Below is a list of books that the Department of Gender Equality and Social Justice has recently acquired for the Nipissing Education Centre Library. These are excellent resources that we recommend.

The North Bay and District Multicultural Centre has a new anti-racism lending library. You can check out their holdings here. Resources are organized in the following categories: K-8; Grades 3+' Grades 5+; Grades 9+; and Resources for teachers, parents & organizations. Resources are available free of charge to teachers and community groups. Please email Don Curry at doncurry@nbdmc.ca for information on how to access the resources.

Backdoor Broadcasting records and makes available a range of academic talks primarily in the U.K. If you enjoy podcasts and cultural theory, you should check it out.

Listen to a podcast of Sherene Razack's talk "Fighting Sexism with Racism: Feminist Dilemmas in the War on Terror." Click
here.

Title: Then I was Black: South African Political Identities in Transition
Author: Courtney Jung
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year: 2000

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Title: Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC
Author: William Gumede
Publisher: Zed Books
Year: 2008

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Title: An Ordinary Country: issues in the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa
Author: Neville Alexander
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Year: 2003

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Title: We are the Poors: Community Struggles in Post-apartheid South Africa
Author: Ashwin Desai
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Year: 2002

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Title: No Future without Forgiveness
Author: Desmond Tutu
Publisher: Image
Year: 2000

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Title: Truth v. Justice: The Morality of Truth Commissions
Author: Rotberg and Thompson, Eds.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 2000

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Title: Negotiating Justice: A New Constitution for South Africa
Author: Mervyn Bennun, Ed.
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Year: 1995

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Title: First Person Queer: Who We Are (So Far)
ISBN:
1551522276
Author: Labonte, R. & Schimel, L.
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Year: 2007

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Title: The Red Indians: An episodic, informal collection of tales from the history of Aboriginal People's Struggles in Canada
ISBN: 9781894037259
Author: Peter Kulchyski
Publisher: Arbeiter Ring Publishing
Year: 2007

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Title: Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought
ISBN:
0978223349
Author: Massaquoi, N. & Wane, N. (Eds.)
Publisher: Inanna Publications
Year: 2007

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Title: Han Kut: Critical Art and Writing by Korean Canadian Women
ISBN:
0973670983
Author: Korean Canadian Women's Anthology Collective
Publisher: Inanna Publications
Year: 2007

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Title: Dissonant Disabilities: Women With Chronic Illness Theorize Their Lives
ISBN:
0889614644
Author: Driedger, D. & Owen, M. (Eds.)
Publisher: Women's Press
Year: 2008

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Title: Educators Discourses on Student Diversity in Canada
ISBN:
1551303469
Author: Gerin-Jolie, D. (Ed.)
Publisher: Women's Press. 
Year: 2008

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Title: Journeying forward: Dreaming First Nations' independence
ISBN:
1895686970
Author: Patricia, Monture-Angus,
Publisher: Fernwood Books Ltd
Year: 2003

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Title: Racing Research, Researching Race: Methodological Dilemmas in Critical Race Studies
ISBN:
0814782426
Author: Twine, F.W. & Warren, J.W. (Eds.) 
Publisher: New York University Press
Year: 2000

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Title: The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle
ISBN:
0822318407
Author: Fatimah Tobing Rony
Publisher: Duke University Press
Year: 1996

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Title: Daily Struggles: The Deepening Racialization and Feminization of Poverty in Canada
ISBN:
1551303396
Author: Wallis, M.A. & Kwok, S.M. (Eds.).
Publisher: Canadian Scholars Press
Year: 2008
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Title: Decolonizing methodologies : Research and indigenous peoples
ISBN:
9781856496247
Author:
Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Publisher:
Zed Press
Year: 1999

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Title: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
ISBN:
037571457X
Author: Marjane, Satrapi
Publisher: Pantheon
Year: 2004

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Title: Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
ISBN:
0375714669
Author: Marjane, Satrapi
Publisher: Pantheon
Year: 2005

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E-book: Who da man?: Black masculinities and sporting cultures
Author:
Abdel-Shehid, Gamal
Publisher:
Women's Press
Year: 2005

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Title: Research as resistance: Critical, Indigenous and anti-oppressive approaches
Authors: Brown, L. & Strega, S. (Eds.)
Publisher: Women's Press
Year: 2005

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Title: Violence against women: New Canadian perspectives
Author: McKenna, K.M.J. & Larkin, J. (Eds.)
Publisher: Inanna
Year: 2002

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Title: The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader
ISBN:
1555831907
Author: Nestle, Joan
Publisher: Hushion House
Year: 1992

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Title:
Strong women stories: Native vision and community survival
ISBN: 9781894549219
Author: Edited by Kim Anderson & Bonita Lawrence
Publisher: Sumach Press
Year: 2003

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Title: I am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism
ISBN:
9780889740594
Author: Lee Maracle
Publisher: Press Gang
Year: 1996

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Title: The Fourth World: An Indigenous Perspective on Feminism and Aboriginal Women's Activism
ISBN: 9781552660805
Author: Grace Josephine Mildred Wuttunee Ouellette
Publisher: Fernwood
Year: 2002

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Title: Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society
ISBN: 9781896357591
Author: Edited by Sherene Razack
Publisher: Between the Lines
Year: 2002

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Title: Places Through the Body
ISBN: 9780415179041
Author: Edited by Heidi Nast & Steve Pile
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1998

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Title: Reading Beyond Words: Contexts for Native History
ISBN: 9781551115436
Author: Edited by Jennifer S.H. Brown & Elizabeth Vibert
Publisher: Broadview Press
Year: 2003

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Title: Out of the background: Readings on Canadian Native History
ISBN: 9780772527073
Author: Edited by Ken S. Coates & Robin Fisher
Publisher: Irwin Publishers
Year: 1998

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Title: Boys, Girls and the Myths of Literacies and Learning
ISBN:
1551303442
Author: Hammet, R.F. & Sanford, K.J. (Eds.)
Publisher: Women's Press
Year: 2008

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Title: Ordinary Lifestyles
ISBN:
0335215513
Author: Bell, David
Publisher: Open University Press
Year: 2005

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Title: Afghan Women: Identity and Invasion
ISBN:
1842778560
Author: Rostami-Povey, Elaheh
Publisher: Zed Books
Year: 2007 

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Title: Against Empire: Feminisims, Racism and 'The' West
ISBN:
184277395X
Author: Zillah R. Eisenstein
Publisher: Zed Books
Year: 2004 

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Title: Taking Responsibility, Taking Direction: White Anti-Racism in Canada
ISBN: 9781894037242
Author: Wilmot, Sheila
Publisher: Arbeiter Ring
Year: 2005

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Title: Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline
ISBN:
0823226360
Author: Burrus, Virginia
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Year: 2006

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Title: Feminism In Popular Culture
ISBN:
1845202236
Author: Palgrave
Publisher: Berg Publishing
Year: 2006 

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Title: Radical feminism: A documentary reader
ISBN:
0814715559
Author: Barbara A. Crow
Publisher: New York University Press
Year: 2000

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Title: Stripping, Sex, And Popular Culture
ISBN:
1845201299
Author: Catherine M Roach
Publisher: Palgrave
Year: 2008

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Title: Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
ISBN:
1879960745
Author: Anzaldua, Gloria
Publisher: Aunt Lute Books
Year: 2007

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Title: Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
ISBN:
1842778609
Author: Laura Maria Agustin
Publisher: Zed Books
Year: 2007

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Title: Building Feminist Movements and Organizations: Global Perspectives
ISBN:
1842778501
Author: Lydia Alpizar Duran
Publisher: Zed Books
Year: 2007 

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Title: Third Wave Feminism And Television: Jane Puts It In A Box
ISBN:
1845112466
Author: Palgrave
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Year: 2007 

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Title: Sexual Decoys: Gender, Race and War in Imperial Democracy
ISBN:
184277817X
Author: Eisenstein, Zillah
Publisher: Zed Books
Year: 2007 

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Title: Making Space for Indigenous Feminism
ISBN:
1842779400
Author: Green, Joyce
Publisher: Zed Books
Year: 2007 

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Title: Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present
ISBN:
1842777459
Author: Nadje Sadig Al-Ali
Publisher: Zed Books
Year: 2007 

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Title: Trash Stories
ISBN:
0452283515
Author: Allison, Dorothy
Publisher: Plume
Year: 2002 

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Title: Cultural Citizenship: Cosmopolitanism, Consumerism, and Television in a Neoliberal Age
ISBN:
1592135617
Author: Miller, Toby
Publisher: Temple University Press
Year: 2006

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Title: Working Class Lesbian Life
ISBN:
0230008712
Author: Taylor, Yvette
Publisher: Palgrave
Year: 2007 

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Title: Asian Women: Interconnections
ISBN:
0889614571
Author: Hellwig, Tineke
Publisher: Women's Press (CA)
Year: 2005 

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Title: Close to Spider Man: Stories
ISBN:
1551520869
Author: Ivan E. Coyote
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Year: 2000 

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Title: Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, Second Edition
ISBN:
041595200X
Author: Adams, Maurianne
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2007 

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Title: WACK! : Art and the Feminist Revolution
ISBN:
0914357999
Author: Cornelia H. Butler
Publisher: The MIT Press
Year: 2007 

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Title: Exile and Pride : Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
ISBN:
0896086054
Author: Clare, Eli
Publisher: South End Press
Year: 1999 

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Title: Talking Visions : Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age
ISBN:
0262692619
Author: Shohat, Ella
Publisher: The MIT Press
Year: 2001 

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Title: Gender Outlaw: on Men, Women and the Rest of Us
ISBN:
0679757015
Author: Bornstein, Kate
Publisher: Vintage
Year: 1994 

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Title: Identity and Belonging: Rethinking Race and Ethnicity in Canadian Society
ISBN:
1551303124
Author: Sean P. Hier
Publisher: Canadian Scholars Press
Year: 2006 

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Title: Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions, and Imperialism
ISBN:
0889614520
Author: Namaste, Viviane
Publisher: Women's Press (CA)
Year: 2005 

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Title: All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America
ISBN:
0226872327
Author: Suzanna Danuta Walters
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Year: 2003 

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Title: An Introduction to Women's Studies : Gender in a Transnational World
ISBN:
0072887184
Author: Grewal, Inderpal
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Year: 2006 

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Title: Sexual Lives : A Reader on the Theories and Realities of Human Sexualities
ISBN:
007249364X
Author: Heasley, Robert
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Year: 2003 

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Title: Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women
ISBN:
0814740146
Author: T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Publisher: New York University Press
Year: 2007 

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Title: My Gender Workbook : How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely
ISBN:
0415916739
Author: Bornstein, Kate
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1998 

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From the
Strangers in Paradise graphic novel series, a favourite of Sal Renshaw:

Title: Strangers In Paradise Book 1: Collected Mini Series
ISBN:
1892597004
Author: Moore, Terry
Publisher: Abstract Studio
Year: 1995 

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Title: Strangers In Paradise Book 3: It's A Good Life
ISBN:
1892597020
Author: Moore, Terry
Publisher: Abstract Studio
Year: 1996

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Title: Strangers In Paradise Book 4: Love Me Tender
ISBN:
1892597039
Author: Moore, Terry
Publisher: Abstract Studio
Year: 1997 

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Title: Strangers In Paradise Pocket Book 5
ISBN:
1892597381
Author: Moore, Terry
Publisher: Abstract Studio
Year: 2005

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Title: Strangers In Paradise Book 6: High School
ISBN:
1892597071
Author: Moore, Terry
Publisher: Abstract Studio
Year: 1999

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Title: Strangers In Paradise Book 7: Sanctuary
ISBN:
1892597098
Author: Moore, Terry
Publisher: Abstract Studio
Year: 1999

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Title: Strangers In Paradise Book 8: My Other Life
ISBN:
189259711X
Author: Moore, Terry
Publisher: Abstract Studio
Year: 2000

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Title: Strangers In Paradise Book 9: Child Of Rage
ISBN:
1892597136
Author: Moore, Terry
Publisher: Abstract Studio
Year: 2001

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Title: Strangers In Paradise Book 10: Tropic Of Desire
ISBN:
1892597152
Author: Various
Publisher: Abstract Studio
Year: 2001 

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Title: Strangers In Paradise Book 11: Brave New World
ISBN:
1892597160
Author: Various
Publisher: Abstract Studio
Year: 2002

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Title: Strangers In Paradise Book 12: Heart In Hand
ISBN:
1892597209
Author: Various
Publisher: Abstract Studio
Year: 2003

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Title: Strangers In Paradise Book 13: Flower To Flame
ISBN:
1892597241
Author: Moore, Terry
Publisher: Abstract Studio
Year: 2003

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Title: Strangers In Paradise Book 14: David's Story
ISBN:
189259725X
Author: Moore, Terry
Publisher: Abstract Studio
Year: 2004

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Title: Strangers In Paradise Book 15: Tomorrow Now
ISBN:
1892597276
Author: Moore, Terry
Publisher: Abstract Studio
Year: 2004

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Title: Strangers In Paradise Book 16: Molly And Poo
ISBN:
1892597322
Author: Moore, Terry
Publisher: Abstract Studio
Year: 2005

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Title: Strangers In Paradise Book 17: Tattoo
ISBN:
1892597330
Author: Moore, Terry
Publisher: Abstract Studio
Year: 2005

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Title: Strangers In Paradise Book 18: Love & Lies
ISBN:
1892597349
Author: Moore, Terry
Publisher: Abstract Studio
Year: 2006 

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Title: Strangers In Paradise Book 19: Ever After
ISBN: 1892597357
Author: Moore, Terry
Publisher: Abstract Studio
Year: 2007 

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