Immigrant Geographies of North American Cities

(Oxford University Press, 2011)
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Immigrant Geographies of North American Cities is unique in that most chapters are written by both an American and a Canadian scholar, drawn from among the top scholars in both countries. This textbook gives students access to a wide variety of scholarly perspectives, to help create a foundation for their study and research. This book also fills a gap in the scholarly literature on immigrant geographies, by providing a textbook that compares and contrasts immigrant experiences in the United States with those experiences in Canada.

Part I examines the history of immigration in both countries, and the current immigration situation in the major receiving centres in both countries.

Part II examines the imprint of immigration on North American cities and suburbs by looking at the barriers and opportunities immigrants face in obtaining accessing housing, achieving socioeconomic and economic parity with the native-born population, access to quality health care, and improving rates of political incorporation. Part II also looks at the settlement patterns of newly arrived immigrants, compares current patterns to historical trends, and evaluates the role that gender plays in forming these patterns.

Part III examines the specific patterns of immigration for four non-European immigrant groups. The first three chapters in Part III look at the experiences of Asian, Latin American, and Black immigrants by comparing and contrasting specific countries of origin and specific receiving centres for each group in both Canada and the United States. The last chapter focuses on cross border migration between Canada and the United States and the impact that these immigrants have on their new countries.

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The Housing and Economic Experiences of Immigrants in US and Canadian Cities

(University of Toronto Press, 2015)
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Since the 1960s, new and more diverse waves of immigrants have changed the demographic composition and the landscapes of North American cities and their suburbs. The Housing and Economic Experiences of Immigrants in U.S. and Canadian Cities is a collection of essays examining how recent immigrants have fared in getting access to jobs and housing in urban centres across the continent.

Using a variety of methodologies, contributors from both countries present original research on a range of issues connected to housing and economic experiences. They offer both a broad overview and a series of detailed case studies that highlight the experiences of particular communities. This volume demonstrates that, while the United States and Canada have much in common when it comes to urban development, there are important structural and historical differences between the immigrant experiences in these two countries.

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Paper ISBN: 9781442628380
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ePub ISBN: 9781442622906
PDF ISBN: 9781442622890

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The Native Creative Process
A Contemporary Anthology

(Broadview Press, 2001)
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A collaborative discourse between Douglas Cardinal and Jeannette Armstrong with photographs by Greg Young-Ing

In this work, Jeannette Armstrong and Douglas Cardinal share their visions and insights into creativity from the perspectives of their Native ancestries. This book exposes the intricate processes behind the Native worldview as interpreted by two highly creative and talented artists whose art is an expression of their identities as Aboriginal people.

(Description Source: Theytus Press)

Author

Jeannette Armstrong is a Canadian author, educator, artist and activist. She is a professor at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan and is the Executive Director of the En’owkin Centre in Penticton, BC.

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Paper ISBN: 9780919441262

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Raven Eye

(University of Arizona Press, 2007)
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Written from thirteen years of journals, psychic and earthly, this poetry maps an uprising of a borderland indigenous woman battling forces of racism and sexual violence against Native women and children. This lyric collection breaks new ground, skillfully revealing an unseen narrative of resistance on the Mexico–U.S. border. A powerful blend of the oral and long poem, and speaking into the realm of global movements, these poems explore environmental injustice, sexualized violence, and indigenous women’s lives.

These complex and necessary themes are at the heart of award-winning poet Margo Tamez’s second book of poetry. Her poems bring forth experiences of a raced and gendered life along the border. Tamez engages the experiences of an indigenous life, refusing labels of Mexican or Native American as social constructs of a colonized people. This book is a challenging cartography of colonialism, poverty, and issues of Native identity and demonstrates these as threats to the environment, both ecological and social, in the borderlands. Each poem is crafted as if it were a minute prayer, dense with compassion and unerring optimism.

But the hope that Tamez serves is not blind. In poem after poem, she draws us into a space ruled by mythic symbolism and the ebb and flow of the landscape—a place where comfort is compromised and where we must work to relearn the nature of existence and the value of life.

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Author

Margo Tamez (Kónitsąąíí Cúelcahén Ndé/Big Water and Tall Grass Peoples), MFA, PhD, is an enrolled citizen of the Lipan Apache Band of Texas and an assistant professor in the Indigenous Studies Program at the University of British Columbia, (Okanagan Unceded Territory) Canada.

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Stepping Forward
Black Women in Africa and the Americas

(Ohio University Press, 2002)
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A unique and important study, Stepping Forward examines the experiences of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black women in Africa and African diaspora communities from a variety of perspectives in a number of different settings.

This wide-ranging collection designed for classroom use explores the broad themes that have shaped black women’s goals, options, and responses: religion, education, political activism, migration, and cultural transformation. Essays by leading scholars in the field examine the lives of black women in the United States and the Caribbean Basin; in the white settler societies of Kenya, Zimbabwe, and South Africa; and in the black settler societies of Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Among the contributors to this volume are historians, political scientists, and scholars of literature, music, and law. What emerges from their work is an image of black women’s agency, self-reliance, and resiliency. Despite cultural differences and geographical variations, black women have provided foundations on which black communities have not only survived, but also thrived. Stepping Forward is a valuable addition to our understanding of women’s roles in these diverse communities.

(Description Source: Ohio University Press)

Authors

Catherine Higgs is a professor of History in the Department of History and Sociology at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus. She earned her PhD in modern African history at Yale University. Her scholarship has focused on the intersections of religion, politics, labour, and activism; her approach is interdisciplinary and transnational. She is the author of The Ghost of Equality: The Public Lives of D. D. T. Jabavu of South Africa, 1885-1959 (Ohio University Press, 1997), and Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery and Colonial Africa (Ohio University Press, 2012). She is co-editor of Stepping Forward: Black Women in Africa and the Americas (Ohio University Press, 2002), and In India and East Africa/E-Indiya Nase East Africa: A Travelogue in IsiXhosa and English (University of the Witwatersrand Press, 2020). She is completing a book about the anti-apartheid activism of Catholic sisters in South Africa, which considers whether and how small actions can shift national policy.

Her research has been funded by the National Humanities Center, the American Philosophical Society, the Luso-American Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Before joining the University of British Columbia, she taught at the University of Tennessee, the University of Nebraska at Kearney, and at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. She teaches about Africa, Southern Africa, and the Atlantic World; newer courses focus on commodities, markets, labour and public policy, including China’s investment in Africa.

Barbara A. Moss is an assistant professor of history at Clark Atlanta University in Georgia.

Earline Rae Ferguson is an assistant professor of history at the University of Rhode Island.

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