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  • Métis Rising: Living Our Present Through the Power of Our Past

    “Métis Rising” draws on a remarkable cross-section of perspectives to tell the histories, stories, and dreams of people from varied backgrounds, demonstrating that there is no single Métis experience – only a common sense of belonging and a commitment to justice.

  • Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality

    Mixed Race Amnesia is an ambitious and critical look at how multiraciality is experienced in the global north. Drawing on a series of interviews she conducted with twenty-four women of mixed race, acclaimed geographer Minelle Mahtani explores some of the assumptions and attitudes people have around multiraciality.

  • Metis: Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood

    Metis: Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood University of British Columbia Press 2014-05-12 284 pages 6 x 9 in. Hardcover ISBN: 9780774827218 Chris Andersen, Research and Associate Professor of Native Studies University of Alberta Ask any Canadian what “Métis” means, and they will likely say “mixed race” or “part Indian, part white.” Canadians…

  • Identity Politics in the Public Realm: Bringing Institutions Back In

    Identity Politics in the Public Realm: Bringing Institutions Back In University of British Columbia Press 2011-10-11 308 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780774820813    Edited by: Avigail Eisenberg, Professor of Political Science University of Victoria Will Kymlicka, Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy Queen’s University In an age of multiculturalism and identity politics, many minority groups seek some…

  • One of the Family: Metis Culture in Nineteenth-Century Northwestern Saskatchewan

    In “One of the Family,” Brenda Macdougall draws on diverse written and oral sources and employs the concept of wahkootowin—the Cree term for a worldview that privileges family and values relatedness between all beings—to trace the emergence of a distinct Metis community at Île à la Crosse in northern Saskatchewan.

  • Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921

    Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921 University of British Columbia Press 2009-05-15 288 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780774816335 Paperback ISBN: 9780774816342 Renisa Mawani, Associate Professor of Sociology University of British Columbia Contemporary discussions of multiculturalism and pluralism remain politically charged in former settler societies. Colonial Proximities historicizes these contestations by illustrating…