Points of View
British Columbia
Roy Miki
Roy Miki, professor in the English Department at Simon Fraser University, writes about the need to develop critical approaches for studying the representation of Asian Canadian histories and identity formations.
Prairies
Lori Wilkinson
Lori Wilkinson, sociologist specializing in immigration and settlement, shares her thoughts about the ethnocultural diversity in the Canadian prairie region.
Ontario
William Kymlicka
Will Kymlicka, professor of political philosophy, says that questions of immigrant integration and accommodation are as old as Canada itself.
Ontario
Lawrence Hill
Novelist and journalist Lawrence Hill discovers that the thread of social alienation permeates discussions of the experiences of Blacks in Ontario, be they descendents of long-time Canadians, people of Caribbean descent or recently arrived Somalians.
Quebec
Jack Jedwab
In this essay, the Executive Director of the Association for Canadian Studies, Jack Jedwab, writes about the importance of family, neighbourhood and community when adjusting to a new life in Canada.
Maritimes
Sylvia Hamilton
Filmmaker Sylvia D. Hamilton explores the ongoing search by Black youth for reflections of themselves in their school and society. She also reflects on the lessons about discrimination contained in her mother’s stories.
Resources
Consult lists of selected written resources and Web sites related to the subjects of this section. Or find a link to the NFB’s online catalogue for references to more films on similar subjects. If you are interested in resources in French, please consult the French version of this Web site.