1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783631103321

Titolo

Claiming space [[electronic resource] ] : racialization in Canadian cities / / Cheryl Teelucksingh, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfred Laurier University Press, c2006

ISBN

1-280-46570-0

9786610465705

1-55458-137-0

1-4237-8560-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TeelucksinghCheryl <1965->

Disciplina

305.8/00971

Soggetti

Sociology, Urban - Canada

Canada Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. TOWARD CLAIMING SPACE:Theorizing racialized spaces in Canadian cities; 2. THE NEW YELLOW PERIL: The rhetorical construction of Asian Canadian identity and cultural anxiety in Richmond; 3. CARVING OUT A SPACE OF ONE'S OWN: The Sephardic Kehila Centre and the Toronto Jewish community; 4. MAPPING GREEKTOWN: Identity and the making of "place"" in suburban Calgary; 5. THERE IS NO ALIBI FOR BEING (BLACK)? Race, dialogic space, and the politics of trialectic identity; 6. CO-MOTION IN THE DIASPORIC CITY: Transformations in Toronto's public culture

7. BLACK MEN IN FROCKS: Sexing race in a gay ghetto (Toronto)8. "SALT-WATER CITY"": The representation of Vancouver in Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Café and Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony; 9. GAMBLING ON THE EDGE: The moral geography of a First Nations casino in "Las Vegas North"; 10. LIVING WITH THE TRAUMATIC: Social pathology and the racialization of Canadian spaces; List of Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Claiming Space: Racialization in Canadian Cities critically examines the various ways in which Canadian cities continue to be racialized despite objective evidence of racial diversity and the dominant ideology of



multiculturalism. Contributors consider how spatial conditions in Canadian cities are simultaneously part of, and influenced by, racial domination and racial resistance.     Reflecting on the ways in which race is systematically hidden within the workings of Canadian cities, the book also explores the ways in which racialized people attempt to claim space. These essays

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787820503321

Titolo

Contemporary issues of equity in education / / edited by Susanne Gannon and Wayne Sawyer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-6839-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Disciplina

370.1934

Soggetti

Educational equalization - Australia

Social justice - Australia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; INTER-CHAPTER; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTERTHIRTEEN  ; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; GLOSSARY; CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

Contemporary Issues of Equity in Education argues that equity and social justice must be brought back to the centre of discussions about education. It traces international, system-wide and local effects of policies that increase marketization and competition between students, schools and systems, whilst erasing wider considerations of the socio-cultural contexts that shape educational experiences and outcomes. Leading researchers interrogate the design of educational systems for



social justice, fairness and inclusion at multiple levels from classrooms and schools through to universities and in

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910804794403321

Autore

Broadbent, L.

Titolo

Investigation of virus diseases of brassica crops / by L. Broadbent

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, : Cambridge University press, 1957

Descrizione fisica

VII, 94 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Disciplina

635.049

Locazione

FAGBC

Collocazione

A PAT 1789

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia