Browsing by Subject "Race"
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Attracting and Retaining Academic Talent in the City of Kingston, Ontario
(2009-07-23)Recent analyses of creativity in the North American economy have underscored the importance of city-regions in the generation of economic dynamism. These studies have been concerned with at least two principal assertions. ... -
Bullying in a Multicultural Context: The Influences of Race, Immigrant Status, and School Climate on the Incidence of Bullying in Canadian Children and Adolescents
(2009-09-16)Strong group affiliations based on race have been found in children at a very young age (Aboud, 1988) and may lead to a higher risk of involvement in bullying for certain racial groups. Little research, however, has addressed ... -
Colour Matters: From Pigment to Skin
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Creoles of Louisiana’s Southwest: Race, place, and belonging
While much scholarly attention has focused on Southwestern Louisiana’s white Cajun communities, comparatively few academics have explored the traditions of the Creoles, a mixed-race Francophone group whose members often ... -
A Dream Denied: The Fight Against the Mass Eviction of Families in Chicago and Jacksonville, USA
The foreclosure crisis that followed the depression 2007–08 created a number distressed communities in two of the hardest hit cities across the United States, Chicago, and Jacksonville. Homeownership has long been the ... -
Eating Versus Selling Authenticity: Negotiating Toronto's Vietnamese Culinary Landscape
(2012-10-18)Despite the popularity of Vietnamese cuisine in Toronto, there is limited understanding of how this culinary cuisine is socially constructed through its consumption and production. This thesis research examines the production ... -
Entrenched and (Un)spoken: Neoliberalism and Canadian Microfinance
(2014-09-23)This dissertation focuses on microfinance in the Canadian context. While heavily documented in regions of the global South, information on microfinance within Canada is limited. Two interconnected research objectives are ... -
‘Equality Now!’: Race, Racism and Resistance in 1970s Toronto
(2012-08-30)This thesis explores the recognition of institutional racism in Ontario. It examines discourses of institutional racism between the late 1960s and early 1980s and argues that the recognition of institutional racism at ... -
Forging Iconographies and Casting Colonialism: Monuments and Memories in Ontario, 1850-2001
(2016-09-23)Commemorations are a critical window for exploring the social, political, and cultural trends of a specific time period. Over the past two centuries, the commemorative landscape of Ontario reaffirmed the inclusion/exclusion ... -
Governing Forced Migration in Racial Capitalism: Refugee Survival in Paris and Nairobi
This dissertation examines the international, national, and urban dimensions of refugee governance and the geographies of survival in two major refugee hosting cities in the global North and global South: Paris, France and ... -
How Compassionate Education can Assist in Repairing Injustice: A Study into the Enduring Injustices of Black People
The focus of this project is to think more deeply, and also differently, about the injustices experienced by Black people. One initial problem is that of reparations: why have reparations never been given to Black people ... -
How Race Affects the Media's Coverage of Candidates in Canadian Politics
(2013-04-24)This study examines how race affects the media’s coverage of candidates in Canadian politics. Situated in the literature on political communication, gendered mediation and race studies, it proposes a new theory of racial ... -
Influence of race/ethnicity on prevalence and presentation of endometriosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis
(2019-03-25)Background Understanding the impact of race/ethnicity on the prevalence and presentation of endometriosis may help improve patient care. Objective To systematically review the evidence for the influence of race/ethnicity ... -
Making 'Mr. Hockey': Race, Gender, Class, and Nation in Media Representations of Gordie Howe
In this dissertation I study media representations of Gordie Howe, also known as ‘Mr. Hockey,’ who has been an idealized image of a hockey player and a ‘true’ Canadian during the Canadian postwar era. By taking Howe as ... -
Making Hair Matter: Untangling Black Hair/Style Politics
(2010-06-23)Hair is a remarkably complex material-semiotic entity. Caught on the cusp between self/society, meticulously contrived and purposely styled, hair is crucial in the articulation of identity and difference. However, although ... -
Mapping Vulnerability, Picturing Place: Negotiating safety in the post-immigration phase
(2008-11-25)This thesis examines the experiences and interpretations of place of immigrant women in Kingston and Peterborough, Ontario. Immigrant women in smaller Canadian cities contend with a varied and unique set of circumstances ... -
Mémoire, histoire et identités sociales: le role des représentations sociales dans la formation des identités sociales et dans la construction de la connaissance historique par les élèves
(Faculty of Education, Queen's University, 2002)This article will discuss how socially constructed representations of the past concerning the role black people played in the memory of Brazil persist in the pupils' minds, requiring cautious approach by teachers. The ... -
Nation, Race, and the Cultural Political Economy of Art for Social Change Philanthropy in Canada
The arts are increasingly celebrated as a powerful mechanism for a philanthropic sector seeking to address some of society’s most pressing social and economic challenges. Over the past decade, “art for social change” [AFSC] ... -
Pinay, Balikbayan, Canadian: The Transnational Trajectories of Filipinas (As Domestic Workers)
(2015-09-26)This thesis examines and critiques how the intersections of race, gender, and class in our current neoliberal environment produce particular complexities that are unique to women within the global chain of care. I will ... -
Queer (and) Chinese: On Be(long)ing in Diaspora and Coming Out of Queer Liberalism
Being bicultural, Chinese Canadian LGBTQ people face a double jeopardy in navigating a white heteropatriarchal society while striving for acceptance within their own Chinese Canadian communities. My project records the ...