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Racial bias in criminal sentencing: Historical evidence from Chinese railway workers in British Columbia

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.
Abstract Do discriminatory attitudes held in the public influence public institutions? We study this question within the context of the criminal justice system of historical British Columbia (BC). During the late 1870s and early 1880s, an influx of Chinese immigrant workers employed in the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) was the catalyst
Kris Inwood, Ian Keay, Blair Long
wiley   +1 more source

Postgraduate Prospectus 2006-07 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Outlines degree and course offerings on Latin American Studies, United States Studies and Comparative American Studies in the Institute for the Study of the ...

core  

Barriers and breakthroughs: engaging in socially just ways towards issues of indigeneity, identity, and whiteness in teacher education

open access: yesWhiteness and Education, 2019
Within Australia, The Australian Professional Standard for Teachers’ Standard 1.4 dictates that teachers should have an understanding and awareness of the histories, cultures and languages of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Tasha Riley, Sue Monk, Harry VanIssum
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Changing Patterns of Gender Representation in Canada's Technology Sector and the Care Economy: Two Differing Tales

open access: yesCanadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gender segregation is a persistent form of labour market inequality, though patterns differ across time and economic sectors. Focusing on the care economy and the technology sector, we examine longitudinal trends in gender distributions for educational credentials and occupational participation.
Neil Guppy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Native American Tribes and dam removal: Restoring the Ottaway, Penobscot, and Elwha rivers

open access: yesWater Alternatives, 2022
Since the early 1900s, more than 1700 dams have been removed from rivers in the United States. Native American Tribes have played a key role in many significant removals, bringing cultural, economic, and legal resources to bear on the process.
Coleen A. Fox   +3 more
doaj  

Indigeneity

open access: yesCurrent Anthropology, 2009
The term indigenous, long used to distinguish between those who are "native" and their "others" in specific locales, has also become a term for a geocultural category, presupposing a world collectivity of "indigenous peoples" in contrast to their various "others." Many observers have noted that the stimuli for internationalization of the indigenous ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Time in Early Modern Islam: Calendar, Ceremony, and Chronology in the Safavid, Mughal and Ottoman Empires [Book Review] [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article reviews the book 'Time in Early Modern Islam: Calendar, Ceremony, and Chronology in the Safavid', Mughal and Ottoman Empires, by Stephen P ...
Drury, Abdullah
core   +2 more sources

Care Providers of Indigenous Children and Youth in the Child Welfare System: A Scoping Review

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Indigenous children continue to be significantly over‐represented in child welfare systems in Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. This scoping review represents a subset of a larger review, the objective of which was to consolidate the extant literature on Indigenous child welfare.
Amanda R. Ervin   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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