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  • Sovereign Bodies, Sovereign Spaces

    Urban Indigenous Health Activism in the United States and Australia

    by Maria John ...
    Series series Critical Indigeneities
    Statistics indicate that Indigenous people worldwide suffer disproportionately poor health outcomes. Since the mid-twentieth century, health activism has become increasingly central to expressions of Indigenous sovereignty and survivance. In this innovative comparative study, Maria John assesses the histories of urban Indigenous health activism in the United States and Australia and how it has ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • East of East

    The Making of Greater El Monte

    by Romeo Guzmán, Carribean Fragoza, Alex Sayf Cummings, Ryan Reft, Aurelie Roy, Maria John, Karen Wilson0, Daniel Lynch1, Daniel Cady2, Yesenia Barragan3, Mark Bray4, Melquiades Fernandez5, Rachel Newman6, Nick Juravich7, Juan Herrera8, Adam Goodman9, Daniel Morales0, Daniel Medina1, Andre Kobayashi Deckrow2, David Reid3, Jennifer Renteria4, Michael Weller5, Jude Webre6, Troy Andreas Araiza Kokinis7, Apolonio Morales8, Stacy I. Macías9, Michael Jaime-Becerra0, Alex Espinoza1, Toni Margarita Plummer2, Salvador Plascencia3, Wendy Cheng4 ...
    Series series Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
    East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries, from eighteenth-century Spanish colonization to twenty-first century globalization. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, creative nonfiction and original art, the book provides a radical new history of El Monte ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • The Colonial Problem

    An Indigenous Perspective on Crime and Injustice in Canada

    by Lisa Monchalin ...
    Indigenous peoples are vastly overrepresented in the Canadian criminal justice system. The Canadian government has framed this disproportionate victimization and criminalization as being an "Indian problem."In The Colonial Problem, Lisa Monchalin challenges the myth of the "Indian problem" and encourages readers to view the crimes and injustices affecting Indigenous peoples from a more culturally ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • About Canada: Women’s Rights

    by Penni Mitchell ...
    Series Book 7 - About Canada
    This accessible and engaging book introduces readers to key historical events, and the women who were central to them, in the struggle for women’s equality in Canada. Four and a half decades after the report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, the feminist struggle is as necessary as ever — but thanks to the hard work of activist women, many forms of discrimination are a thing of the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters

    Edited by Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell, Christi Belcourt ...
    In Keetsahnak / Our Murdered and Missing Indigenous Sisters, the tension between personal, political, and public action is brought home starkly as the contributors look at the roots of violence and how it diminishes life for all. Together, they create a model for anti-violence work from an Indigenous perspective. They acknowledge the destruction wrought by colonial violence, and also look at ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Surviving Canada

    Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal

    Edited by Kiera L. Ladner, Myra J. Tait ...
    Surviving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal (ARP Books) is a collection of elegant, thoughtful, and powerful reflections about Indigenous Peoples’ complicated, and often frustrating, relationship with Canada, and how—even 150 years after Confederation—the fight for recognition of their treaty and Aboriginal rights continues. Through essays, art, and literature, Surviving ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • About Canada: Queer Rights

    by Peter Knegt ...
    Series Book 1 - About Canada
    Is Canada a “queer utopia”? Canada was the fourth country in the world – and the first in the Western Hemisphere – to legalize same-sex marriage. Queer people in Canada enjoy many of the same legal rights as heterosexuals, and social acceptance of homosexuality has grown exponentially. But are these the goals that queer activists hoped to achieve? Is this legal regulation and normalization of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • An Act of Genocide

    Colonialism and the Sterilization of Aboriginal Women

    by Karen Stote ...
    During the 1900s eugenics gained favour as a means of controlling the birth rate among “undesirable” populations in Canada. Though many people were targeted, the coercive sterilization of one group has gone largely unnoticed. An Act of Genocide unpacks long-buried archival evidence to begin documenting the forced sterilization of Aboriginal women in Canada. Grounding this evidence within the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Forever Loved: Exposing the hidden Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada

    by Lavell Memee.D Harvard ...
    The hidden crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada is both a national tragedy and a national shame. In this ground-breaking new volume, as part of their larger efforts to draw attention to the shockingly high rates of violence against our sisters, Jennifer Brant and D. Memee Lavell-Harvard have pulled together a variety of voices from the academic realms to the ... Read more

    $26.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond White Guilt

    The real challenge for black-white relations in Australia

    by Sarah Maddison ...
    'This book lays out the way modern Australia can right the wrongs that have occurred in the intervening years, and decades, and centuries that have passed since that first dramatic encounter.' - From the foreword by The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG'An excellent diagnosis of Australia's mind-set.' - Jeff McMullen journalist, author, film makerDeep in our hearts, Australians know that our nation was ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Law and Society

    Canadian Edition

    by Steven Vago, Adie Nelson, Veronica Nelson, Steven E. Barkan ...
    Law and Society provides a balanced and comprehensive analysis of the interplay between law and society using both Canadian and international examples. This clear and readable text is fi lled with interesting information, ideas and insights. All materials and supporting statistics have been carefully updated. This edition includes an expanded discussion of the law and First Nations people, recent ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Indigenous in the City

    Contemporary Identities and Cultural Innovation

    Edited by Evelyn Peters, Chris Andersen ...
    Research on Indigenous issues rarely focuses on life in major metropolitan centres. Instead, there is a tendency to frame rural locations as emblematic of authentic or "real" Indigeneity. While such a perspective may support Indigenous struggles for territory and recognition, it fails to account for large swaths of contemporary Indigenous realities, including the increased presence of Indigenous ... Read more

    $31.49 USD