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Debating Dissent: Canada and the Sixties
Generation has dominated sixties scholarship since the baby-boomers came of age in the 1960s. Early historical scholarship, often written by those who participated in the events, emphasized a rupture with the past. These writers focused...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 146-47
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Perfect Youth: The Birth of Canadian Punk
As the angry, impetuous, and disobedient stepchild of rock-and-roll, punk has become an increasingly popular topic for academic and popular writers. Yet, as Sam Sutherland’s Perfect Youth demonstrates, Canadian contributions have often gone unnoticed. In...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 151-52
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InJustice Served: The Story of British Columbia’s Italian Enemy Aliens During World War II
Historical redress is a touchy subject and should be handled with care. At root, it is a question about what to address. InJustice Served is funded by the vaguely termed “Community Historical Recognition Program” (CHRP),...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 235-234
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Canadian Liberalism and the Politics of Border Control, 1867-1967
Always among the more contentious of Canadian public policies, the control of immigration, legal and illegal, is once again on the front burner. Political scientist Christopher Anderson sets himself the task of explaining the broad...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 143-44
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Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers
Seeing Red is a tough read. It’s tough because the sheer amount of data gathered from Canadian newspapers ends up, at times, reading like endless lists of information, rather than a coherent narrative, argument, or...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 127-28
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Subverting Exclusion: Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885-1928
In 1871 in the process of dismantling the mibun or caste system that had been the basis of Japanese politics and society for hundreds of years, the fledgling Meiji government emancipated the buraku jūmin, or...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 144-45
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Orienting Canada: Race, Empire and the Transpacific
The history of Canada’s Pacific relations has long been a neglected subject. The general consensus was that Pacific relations were not central to understanding the history of the country and its place in the world....
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 128-131
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First Person Plural: Aboriginal Storytelling and the Ethics of Collaborative Authorship
While Sophie McCall’s book is aimed primarily at readers of Aboriginal literary studies, she hopes that her book also will be of interest to “scholars investigating the problem of textualizing Aboriginal oral narrative.” This review...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 229-230
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Who Killed Janet Smith?
In late July 1924 in a house in the upper crust neighbourhood of Shaughnessy Heights, Vancouver, around midday, a Scots nursemaid was found dead in the basement by the Chinese “house boy,” Wing Fong Sing....
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 185-187
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Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom
Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las; Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom follows one woman’s involvement with “colonial interventions” (407) into Kwa’waka’wakw economics, government, and religion in the late nineteenth and early...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 228-229
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The Principle of Tsawalk: An Indigenous Approach to Global Crisis
Do the theories and worldviews of the Enlightenment unfold all there is to know about reality? Can the political relationships between Canadians and Indigenous peoples be mended solely through Eurocentric remedies? Can settler Canadians and...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 171-72
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Nowhere Else on Earth: Standing Tall for the Great Bear Rainforest
The Great Bear Rainforest, also known as the North and Central Coast of British Columbia, is one of the last intact temperate rainforests left in the world. This region has received much attention since 1989,...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 199-201
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Indigenous Peoples in Liberal Democratic States: A Comparative Study of Conflict and Accommodation in Canada and India
The author is a professor of Political Science in Shillong, the capital of the tiny hill state of Magalaya in the tribal area of North Eastern India. This is a state that, by official figures,...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 138-39
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Brian Jungen
The book provides an overview of the career of the artist Brian Jungen, consisting of essays by Daina Augaitis and four other notable curators — Cuauhtémoc Medina, Ralph Rugoff, Kitty Scott, and Trevor Smith. The...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 148-50
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Dim Sum Stories: A Chinatown Childhood
Vancouver’s Chinatown has been the subject of numerous notable academic studies, providing a focus that has proven to be essential to the Canadian historical narrative. In analyzing the history of Vancouver’s Chinatown, scholars have made...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 190-91
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Vancouver Noir: 1930-1960
In the August 1946 issue of the French cinema studies journal, L’écran française, French critic Nino Frank used the term “film noir” to describe a new generation of American crime films only recently allowed into...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 143-44
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The Life and Art of Mildred Valley Thorton
Sheryl Salloum’s new book The Life and Art of Mildred Valley Thornton explores why this important BC artist has generally been ignored in the historical record and cultural landscape of this province. Given that she...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 181-2
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Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada
Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada is a valuable contribution to an emerging discourse within the field of Indigenous Studies. It furthers a multi-disciplinary dialogue by exploring the relationships between transnationalism, diaspora,...