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This first comprehensive anthology of ethnic and aboriginal writing in Canada offers a wide range of writing styles in fiction and poetry, with a focus on Native and immigrant experiences, ethnic ancestry, and the complex spectrum of cultural differences. It begins with the first ethnic authors who wrote ethnic literature in English, and includes established and new voices that have made a difference to our understanding of Canadian identity. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Laotians are descended from Tai peoples from what is now southern China and northern Vietnam beginning approximately three thousand years ago, where many Tai peoples remain to this day. The designation Lao probably originates from an ancient people, the Wenda Laos, that were a branch of the Tai peoples and one of the groups that settled Southeast Asia. Population pressures, finding suitable habitat for wet-rice cultivation, and escape from the growing tensions of Chinese settlement and Mongol invasions pushed the Tai tribes further south along the Mekong river valleys. Evidence of these migrations are included in legends of Khun Borom, a possibly mythical king whose descendants begot the various Tai peoples. Although Lan Xang is usually considered the first Lao kingdom, although other kingdoms and principalities in what is now Laos and Isan flourished before this date. The Tai peoples pushed out earlier groups of Austronesian and Mon-Khmer peoples and established their own kingdoms. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cajuns are an ethnic group mainly living in Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of Acadian exiles (French-speaking settlers from Acadia or Nova Scotia, in the maritime provinces of what is now Canada). Today, the Cajuns make up a significant portion of south Louisiana's population, and have exerted an enormous impact on the state's culture. Acadia consisted mainly of present-day Nova Scotia, and included parts of eastern Quebec, the Maritime provinces, and modern-day Maine. The origin of the designation Acadia is credited to the explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, who on his sixteenth century map applied the ancient Greek name "Arcadia" to the entire Atlantic coast north of Virginia. "Arcadia" derives from the Arcadia district in Greece which since Classical antiquity had the extended meanings of "refuge" or "idyllic place". The Dictionary of Canadian Biography says: "In the 17th century Champlain fixed its present orthography, with the 'r' omitted, and (the Canadian historian) W.F.Ganong has shown its gradual progress northwards, in a succession of maps, to its resting place in the Atlantic Provinces." ... Read more

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In an impressive and powerful first book, Janice Acoose deconstructs stereotypical images of Indigenous women in popular literature.Iskwewak - Kah' Ki Yaw Ni Wahkomakanak is a strong addition to literary and cultural criticism, and an important resource for teachers and students alike. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Historical Studies, published by The Canadian Catholic Historical Assn. on January 1, 2003. The length of the article is 864 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Settlement, Immigration, Ethnic Groups.(Bibliography)
Publication: Historical Studies (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2003
Publisher: The Canadian Catholic Historical Assn.
Page: B17(3)

Article Type: Bibliography

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This digital document is an article from The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2007. The length of the article is 9229 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: En utilisant le Canada comme exemple, nous tentons de determiner jusqu'a quel point les immigrants adoptent l'identite ethnique de leur pays d'accueil, empruntant ou non une identite ethnique d'assimiles ou d'integres. Nous portons une attention particuliere a l'impact de l'integration economique, du nombre d'annees ecoulees depuis l'emigration, de l'origine ethnique et de l'appartenance a une minorite visible sur l'identite ethnique. Etonnamment, nos resultats demontrent que les indicateurs du succes economique tels que le statut professionnel, l'emploi et les revenus anterieurs n'ont aucune influence sur l'eventualite que les immigrants endossent ou non l'identite de leur societe d'accueil. L'analyse statistique de cet article s'appuie sur la documentation actuelle sur l'acculturation.

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Title: The acculturation of Canadian immigrants: determinants of ethnic identification with the host society *.
Author: David Walters
Publication: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 44Issue: 1Page: 37(28)

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of Regional Science, published by Canadian Journal of Regional Science on March 22, 1997. The length of the article is 4983 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: How the proportion of artificial Canadians varied among regions of Canada and ethnic origins between 1991 and 1996.
Author: Karol J. Krotki
Publication: Canadian Journal of Regional Science (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1997
Publisher: Canadian Journal of Regional Science
Volume: 20Issue: 1-2Page: 169-80

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, published by Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies on October 1, 2009. The length of the article is 8432 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: La democratie se repand de plus en plus dans le monde, mais le developpement de celle-ci a produit des nouveaux defis et questions sur la validite de la democratie liberale dans des societes ou des segments importants de la population ne partagent pas les valeurs et le mode de vie occidental. Cet article explore si les valeurs democratiques et la conduite politique varient entre les deux principaux groupes ethniques du Guatemala, les Ladinos et les Mayas. En utilisant un cadre d'analyse resultant de la science politique et des donnees provenant d`enquetes d'opinion, cet article examine les differences individuelles par rapport a l'appui a la democratie, la prevalence de valeurs autoritaires et la participation politique. Les modeles d'analyse statistique <> montrent qu'il y a des differences minimales entre les deux groupes ethniques et que ce sont plutot d'autres variables qui expliquent les variations entre les populations, en particulier, le sexe, le niveau scolaire, la perception de la corruption dans le gouvernement et l' insecurite. Bref, les resultats montrent qu'il ne semble pas y avoir une division ethnique au Guatemala par rapport aux mesures communement utilisees dans les enquetes academiques dans le monde pour evaluer la culture democratique.

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Title: Perceptions of democracy in Guatemala: an ethnic divide?(Report)
Author: Dinorah Azpuru
Publication: Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2009
Publisher: Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Volume: 34Issue: 67Page: 105(26)

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Thank you Joanna Kadi!
This is an excellent anthology of arab-american feminist writings, each essay and poem discussing how it feels to be an Arab-American woman growing up in the US.

As an Arab-American woman, I felt comforted and empowered by these writings.

A TRIMUMPH FOR ARAB-AMERICAN WOMEN
As an Arab-American woman growing up in the United States, I found this book to be very refreshing.I noticed as a child in America that Arab women were either perceived as very docile and covered from head to toe oras whores that danced seductively for men only to have alternative plans toget ahead as in the case of the book One Thousand and One Arabian Nightswhich I read when I was younger.either way, Arab women were not seen in agood light by Western culture.This is a book that presents Arab women andwomen all over the world as thinking, intelligent, and talented beings thatdeserve a say on today's social issues and women in society in general.Iactually went to a reading that featured the poets in the book as a way topromote the book in 1995 and found myself to be proud of who and what I am. I recommend this book to any women (or men) that are of Arab or Westerndecent.You will not be bored, that I can assure you.Thank you. ... Read more

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Working Families takes the reader onto the streets of Montreal and into the homes of its working-class families during the years that it became a major, industrial city. Between the 1860s and 1890s the expansion of wage labour changed the bases of family survival. It offered new possibilities and created new points of tension within the families of the emerging working class. Here we meet the men, youth, and children who worked for wages. We see the women who stayed home with their young, cooked and sewed, planted gardens and tended animals, stretching their often meagre family wages into goods and services for survival. We also see the ingenuity and agony of women whose husbands lost their jobs, fell ill, drank up their wages, deserted their families, or died.

Working Families explores the complex variety of responses of working-class families to their new lives within industrial capitalist society, and offers new ways of looking at the industrial revolution in Canada.

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This book provides an overview of the Canadian economy, society, family life, and culture, as well as confronting political and constitutional issues. Included within the text are sidebars, many of which are first-person accounts of the experiences of early explorers, settlers, ordinary citizens, and politicians, which offer fascinating perspectives on key moments in the development of Canada as a nation. ... Read more

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An introduction to literature and also a text for courses in composition, multicultural, or contemporary American literature.

Contemporary, Cross-Cultural, American Writing. With 28 stories, 30 essays and autobiographical narratives, 90 poems , and 6 plays, New Worlds of Literature, Second Edition, Brings together vibrant new Writing that reflects the diverse ethnic, cultural, and social worlds of North America and the Caribbean today. Among the many writers new to the Second Edition are Julia Alvarez, Sandra Cisneros, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Tato Laviera, David Leavitt, Derek Walcott, and John  Edgar Wideman.

A Strengthened Connection between Reading and Writing. Nine student papers, a new section on writing about literature, an abundance of writing topics and study questions, thematic chapter introductions, and Afterwords on the elements of literature together guide students toward careful reading and thoughtful writing.

Instructor's Guide This handy guide, by Carolina Hospital, Miami-Dade Community College, and Carlos Medina, includes suggestions for activities and writing topics, discussions of each selection in the text, teaching strategies, and sample syllabi. Available to instructors upon request.

Voices of New Worlds Video This video of three writers reading from their work—Agha Shahid Ali, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and Alberto Alvaro Ríos—brings the selections in New Worlds of Literature, Second Edition, to life in your classroom. Available upon adoption.

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Outstanding Contemporary Literature Book
What I like about this book is the diversity it offers in terms of the authors published in the book.It is very much appreciated reading about contemporary authors who are Native-Americans, African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Asian-Americans, and the like.Their views and writings certainly have added a diverse perspective to the world of literature. The poems, short stories, essays, and fictional drama pieces in the book open a new dimension and perspective in literature.The writings are refreshing and stimulating.They are closely related to reality and allow the imaginative spirit to expand and create specific imagery to go with selected pieces in the book.The instructive portion of the text is wonderful.Each chapter starts with an introduction and insight of what is to come.It breaks down the reading in such a way that the understanding is clear and unambiguous.The variety of exercises following each chapter allows for new perspectives, discussions, visions, and interpretations.This is an excellent book to read.Other excellent books to read are:"Trilogy Moments for the Mind, Body and Soul" with the new Epulaeryu poetry form; "The Language of Poetry Forms" by Tree Good; and, "Everyday Miracles" by Margaret Okubo.

Literature from America's many ethnic groups
I have used this book for several years as a text in Composition classes. I even used it in writing classes in Africa. It's a "multicultural" text. The wonderful choices (fiction, nonfiction,poetry, drama) show that no matter who you are, you can use the powerfultool of the English language to write about your own experiences. Seemsobvious, but perhaps not. Great writing suggestions, too, just about aperfect book. It's too expensive, of course. But in the end, worth it. Iwish they'd come out with a third edition! ... Read more