The Importance of Home Environment and Parental Encouragement in the Academic Achievement of African-Canadian Youth.

HM Codjoe - Canadian Journal of Education, 2007 - ERIC
This article focuses on the educational experiences of African-Canadian youth. Traditionally,
researchers have tended to emphasize the poor academic performance of Black students, or …

Seeing/being double: How African immigrants in Canada balance their ethno-racial and national identities

J Mensah, CJ Williams - African and Black Diaspora: An …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
With increased transnational ties to their homelands, immigrants' ontology now verges on
being double–and, consequently, on seeing double–most of the time. This double …

Black continental African identities in Canada: Exploring the intersections of identity formation and immigrant transnationalism

J Mensah - Journal of Canadian Studies, 2014 - utpjournals.press
Notwithstanding the role of immigrants' transnationalism and identity formation in shaping
their settlement and integration process, the burgeoning literature on Canadian immigration …

Ghanaian and Somali immigrants in Toronto's rental market: A comparative cultural perspective of housing issues and coping strategies

J Mensah, CJ Williams - Canadian Ethnic Studies, 2013 - muse.jhu.edu
Starting from the premise that" culture" has generally been overlooked in the analysis of
immigrant housing in Canada, this study examines the housing experiences of Ghanaian …

Muddling through together: educators navigating cisnormativity while working with trans and gender-nonconforming students

H Frohard-Dourlent - 2016 - open.library.ubc.ca
There has been increased attention on transgender and gender-nonconforming youth and
the obstacles that they face in schools, especially in terms of peer harassment and access to …

# StopAsianHate: A Content Analysis of Public Library Statements Released in Response to Anti-Asian Hate

A Chae - Public Library Quarterly, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
With the recent rise in anti-Asian hate incidents, many Asian American communities have
been living in a state of uncertainty and fear. In contrast to the harmful rhetoric that has …

Performing to understand: cultural wealth, precarity, and shelter-dwelling youth

K Gallagher, DJ Rodricks - Precariousness and the Performances …, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Collaborating with Project: Humanity, an acclaimed socially engaged theatre company, we
mobilized, over 16 weeks, an applied theatre methodology of drama workshops and …

Cultural sustainability of African Canadian heritage: Engaging students in learning, the past, the present and the future

M Finlayson - Improving Schools, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
The focus of this research is cultural sustainability of African Canadian heritage. Research
literature informs us that engaging youth in educational programmes at the local level is …

Religious transnationalism among Ghanaian immigrants in Toronto: a binary logistic regression analysis

J Mensah - The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Thanks to pioneering work within anthropology, students of international migration
acknowledge that most immigrants do not sever their ties with the homeland, but rather …

[图书][B] “Where Are You From?”: Growing Up African-Canadian in Vancouver

G Creese - 2019 - books.google.com
Metro Vancouver is a diverse city where half the residents identify as people of colour, but
only one percent of the population is racialized as Black. In this context, African-Canadians …