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Class, Caste: Cultural labels?
Volume 26 Issue 1
Addressing Skill Gaps in Canada
Canada supports one of the most expensive education systems in the world; yet four out of 10 graduates from […]
MASSACRES DANS LES VILLAGES
“À leurs yeux, nous n’étions pas humains.” Le début d’un procès historique: le général Efraín Rios Montt accusé de génocide […]

Eight pieces of art
Dominique Normand provides us with eight pieces of art and four answers to questions posed by Serai’s Nilambri Ghai. Your […]
Kastevæsenet: The caste system II – Observations from 1895
This document, Kastevæsenet, was written in Danish by Johanne Nielsen, who was born in November 1873, in Fiolstraede, a district […]
Class and Cultural labels
“Il est comme un chauffeur de taxi!” Which means he could be Black, Haitian, Iranian, incomprehensible, immigrant, shifty, or that […]
Two White Men Discussing Reasonable Accommodation (or Dear Charles)
There have been several exemplary articles over the last couple of months challenging and exposing a euro and ethno-centric point […]
Class, Caste, and Cultural Labels
This edition of Montreal Serai is about “Class, Caste, and Cultural Labels.” Once again class has become a central social […]

GHUNGHROO
I woke from nightmare into the vast bed. The magnificent coral bed carved into figures of men and dogs, with […]
Digital Crossroads
A good friend recently reminded me of how I behaved at the Cancun bus station in 1991 when we travelled […]
Another Home
Phula did not look tall enough for a twelve-year-old, but that was the age she went by. It had been […]
The Second Caste
It is generally accepted that the term caste as applied in India was introduced by the Portuguese when they established […]
Three poems
Accordion I passed a man playing accordion on a park bench filling the thick afternoon sunshine with strands that made me homesick […]

The Montreal Music Underground
It’s Tuesday night in the back room of le Cagibi, a café in the Mile End neighborhood of Montreal […]
Who Am I?
In the early 20th century, an enlightened Indian sage named Ramana Maharshi lived at the base of a mountain thought […]
Urban space – Who gets what… and why?
The city, with its street grids, the space given over to cars, to stores or housing or public spaces seems, […]
The Killing of Osama bin Laden: A Kaleidoscope View through the Lens of Bob Dylan
I love the smell of napalm in the morning. –spoken by actor Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now, 1979 […]
The Crisis and Class
I. Inequality and Breakdown In the spring of 2013 we are still living in an economic crisis of global […]
Two New Poems
ROMA In the last heat, little puffs of fog lift off the marsh like white birds, and although she is […]
White Law, Native Norms, and Greed in Canadian History and Literature
12 March 2013 In 1876, a number of Saskatchewan Cree and Chipewyan chiefs, faced with starvation due to a decrease […]
Election Day
This song has been kicking around in my notebook for a while now. I figured what better time to record […]
Review of A Room on the Mountain
Anne Cimon’s new novella, A Room on the Mountain, (Gemma Books, Greenfield Park, Québec), is a story of grief, following […]
Tai’s Rules
Jennie was seven when she first met Tai, her father’s sister. Sadashiv, her father, had been longing to return to […]