Brewers pavilion – Restaurant. April 1967. Library and Archives Canada /Canadian Corporation for the 1967 World Exhibition / e011195069.
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Tag: racialization
Special thanks to Anne Dance, Tina Adcock, Stephanie Pettigrew, Lee Blanding, and especially Lynne Marks for their help with this piece.
Content Warning/Trigger Warning: antisemitism, racism, violence
In the wake of the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday, I wrote a Twitter essay sharing some thoughts and feelings. To my surprise, it gained a lot of attention, and I am overwhelmed by the resulting outpouring of love and support. However, since Twitter isn’t an ideal medium for a nuanced discussion of history, I was also debating putting together a blog post. A number of individuals expressed interest in more information about the racial identity of Jews and the history of antisemitism[1]. There seems to be overwhelming support for this idea, so here we go. While I’ll be repeating a lot of what I’ve said already, if you want to see the original Twitter thread, just go here.
I’m really excited to announce that NOTCHES: (re)marks on the history of sexuality has just published a new blog post written by yours truly! The post is based on my own research, so if you’ve been curious about what kind of work I do when I’m not writing here, check it out! Here’s a short preview:
In 1965, a Jewish couple living in Venezuela contacted the Jewish Child Welfare Bureau (JCWB) of Montreal and asked about the possibility of adopting a Jewish child. The JCWB declined their request and told them that due to the small number of Jewish children eligible for adoption, they only placed children with permanent residents of the city. They tried to entice the Venezuelan couple to adopt children that were harder to place: mixed-race children born to white Jewish mothers and Black Canadian fathers.
Montreal’s Jewish Child Welfare Bureau reflected the widely held view in Jewish communities that reproductive intra-faith sex was vital to shoring up racial-religious boundaries and to reproducing Jewish religion and ethnicity. Indeed, Jewish institutions such as the JCWB regulated reproduction and reproductive outcomes, including adoption, in order to construct and preserve Jewish identity in interracial and interethnic contexts.
Check out the rest here!
Because, let’s face it – who has time to catch up on all the journal articles published in Canadian history?
Welcome back to the Best New Articles series, where, each month, I post a list of my favourite new articles! Don’t forget to also check out my favourites from previous months, which you can access by clicking here.
This month I read articles from:
- Canadian Historical Review 97, no. 4 (December 2016)
- “Environmental Knowledge, Environmental Politics: Case Studies from Canada and Western Europe,” Special Issue of RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society, 4 (2016)
- Labour/Le Travail, no. 78 (Fall 2016)
- BC Studies, no. 191 (Autumn 2016)
- “Western Canada at War,” Special issue of Manitoba History, 82 (Fall 2016)
- Canadian Military History 25, no. 2 (2016)
- “None Is Too Many and Beyond: New Research on Canada and the Jews During the 1930-1940s, ” Special Issue of Canadian Jewish Studies 24 (2016)
- Journal of Canadian Studies 50, no. 1 (Winter 2016)
- American Review of Canadian Studies 46, no. 3 (2016)
- International Journal of Canadian Studies 53 (Spring 2016)
Here are my favourites, in no particular order:
Because, let’s face it – who has time to catch up on all the journal articles published in Canadian history?
Welcome back to the Best New Articles series, where each month, I post a list of my favourite new articles! Don’t forget to also check out my favourites from July, which you can access by clicking here.
This month I read articles from:
- Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 26, no. 1 (2015) [not yet available online]
- Journal of Canadian Studies, 49, no. 3 (Fall 2015)
- BC Studies 190 – Special Issue: Histories of Settler Colonialism (Summer 2016)
- Journal of Critical Race Inquiry 3, no. 1 – Special issue: Contested Histories of Racialization and the Legacies of Sir John A. Macdonald (2016)
- Three individual articles from the latest issues of The Looking Glass, Education Matters, and Past Imperfect.