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Reconstructions of Canadian Identity
Towards Diversity and Inclusion
Price:
CA$31.95
ISBN: 9781772840698
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
In 1971, Canada became the first nation in the world to officially declare its bilingual and multicultural policies. This incisive collection examines what has changed over the past fifty years, highlighting the lived experiences of minoritized Canadians and offering insights into the critical work that lies ahead.
The Honourable John Norquay
Indigenous Premier, Canadian Statesman
Price:
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9781772840582
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Once described as Louis Riel’s alter ego, Manitoba Premier John Norquay skirmished with John A. Macdonald and endured racist taunts while championing the interests of the Prairie West. This biography of an Indigenous political leader sheds welcome light on a neglected historical figure and a tumultuous time for Canada and Manitoba.
Bead Talk
Indigenous Knowledge and Aesthetics from the Flatlands
Price:
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781772840650
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Beading fosters traditional methods of teaching and learning and enables intergenerational transmissions of pattern and skill. These conversations, interviews, essays, and full-colour reproductions of artwork from expert and emerging artists, academics, and curators from the prairies invite us all into the beading circle.
Around the Kitchen Table
Métis Aunties' Scholarship
Price:
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781772840735
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Looking beyond the patriarchy to document and celebrate the scholarship of Métis women, Around the Kitchen Table brings together writing by new and established scholars, artists, storytellers, and community leaders that reflects the diversity of research created by Métis women as it is lived, conceptualized, and re-imagined.
mmm... Manitoba
The Stories Behind the Foods We Eat
Price:
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781772840414
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Mixing recipes, maps, archival records, biographies, and full-colour photographs with fascinating stories, mmm... Manitoba showcases the province’s diverse foodways and industries from on board the Manitoba Food History Truck.
Engraved on Our Nations
Indigenous Economic Tenacity
Price:
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781772840643
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
This first-of-its-kind collection shares stories not only of entrepreneurial excellence and persistence but of savvy leadership, innovation, and reciprocity, providing hope to Indigenous business leaders, youth, and elected officials working on the front lines to improve economic conditions and achieve “a good life” for their communities.
School of Racism
A Canadian History, 1830-1915
Price:
CA$31.95
ISBN: 9781772840537
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
This award-winning book names the ways in which Canada’s education system has supported ideologies of white supremacy—ideologies so deeply embedded that they still linger in school texts and programming today. School of Racism bridges English- and French-Canadian histories to deliver a better understanding of Canada’s identity.
The Art of Ectoplasm
Encounters with Winnipeg's Ghost Photographs
Price:
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9781772840377
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
The Art of Ectoplasm reflects on the history and legacy of T.G. and Lillian Hamilton's extraordinary collection of paranormal photographs, which have inspired and perplexed academics, historians, and artists since their creation a century ago, and offers a compelling look at a chapter in social history not entirely unlike our own.
Plundering the North
A History of Settler Colonialism, Corporate Welfare, and Food Insecurity
Price:
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781772840490
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Plundering the North provides fresh insight into Canada’s colonial project, laying bare the processes behind the chronic food insecurity experienced by northern Indigenous communities by charting the social, economic, and political changes that have taken place in northern Ontario since the 1950s.
Stored in the Bones
Safeguarding Indigenous Living Heritages
Price:
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781772840452
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Stored in the Bones enriches discussions of treaty rights, land claims, and environmental policy. Presenting an international framework that may be used to advance community interests in dealings with governments, the study offers a pathway for Indigenous peoples to document intangible cultural heritage.
Laughing Back at Empire
The Grassroots Activism of The Asianadian Magazine, 1978-1985
Price:
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781772840292
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Laughing Back at Empire is a groundbreaking examination of The Asianadian, one of Canada’s first anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic magazines. Wong’s work amplifies Asian Canadian voices that speak, shout, and laugh together at empire’s self-congratulatory and exclusionary narratives.
Letters with Smokie
Blindness and More-than-Human Relations
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781772840339
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Letters with Smokie captures an epistolic exchange between Dan Goodley and Rod Michalko, or rather, Rod Michalko's late guide dog, Smokie. A lively exploration of human-animal relationships and disability as disruption, disturbance, and art, the book offers a refreshing re-evaluation of cultural misunderstandings of disability.
Icelandic Heritage in North America
Price:
CA$34.99
ISBN: 9781772840216
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Icelandic Heritage in North America offers an in-depth examination of Icelandic immigrant identity, linguistic evolution, and legacy.
Legends of the Capilano
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781772840179
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Legends of the Capilano updates E. Pauline Johnson’s 1911 classic Legends of Vancouver, restoring Johnson’s intended title for the first time, and celebrating the storytelling abilities of Johnson’s Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) collaborators, Joe and Mary Capilano.
Establishing Shots
An Oral History of the Winnipeg Film Group
Price:
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9781772840131
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Both a deep dive into the life of an internationally renowned institution and an exploration of the growth of an experimental film movement, this collection of interviews produces a vibrant picture of the Winnipeg Film Group’s origins, successes, failures, and ongoing impact.
Reclaiming Anishinaabe Law
Kinamaadiwin Inaakonigewin and the Treaty Right to Education
Price:
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781772840254
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Baskatawang envisions a hopeful future for Indigenous nations where their traditional laws are formally recognized and affirmed by the governments of Canada. Baskatawang thereby details the efforts being made in Treaty #3 territory to revitalize and codify the Anishinaabe education law, kinamaadiwin inaakonigewin.
Reconstructions of Canadian Identity
Towards Diversity and Inclusion
CA$31.95
ISBN: 9781772840698
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
In 1971, Canada became the first nation in the world to officially declare its bilingual and multicultural policies. This incisive collection examines what has changed over the past fifty years, highlighting the lived experiences of minoritized Canadians and offering insights into the critical work that lies ahead.
The Honourable John Norquay
Indigenous Premier, Canadian Statesman
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9781772840582
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Once described as Louis Riel’s alter ego, Manitoba Premier John Norquay skirmished with John A. Macdonald and endured racist taunts while championing the interests of the Prairie West. This biography of an Indigenous political leader sheds welcome light on a neglected historical figure and a tumultuous time for Canada and Manitoba.
Bead Talk
Indigenous Knowledge and Aesthetics from the Flatlands
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781772840650
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Beading fosters traditional methods of teaching and learning and enables intergenerational transmissions of pattern and skill. These conversations, interviews, essays, and full-colour reproductions of artwork from expert and emerging artists, academics, and curators from the prairies invite us all into the beading circle.
Around the Kitchen Table
Métis Aunties' Scholarship
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781772840735
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Looking beyond the patriarchy to document and celebrate the scholarship of Métis women, Around the Kitchen Table brings together writing by new and established scholars, artists, storytellers, and community leaders that reflects the diversity of research created by Métis women as it is lived, conceptualized, and re-imagined.
mmm... Manitoba
The Stories Behind the Foods We Eat
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781772840414
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Mixing recipes, maps, archival records, biographies, and full-colour photographs with fascinating stories, mmm... Manitoba showcases the province’s diverse foodways and industries from on board the Manitoba Food History Truck.
Engraved on Our Nations
Indigenous Economic Tenacity
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781772840643
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
This first-of-its-kind collection shares stories not only of entrepreneurial excellence and persistence but of savvy leadership, innovation, and reciprocity, providing hope to Indigenous business leaders, youth, and elected officials working on the front lines to improve economic conditions and achieve “a good life” for their communities.
School of Racism
A Canadian History, 1830-1915
CA$31.95
ISBN: 9781772840537
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
This award-winning book names the ways in which Canada’s education system has supported ideologies of white supremacy—ideologies so deeply embedded that they still linger in school texts and programming today. School of Racism bridges English- and French-Canadian histories to deliver a better understanding of Canada’s identity.
The Art of Ectoplasm
Encounters with Winnipeg's Ghost Photographs
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9781772840377
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
The Art of Ectoplasm reflects on the history and legacy of T.G. and Lillian Hamilton's extraordinary collection of paranormal photographs, which have inspired and perplexed academics, historians, and artists since their creation a century ago, and offers a compelling look at a chapter in social history not entirely unlike our own.
Plundering the North
A History of Settler Colonialism, Corporate Welfare, and Food Insecurity
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781772840490
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Plundering the North provides fresh insight into Canada’s colonial project, laying bare the processes behind the chronic food insecurity experienced by northern Indigenous communities by charting the social, economic, and political changes that have taken place in northern Ontario since the 1950s.
Stored in the Bones
Safeguarding Indigenous Living Heritages
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781772840452
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Stored in the Bones enriches discussions of treaty rights, land claims, and environmental policy. Presenting an international framework that may be used to advance community interests in dealings with governments, the study offers a pathway for Indigenous peoples to document intangible cultural heritage.
Laughing Back at Empire
The Grassroots Activism of The Asianadian Magazine, 1978-1985
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781772840292
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Laughing Back at Empire is a groundbreaking examination of The Asianadian, one of Canada’s first anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic magazines. Wong’s work amplifies Asian Canadian voices that speak, shout, and laugh together at empire’s self-congratulatory and exclusionary narratives.
Letters with Smokie
Blindness and More-than-Human Relations
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781772840339
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Letters with Smokie captures an epistolic exchange between Dan Goodley and Rod Michalko, or rather, Rod Michalko's late guide dog, Smokie. A lively exploration of human-animal relationships and disability as disruption, disturbance, and art, the book offers a refreshing re-evaluation of cultural misunderstandings of disability.
Icelandic Heritage in North America
CA$34.99
ISBN: 9781772840216
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Icelandic Heritage in North America offers an in-depth examination of Icelandic immigrant identity, linguistic evolution, and legacy.
Legends of the Capilano
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781772840179
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Legends of the Capilano updates E. Pauline Johnson’s 1911 classic Legends of Vancouver, restoring Johnson’s intended title for the first time, and celebrating the storytelling abilities of Johnson’s Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) collaborators, Joe and Mary Capilano.
Establishing Shots
An Oral History of the Winnipeg Film Group
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9781772840131
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Reclaiming Anishinaabe Law
Kinamaadiwin Inaakonigewin and the Treaty Right to Education
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781772840254
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press