Resources – The Intersections

Race, religion, gender and communications and media policy

Here are some resources regarding issues at the intersection of race, religion, gender and communications and media policy.

Canadian Government Resources

Op-Eds

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Race, Racism, and Empire: Reflections on Canada
The Representation of Women and Racialized Minorities as Expert Sources On-Air in Canadian Public Affairs Television
Race, Religion, and the Social Integration of New Immigrant Minorities in Canada
No Exit: Racial Profiling and Canada’s War against Terrorism
No-Fly Lists, National Security and Race: The Experiences of Canadian Muslims
A New-Look for Muslim Women in the Canadian Media: CBC’s Little Mosque on the Prairie
Racism and the North American Media Following 11 September: The Canadian Setting
Under the Prism of Suspicion: Minority Voices in Canada Post-September 11
Intersecting violence: Representations of Somali youth in the Canadian press
Barbarians in/of the Land: Representations of Muslim Youth in the Canadian Press
Ethnic media as alternative media for South Asians in Metro Vancouver, Canada: Creating knowledge, engagement, civic and political awareness
“Abnormal mental health” and a blameless state—Canadian media representations of Indigenous suicide
‘War talk’ engendering terror: race, gender and representation in Canadian print media
Race and Incarceration: The Representation and Characteristics of Black People in Provincial Correctional Facilities in Ontario, Canada
The Kids Are All White: Examining Race and Representation in News Media Coverage of Opioid Overdose Deaths in Canada
Race and the Media: A Retrospective and Prospective Gaze
Missing and Murdered Women: Reproducing Marginality in News Discourse
Hinduism in the News: The Shifting Role of Religion and the Media in Canadian Public Life
The Canadian Islamophobia Industry: Islamophobia’s Ecosystem in the Great White North
Framing Muslims in the “War on Terror”: Representations of Ideological Violence by Muslim versus Non-Muslim Perpetrators in Canadian National News Media
Discourses of Dehumanization: Enemy Construction and Canadian Media Complicity in the Framing of the War on Terror
Visible/Invisible: Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere
The framing of Sikhs in Canadian media in the 1980s: The power of the media and the conflicts between religion in the public sphere and an assumed national identity
Canada: the standard bearer of multiculturalism in the world? An analysis of the Canadian public debate on multiculturalism (2010–2020)
Unravelling Discourses on COVID-19, South Asians and Punjabi Canadians
Intersectional Microaggressions and Social Support for LGBTQ Persons of Color: A Systematic Review of the Canadian-Based Empirical Literature
“Watchful citizens” and digital vigilantism: a case study of the far right in Quebec
“Canadian Experience” discourse and anti-racialism in a “post-racial” society
“Brown girls can’t be gay”: Racism experienced by queer South Asian women in the Toronto LGBTQ community
Triple Jeopardy: Complexities of Racism, Sexism, and Ageism on the Experiences of Mental Health Stigma Among Young Canadian Black Women of Caribbean Descent
Racist call-outs and cancel culture on Twitter: The limitations of the platform’s ability to define issues of social justice
Contextualizing the Crisis: The Framing of Syrian Refugees in Canadian Print Media
Media Portrayals of Hashtag Activism: A Framing Analysis of Canada’s #Idlenomore Movement
Representing minorities: Canadian media and minority identities
Racial stereotyping of indigenous people in the Canadian media: A comparative analysis of two water pollution incidents
How American Media Affects Perceived Racism in Canada
Framing Immigration in the Canadian and British News Media
For Black Women In Media, A “Dream Job” Is A Myth
Encounters Between Violence and Media| Remembering January 29: The Québec City Mosque Shootings and the Struggle for Recognition
Migrants, Minorities and the Media: Information, Representations and Participation in the Public Sphere
“Since When Did We Have 100,000 Tamils?” Media Representations of Race Thinking, Spatiality, and the 2009 Tamil Diaspora Protests
Cultural Schemas for Racial Identity in Canadian Television Advertising
Queue-jumpers, terrorists, breeders: representations of Tamil migrants in Canadian popular media
Race, Apology, and the Conservative Ethnic Media Strategy
Algorithmic Regulation in Media and Cultural Policy: A Framework to Evaluate Barriers to Accountability
Objectivity Is a Privilege Afforded to White Journalists