aboriginal class to identify attitudes that cause resistance to admitting racism is a problem.

Discussion, at the structural level, about the kind of education that is provided to Canada’s Indigenous peoples. The article also discusses a social activist, Shannen Koostachin, and her campaign to engage in social action in order to pressure the federal government to build a new school.

Presents a look at Native American sports through the years, including traditional, boarding school, reservation, and professional sports.

Critical analysis of This Bridge Called My Back, relating classroom experience and sense of responsibility held by a lone Indigenous woman student in a mainstream classroom.

Presents interview data gained from wide range of people living in southeast Australia about what they know and how they feel about Australian Aboriginal people and issues.

Excerpt from Unlimited Boundaries: Dichotomy of Place in Contemporary Native American Art exhibition organized by The Albuquerque Museum in collaboration with the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, January 28-April 15, 2007.

Discusses the anti-blackness within Indigenous communities and how confederate monuments are symbols of the Cherokee and Chickasaws own long history of racial discrimination against African Americans.

Looks at Buffalo Bills "Wild West" show which travelled across England, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Holland and Belgium between 1886 and 1906.

Authors comments on the inequities that exist due to the Euro-American conquest of Native Americans by an analysis of Erdrich's Love Medicine.

Essay arguing for a way of reading responsibly that takes into account socioeconomic realities. The essay further argues that the roles of reader and critic must also become that of active teacher and citizen to become agents for change.

Book review of: When The Other Is Me by Emma LaRocque.

Discusses how Maria Clara Sharupi Jua incorporates the customs and beliefs of her homeland in her poetry to defend the the Shuar culture.

Global Development Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Queen's University, 2017.

Includes film review, suggestions for appropriate courses, discussion of pedagogical usefulness, and study questions.

Movie about a young girl and her brother who are forced to attend residential school. Duration: 1:37:23.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 2005.

Book review of: Where the Waters Divide by Michael Mascarenhas.

Author uses critical whiteness theory, Indigenous and non-Indigenous legal theory, and coloniality theories to examine the practices and role of mainstream governments, legal institutions, and white activists minimizing and perpetuating colonial discourses.

Comments on Prime Minister John Howard's refusal to listen to or apologize to Australian's stolen generations.

Looks at an incident that took place in Victoria, Australia in 1891 between a white girl and an Aboriginal boy.

Author explores the contested historical memory of violent engagement between the Unites States government and Indigenous peoples in the mid to late 1800s, and how those narratives have contributed to the idea of American innocence in relation to the displacement genocide of Indigenous peoples.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 1999.

Book review of: White Man's Club: Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation by Jacqueline Fear-Segal.

Book review of: White Man's Club: Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation by Jacqueline Fear-Segal.

Note: The title, description and image of this item uses wording and imagery that was common in mainstream society of that time period in history. As such, it contains language that is no longer in common use and may offend some readers. This wording should not be construed to represent the views of the Indigenous Studies Portal or the University of Saskatchewan Library. Two separate images of a woman, one white, one Aboriginal, in a waterfall. The white woman has wings and appears to represent Niagara's Maid of the Mist legend.

Book review of: White Mother to a Dark Race by Margaret D. Jacobs.

Book review of: White Mother to a Dark Race by Margaret Jacobs.

Human Geography & Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, (Okanagan), 2010.

Book review of: The White Possessive by Aileen Moreton-Robinson.

Women's Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Ottawa, 2016.

Excerpt from a dissertation entitled The Attitudes of Selected Educational Groups in Arizona Toward Indians..

Looks at the complexity of the construct of 'whiteness'.

Analyzes the, 'Closing the Gap' speech made in 2011, by then Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, which addresses Indigenous disadvantage.

Book review of: Who Are Our Enemies? edited by Ann Curthoys and Andrew Markus.

Looks at the struggle Native Americans had with racial classification.

Author asserts that Indigenous African knowledge about gorillas has been excluded from contemporary conservation efforts and that this limits their effectiveness. Argues that in order to engage Indigenous knowledge conservationists must reflect on their own ways of knowing and accept different understandings of ecology.

Discusses reasons Sahnish individuals enlisted in the U.S. Army.