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What is feminism? In this short, accessible primer, bell hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

A cornerstone of African-American literary history, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work by W. E. B. Du Bois.

In 1887, Nellie Bly had herself committed to the notorious Blackwell's Island insane asylum in New York City with the goal of discovering what life was like for its patients.

This vibrant biography of Griffintown, an inner-city Montreal neighbourhood, brings to life the history of Irish identity in the legendary enclave.

Does our current system for dealing with young offenders -- which focuses on punishment -- work? Not according to the authors of this compelling and thought-provoking book.

Canada has a 100-year history of using the criminal justice system to address social problems of youth in society. Has this approach worked? Not according to clinical psychologist Mary Vandergoot.

Disabling Barriers analyzes issues relating to disability at different moments in Canadian and American history.

This book explores the complicated relationship between Hamilton Harbour and the people who came to reside on its shores.

Aboriginal people want an education that reflects their cultural values and linguistic heritages, an education that will foster their children’s engagement and identity and not marginalize them as

Ask any Canadian what “Métis” means, and they will likely say “mixed race.” Canadians consider Métis mixed in ways that other Indigenous people are not, and the census and courts have premised thei

This perceptive intellectual history explores the role of manhood in French Canadian culture and nationalism.

Theories of liberal multiculturalism have come to dominate debates about identity and difference politics in contemporary western political theory.

Until recently, most residents of Puvirnituq, an Inuit settlement in Northern Quebec, made their living off the land.

Power through Testimony documents how survivors are remembering and reframing our understanding of residential schools in the wake of the 2007 Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, which

Drawing on treaties, international law, the work of other Indigenous scholars, and especially personal experiences, Marie Battiste documents the nature of Eurocentric models of education, and their