Growing Up Canadian

Author : Peter Beyer,Rubina Ramji
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 961 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773588752

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Growing Up Canadian by Peter Beyer,Rubina Ramji Pdf

A significant number of Canadian-raised children from post-1970s immigrant families have reached adulthood over the past decade. As a result, the demographics of religious affiliation are changing across Canada. Growing Up Canadian is the first comparative study of religion among young adults of Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist immigrant families. Contributors consider how relating to religion varies significantly depending on which faith is in question, how men and women have different views on the role of religion in their lives, and how the possibilities of being religiously different are greater in larger urban centres than in surrounding rural communities. Interviews with over two hundred individuals, aged 18 to 26, reveal that few are drawn to militant, politicized religious extremes, how almost all second generation young adults take personal responsibility for their religion, and want to understand the reasons for their beliefs and practices. The first major study of religion among this generation in Canada, Growing Up Canadian is an important contribution to understanding religious diversity and multiculturalism in the twenty-first century. Contributors include Peter Beyer, Kathryn Carrière, Wendy Martin, and Lori Beaman (University of Ottawa), Rubina Ramji (Cape Breton University), Nancy Nason-Clark and Cathy Holtmann (University of New Brunswick), Shandip Saha (Athabasca University), John H. Simpson (University of Toronto), and Marie-Paule Martel-Reny (Concordia University)

Author : Gillian Creese
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487534851

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“Where Are You From?” by Gillian Creese Pdf

Metro Vancouver is a diverse city where half the residents identify as people of colour, but only one percent of the population is racialized as Black. In this context, African-Canadians are both hyper-visible as Black, and invisible as distinct communities. Informed by feminist and critical race theories, and based on interviews with women and men who grew up in Vancouver, "Where Are You From?" recounts the unique experience of growing up in a place where the second generation seldom sees other people who look like them, and yet are inundated with popular representations of Blackness from the United States. This study explores how the second generation in Vancouver redefine their African identities to distinguish themselves from African-Americans, while continuing to experience considerable everyday racism that challenges belonging as Canadians. As a result, some members of the second generation reject, and others strongly assert, a Canadian identity.

Author : Neil Sutherland
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802079830

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Growing Up by Neil Sutherland Pdf

By laying out the structure of children's lives and their childhood experiences in such settings as the home, the classroom, the church, and on streets and in the playground, the author describes how English-Canadian children grew up in 'modern' Canada.

Author : Deborah Harrison,Patrizia Albanese
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-29
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781771122580

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Growing Up in Armyville by Deborah Harrison,Patrizia Albanese Pdf

It was 2006, and eight hundred soldiers from the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) base in pseudonymous “Armyville,” Canada, were scheduled to deploy to Kandahar. Many students in the Armyville school district were destined to be affected by this and several subsequent deployments. These deployments, however, represented such a new and volatile situation that the school district lacked—as indeed most Canadians lacked—the understanding required for an optimum organizational response. Growing Up in Armyville provides a close-up look at the adolescents who attended Armyville High School (AHS) between 2006 and 2010. How did their mental health compare with that of their peers elsewhere in Canada? How were their lives affected by the Afghanistan mission—at home, at school, among their friends, and when their parents returned with post-traumatic stress disorder? How did the youngsters cope with the stress? What did their efforts cost them? Based on questions from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, administered to all youth attending AHS in 2008, and on in-depth interviews with sixty-one of the youth from CAF families, this book provides some answers. It also documents the partnership that occurred between the school district and the authors’ research team. Beyond its research findings, this pioneering book considers the past, present, and potential role of schools in supporting children who have been affected by military deployments. It also assesses the broader human costs to CAF families of their enforced participation in the volatile overseas missions of the twenty-first century.

Author : Carol Talbot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Blacks
ISBN : UOM:39015047459238

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Growing Up Black in Canada by Carol Talbot Pdf

Author : Xiaobei Chen,Rebecca Raby,Patrizia Albanese
Publisher : Canadian Scholars
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773380186

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The Sociology of Childhood and Youth in Canada by Xiaobei Chen,Rebecca Raby,Patrizia Albanese Pdf

The sociology of childhood and youth has sparked international interest in recent years, and yet a reader highlighting Canadian work in this field has been long overdue. Filling this gap in the literature, The Sociology of Childhood and Youth in Canada brings together cutting-edge Canadian scholarship in this important and growing discipline. Thought-provoking and timely, this edited collection explores a breadth of essential topics, including research on and with children and youth, the social construction of childhood and youth, intersecting identities, and citizenship, rights, and social engagement. With a focus on social justice, the contributing authors critically examine various sites of inequality in the lives of children and young people, such as gender, sexuality, colonialism, race, class, and disability. Encouraging further development of Canadian scholarship in the sociology of childhood and youth, this unique collection ensures that young people’s voices are heard by involving them in the research process. Pedagogical supports—including learning objectives, study questions, suggested research assignments, and a comprehensive glossary—make this volume an invaluable resource for students of childhood and youth studies in Canada.

Author : David Chariandy
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780771018084

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I've Been Meaning to Tell You by David Chariandy Pdf

In the tradition of Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, acclaimed novelist David Chariandy's latest is an intimate and profoundly beautiful meditation on the politics of race today. When a moment of quietly ignored bigotry prompted his three-year-old daughter to ask "what happened?" David Chariandy began wondering how to discuss with his children the politics of race. A decade later, in a newly heated era of both struggle and divisions, he writes a letter to his now thirteen-year-old daughter. David is the son of Black and South Asian migrants from Trinidad, and he draws upon his personal and ancestral past, including the legacies of slavery, indenture, and immigration, as well as the experiences of growing up a visible minority within the land of one's birth. In sharing with his daughter his own story, he hopes to help cultivate within her a sense of identity and responsibility that balances the painful truths of the past and present with hopeful possibilities for the future.

Author : Irving M. Abella,Eddie Goodman,Rosalie Sharp
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Jews
ISBN : UOM:39015040043948

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Growing Up Jewish by Irving M. Abella,Eddie Goodman,Rosalie Sharp Pdf

Author : Neil Sutherland,Cynthia Comacchio
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780889205895

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Children in English-Canadian Society by Neil Sutherland,Cynthia Comacchio Pdf

“So often a long-awaited book is disappointing. Happily such is not the case with Sutherland’s masterpiece.” Robert M. Stamp, University of Calgary, in The Canadian Historical Review “Sutherland’s work is destined to be a landmark in Canadian history, both as a first in its particular field and as a standard reference text.” J. Stewart Hardy, University of Alberta, in Alberta Journal of Educational Research Such were the reviewers’ comments when Neil Sutherland’s groundbreaking book was first published. Now reissued in Wilfrid Laurier University Press’s new series “Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada,” with a new introduction by series editor Cynthia Comacchio, this book remains relevant today. In the late nineteenth century a new generation of reformers committed itself to a program of social improvement based on the more effective upbringing of all children. In Children in English-Canadian Society, Neil Sutherland examines, with a keen eye, the growth of the public health movement and its various efforts at improving the health of children.

Author : Lindsay Herriot,Kate Fry
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781459831391

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Growing Up Trans by Lindsay Herriot,Kate Fry Pdf

What does it mean to be young and transgender today? Growing Up Trans shares stories, essays, art and poetry created by trans youth aged 11 to 18. In their own words, the works illustrate the trans experience through childhood, family and daily life, school, their bodies and mental health. Together the collection is a story of the challenges, big and small, of being a young trans person. At the same time, it’s a toolkit for all young people, transgender or not, about what understanding, acceptance and support for the trans community looks like. In addition to the contributed works, there are questions and tips from experts in the field of transgender studies to challenge the reader on how to be a trans ally. Growing Up Trans came out of a series of workshops held in Victoria, British Columbia, to bring together trans youth from across the country with mentors in the community.

Author : Kathy Dobson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1550653237

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With a Closed Fist by Kathy Dobson Pdf

In the Point St. Charles of the author's childhood people move for one of two reasons: their apartment is on fire, or the rent is due. Starting in 1968, eight-year-old Kathy Dobson shares her early years growing up in Point St. Charles, an industrial slum in Montreal (now in the process of gentrification). She offers a glimpse into the culture of extreme poverty, giving an insider's view into a neighbourhood then described as the "toughest in Canada." When student social workers and medical students from McGill University invade the Point, Kathy and her five sisters witness their mother transform from a defeated welfare recipient to an angry and confrontational community organizer who joins in the fight against a city that has turned a blind eye on some of its most vulnerable citizens. When her mother wins the right for Kathy and her two older sisters to attend schools in one of Montreal's richest neighbourhoods,Kathy is thrown into a foreign world with a completely different set of rules, leading to disastrous results.

Author : James A. Onusko
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781771125000

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Boom Kids by James A. Onusko Pdf

The baby boomers and postwar suburbia remain a touchstone. For many, there is a belief that it has never been as good for youngsters and their families, as it was in the postwar years. Boom Kids explores the triumphs and challenges of childhood and adolescence in Calgary’s postwar suburbs. The boomers’ impact on fifties and sixties Canadian life is unchallenged; social and cultural changes were made to meet their needs and desires. While time has passed, this era stands still in time—viewed as an idyllic period when great hopes and relative prosperity went hand in hand for all. Boom Kids is organized thematically, with chapters focusing on: suburban spaces; the Cold War and its impact on young people; ethnicity, “race,” and work; the importance of play and recreation; children’s bodies, health and sexuality; and "the night," resistances and delinquency. Reinforced throughout this manuscript is the fact that children and adolescents were not only affected by their suburban experiences, but that they influenced the adult world in which they lived. Oral histories from former community members and archival materials, including school-based publications, form the backbone for a study that demonstrates that suburban life was diverse and filled with rich experiences for youngsters.

Author : Eternity Martis
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780771062209

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They Said This Would Be Fun by Eternity Martis Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Nonfiction Nominated for the Evergreen Award A powerful, moving memoir about what it's like to be a student of colour on a predominantly white campus. A booksmart kid from Toronto, Eternity Martis was excited to move away to Western University for her undergraduate degree. But as one of the few Black students there, she soon discovered that the campus experiences she'd seen in movies were far more complex in reality. Over the next four years, Eternity learned more about what someone like her brought out in other people than she did about herself. She was confronted by white students in blackface at parties, dealt with being the only person of colour in class and was tokenized by her romantic partners. She heard racial slurs in bars, on the street, and during lectures. And she gathered labels she never asked for: Abuse survivor. Token. Bad feminist. But, by graduation, she found an unshakeable sense of self--and a support network of other women of colour. Using her award-winning reporting skills, Eternity connects her own experience to the systemic issues plaguing students today. It's a memoir of pain, but also resilience.

Author : Harold Hugh Draper
Publisher : University of Regina Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015047864379

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Growing Up in Manitoba 1924-1941 by Harold Hugh Draper Pdf

Growing up in Manitoba consists of recollections of life in a rural Manitoba community in the 1930s from the viewpoint of a boy who grew up during that period as a member of an English farm family. Rural children were often only distantly aware of the economic trauma their parents faced because of the depression, and, instead, remember the 1930s as a time when they had an abundance of home-grown food, an array of farm animals as pets, and a vast countryside over which they could pursue their interest in the natural environment. The book also describes the difficulty that British immigrant farmers had in adapting to the requirements for successful farming on the Canadian plains, the economic insecurity of tenant farming, and the contributions these immigrants made to the education system in their new home. Those interested in the period of the Great Depression and in the history of rural Western Canada will enjoy the mixture of social history and family history in Growing Up in Manitoba.

Author : Clyde Woolman
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781039179509

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Growing Up Canadian by Clyde Woolman Pdf

The generation that came of age from 1960 to 1980 had front-row seats to the events and personalities that laid the foundation for the Canada we know today. As the generation matured, so too did the country. Chapters range from TV to sports, music to business, and stage to screen. A section includes the lengths individuals went to be “cool.” Another features Canada’s attempts to deal with the big brash neighbour-nation to the south. Equal parts history, pop culture, and trivia, the events and personalities that shaped Canada for years to come are presented with wry humour. Whether you choose this book for entertainment, for nostalgia, for easy-to-read history, or for quirky trivia, you will be reminded of how much change has occurred in Canada over a lifetime.