Colonized Classrooms Racism, Trauma and Resistance in Post-Secondary Education Courage playwrights

playwrights

First Nations resistance to it in British Columbia from the Douglas treaties in the early 1850s to the formal transfer of reserves to the Dominion in 1938

The most significant Aboriginal content article is written by Mary Jane Miller about the representation of residential schools in the CBC's television dramas

many of which are reproduced in this volume

This volume contains a helpful index

Colonized Classrooms Racism, Trauma and Resistance in Post-Secondary Education Courage playwrightsColonized Classrooms: Racism, Trauma and Resistance in Post Secondary Education by Sheila Cote Meek discusses how Aboriginal students confront narratives of colonial violence in the postsecondary classroom, while they are, at the same time, living and experiencing colonial violence on a daily basis. Basing her analysis on interviews with Aboriginal students, teachers and Elders, Cote Meek deftly illustrates how colonization and its violence are not a