Exploring non-Aboriginal Attitudes towards Reconciliationin Canada: The Beginnings of Targeted Focus Group Research

to address some of the personal and cultural histories engaging Canada and the Middle East.Renisa Mawani's article, a reprint from the academic journal, BC Studies, takes a theoretical and historical approach to the context of race and contact on the west coast.Rhose Harris-Galia gives us a personal reflection from a Filipina perspective from Iqaluit.Sid Chow Tan takes a creative approach to personal history, presenting two pieces that tell the same story of early interactions between Aboriginal and Chinese people in British Columbia and how such hidden histories are possible to re-imagine.Ronald Lee lays out a detailed history of the Roma people whose persecutions bear remarkable resemblance to stories we hear about residential schools.An important reprint follows by Bonita Lawrence and Enakshi Dua, whose article on decolonizing the practices of anti-racism interrogates the foundations of progressive movements and how they must be complicated by a serious understanding of Indigenous issues.Robinder Kaur Sehdev revisions how we see the notions of treaty, suggesting that people of colour need to be aware of how they are affected through its discourses.Srimoyee Mitra demonstrates how Aboriginal and South Asian artists have been working and showing together recently to disrupt the notion of "Indian" as well as producing collaborative work that has resonance for contemporary art.Malissa Phung disrupts the assumption that the term "settler" is eschewed by people of colour and asks us to revisit this in all its attendant complications.And Henry Yu describes the recent collective work that has nurtured dialogues among First Nations, urban Aboriginal, and immigrant communities in Vancouver.The third section, Transformation, begins with Roy Miki, who uses creative practice and poetic moments to reflect upon the Japanese Canadian redress movement.Ravi de Costa and Tom Clark share their interview data about non-Aboriginal attitudes toward reconciliation in Canada.Rinaldo Walcott challenges the very premise of reconciliation and suggests a radical, alternative way of seeing this collective practice as but a beginning in a much more deeply inflected process.Mitch Miyagawa, in a reprint from The Walrus, shows through a personal narrative how we have become caught in a web of apology that often amounts to an empty gesture.Jen Budney writes about the art practice of Jayce Salloum, whose work with Aboriginal youth explores activism across local and global arenas.Rita Deverell looks at the more recent media history of race in Canada, following her own trajectory in terms of connections between people of colour and Indigenous people.George Elliott Clarke makes a case for the underinvestigated notion of shared histories and ancestries between Blacks and Aboriginal peoples in Nova Scotia.In a visual response, Diyan Achjadi shows how her creative practice accentuates the excessive and challengesx | Georges Erasmus the precepts of nationalism and militarism in how they construct our identities.And finally, Kirsten Emiko McAllister thinks through the ways we recognize, and are mis-recognized, as she explores a memoryscape of postwar British Columbia.

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