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  • Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society

    “Race, Space, and the Law” belongs to a growing field of exploration that spans critical geography, sociology, law, education, and critical race and feminist studies. Writers who share this terrain reject the idea that spaces, and the arrangement of bodies in them, emerge naturally over time. Instead, they look at how spaces are created and…

  • Who is an Indian?: Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas

    Who is an Indian?: Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas University of Toronto Press August 2013 272 pages Paper ISBN: 9780802095527 Cloth ISBN: 9780802098184 Edited by: Maximilian C. Forte, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Who is an Indian? This is possibly the oldest question facing…

  • Real Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood [Review by Steve George]

    Real Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood [Review by Steve George] Ethnicities Volume 27, Number 2 (2005) Pages 272–274 Steve George Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland Real Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood. By Bonita Lawrence. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004. Pp. 303, bibliography, index,…

  • “Real” Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood

    “Real” Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood University of Nebraska Press 2004 303 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-8037-3 Bonita Lawrence, Associate Professor York University, Ontario, Canada Mixed-blood urban Native peoples in Canada are profoundly affected by federal legislation that divides Aboriginal peoples into different legal categories. In this pathfinding book, Bonita Lawrence…