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Ateqah Khaki
(MENAFN- The Conversation)
This holiday season, we've put together a list of books that would make a great gift for the critical thinker on your shopping list. Each book on the list connects with a past episode of Don't Call Me Resilient , and is written or edited by a guest from that episode.
To accompany our book picks, we've put together a playlist of our episodes that correspond with each book.
So, bring the scholar and their ideas to life by listening to the episode alongside reading their book.
This 17-episode playlist captures the essence of the podcast's back catalogue, with episodes ranging from Season 1 to Season 7 on a range of topics that represent some of the most compelling issues of our times, from the climate crisis, to Gaza, to why the far-right is on the rise in the United States.
16 books for the critical thinker on your holiday gift list
Here's the full book list, alongside links to the episodes that relate to its topic.
Uncle: Race, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Loyalty by Cheryl Thompson (Coach House Books, February 2021)
Uncle: Race, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Loyalty by Cheryl Thompson, associate professor in performance at The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University
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When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance by Ellen Gabriel, with Sean Carleton, foreword by Pamela Palmater, afterword by Audra Simpson (Between the Lines, September 2024)
When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance by Ellen Gabriel, with Sean Carleton, foreword by Pamela Palmater, afterword by Audra Simpson
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In Your Face: Law, Justice, and Niqab-Wearing Women in Canada by Natasha Bakht (Delve Books, October 2020)
In Your Face: Law, Justice, and Niqab-Wearing Women in Canada by Natasha Bakht, professor of law at the University of Ottawa
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Refracted Economies: Diamond Mining and Social Reproduction in the North by Rebecca Jane Hall (University of Toronto Press, January 2022)
Refracted Economies: Diamond Mining and Social Reproduction in the North by Rebecca Jane Hall, associate professor, Department of Global Development Studies at Queeen's University
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Capitalism and Dispossession: Corporate Canada at Home and Abroad edited by David P. Thomas and Veldon Coburn (Fernwood Publishing, May 2022)
Capitalism and Dispossession: Corporate Canada at Home and Abroad edited by David P. Thomas and Veldon Coburn
Coburn, who is an assistant professor, Institute of Indigenous Research and Studies and Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, has been on the podcast a handful of times, including as a guest on our episodes about “pretendians” , unmarked graves found at residential schools , the Vatican's repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery , and as a guest host on our episode about Indigenous languages.
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Decolonizing Journalism: A Guide to Reporting in Indigenous Communities by Duncan McCue (Oxford University Press, September 2022)
Decolonizing Journalism: A Guide to Reporting in Indigenous Communities by Duncan McCue, associate professor at Carleton University's School of Journalism and Communication, and an award-winning CBC broadcaster and leading advocate for fostering the connection between journalism and Indigenous communities.
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Why We Can′t Have Nice Things: Social Media's Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property by Minh-Ha T. Pham (Duke University Press, August 2022)
Why We Can′t Have Nice Things: Social Media's Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property by Minh-Ha T. Pham, professor of media studies at Pratt University in Brooklyn, New York
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Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming by Ava Chin (Penguin Books, April 2024)
Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming by Ava Chin, journalist and professor of creative nonfiction and journalism at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City
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Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada edited by Rodney Diverlus, Sandy Hudson and Syrus Marcus Ware (University of Regina Press, February 2020)
Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada edited by by Rodney Diverlus, Sandy Hudson and Syrus Marcus Ware. Ware, who was a guest on Don't Call Me Resilient, is an artist, activist and assistant professor in the School of the Arts at McMaster University.
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Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity by Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes (University of Minnesota Press, April 2019)
Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity by Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes. HoSang, who was a guest on Don't Call Me Resilient, is an associate professor of ethnicity, race, and migration at Yale University.
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Beauty in a Box: Detangling the Roots of Canada's Black Beauty Culture by Cheryl Thompson (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, April 2019)
Beauty in a Box: Detangling the Roots of Canada's Black Beauty Culture by Cheryl Thompson, associate professor in Performance at The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Hungry Bengal: War, Famine and the End of Empire by Janam Mukherjee (Oxford University Press, September 2015) and Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life by James Daschuk (University of Regina Press, May 2013)
Hungry Bengal: War, Famine and the End of Empire by Janam Mukherjee, an associate professor of history at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life by James Daschuk, an assistant professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies at the University of Regina.
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From Blues to Beyoncé: A Century of Black Women's Generational Sonic Rhetorics by Alexis McGee (State University of New York Press, February 2024)
From Blues to Beyoncé: A Century of Black Women's Generational Sonic Rhetorics by Alexis McGee, an assistant professor of research in the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media at the University of British Columbia.
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Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada by Karrmen Crey (University of Minnesota Press, March 2024)
Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada by Karrmen Crey, an assistant professor of Aboriginal communication and media studies in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University.
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“Are You Calling Me a Racist?”: Why We Need to Stop Talking about Race and Start Making Real Antiracist Change by Sarita Srivastava, a professor of sociology and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at OCAD University in Toronto (and sister to host Vinita).
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Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch by Andrea Freeman (Metropolitan Books, July 2024)
Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch by Andrea Freeman, a professor of law at Southwestern Law School focusing on intersections between food policy and health.
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As we head into the New Year, you may also want to revisit last year's Don't Call Me Resilient music playlist - a collection of songs on the theme of resilience, reflection and revolution, inspired by the topics we cover, co-created by our production team and former podcast guests across seasons. These are songs that light us up, and help get us through tough moments.
We wish you a restful holiday and hope you get a moment to sit on your couch - or perhaps move about with your headphones on - while reading - or listening - to some inspiring and insightful words from these amazing scholars.
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