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2017-05-11

Schlesinger, Ari, Edwards, W. Keith, Grinter, Rebecca E.

Abstract: Understanding users becomes increasingly complicated when we grapple with various overlapping attributes of an individual’s identity. In this paper we introduce intersectionality as a framework for engaging with the complexity of users’—and authors’—identities, and situating these...

2013-10-29

Stanger-Ross, Jordan

SSHRC Awarded Invited PG (stage 2) 2014: We propose to engage Canadians in a discussion of race, place, and the law. Canada continues to bear the legacy of a past in which racism held sway. The importance of race in shaping the very spaces we inhabit is epitomized by the events of World War...

Spring 2018

Frost, Helen Dorothy

Since the election of a democratic government in 1994, South African print culture has been marked by a proliferation of rape narratives as sexual violence increasingly came to be understood as a social crisis. Although the majority of rapes in South Africa are intraracial and intra-communal,...

2023-05-29

Ellis-Odjurhe, Ejofon

This thesis investigates the influence of social network size and social network “racial” diversity on regional accent processing. 122 participants listened to recorded English speech produced by 24 native English speakers. These 24 native speakers consisted of six different English speech...

Fall 2015

Zeng, Minhao

This dissertation identifies a strand of contemporary Asian American theatrical works which dramatize what I call “racial cosmopolitanism,” a mode of cosmopolitanism emerging out of the lived experiences of racialized “difference.” Conjoining the historically divergent fields of cosmopolitan...

Spring 2014

Chell, Wanda L.J.

Employing a racialization and race regimes framework as an analytical lens, this research explored how the state-provision of immigrant support services offered by IS-NGOs (immigrant service non-governmental organizations) through various programs, such as English Language Learning/Parenting and...

2024-11-12

Nasirudeen, Ismail A.

Existing studies on race and policing in Canada have shown that Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) experience discrimination and excessive police use of force. This paper examines the relationship between experience of discrimination and level of trust in police by narrowing its focus...

09/28/2021

Oriola, Temitope B

SSHRC IG awarded 2022: The proposed research is concerned with the evolution of the School Resource Officer (SRO) program in Canada. It focuses on the experiences of persons with nexus to the SRO program. These include (1) students, (2) parents, (3) school administrators and board trustees, (4)...

2018-10-01

Smith, Malinda

The Diversity Gap in 2018, Where are the Equity Groups and the University of Alberta?

Fall 2018

Stephen A. Cruikshank

The "mulata affect" may be understood as the repetitive process and movement of power and affect qualified in the mulata image over time. Through a lens of affect theory this study seeks to analyse how the mulata image in Cuba has historically been affected by, and likewise affected, cultural...