Author Footnotes with Ronald L. Mize
Consuming Mexican Labor discusses how two prior forced deportation campaigns were preceded by active and vigorous recruitment of Mexican labor to the United States to meet labor demands…
June 28, 2012
Miscellaneous
Durban, Dread, and Promise
“Can we save this wonderful, green and blue, mountain high and ocean deep planet from further human abuse? Will it save itself without us?”
May 22, 2012
Final Shades of Kalamazoo
Though the weather was gray and cold in Kalamazoo, the booth was hot yesterday…
May 13, 2012
Thinking About International Women’s Day
This International Women’s Day, I invite you to seek out the conversation. To get you started, a few links to recent news items follow below.
March 7, 2012
The Form and Function of a Textbook
In the first of a short series of blog postings, author Rob Beamish discusses his motivations for publishing an introductory sociology textbook without all of the “bells and whistles” normally aimed at first-year university students.
January 20, 2012
Target practice for your inner Cupid: Valentine’s Day titles from UTP
We at UTP couldn’t resist spreading the love for these Valentine’s Day-appropriate titles.
February 11, 2011
Moving forward, looking back: J.L. Granatstein’s Canada’s Army, Second Edition
Granatstein looks back on the War in Afghanistan in Canada’s Army, 2nd Edition.
January 26, 2011
It’ll Soon Be a Jungle Out There!
The Canadian Institute of Forestry has launched a tree planting drive with their program Forests without Borders recently that is looking to change the face of the earth. Partnering with several other groups such as World Clean Air Forest Initiative, CIF is offering tree planting kits with an extra little something; for every tree that is planted in Canada and registered online, an international partner will plant a sister tree in a country such as Ghana or Zambia. John Clement, a CIF member and professor at Sault College’s environment and outdoor studies department thinks the kit program is “tree-mendous…The goal is to grow clean air.”
November 24, 2009