Join us for the launch of
Daily Struggles: The Deepening Racialization and Feminization of Poverty in Canada
edited by Maria A.Wallis and Siu-ming Kwok

FRIDAY JUNE 20, 7pm
toronto women’s bookstore
73 harbord st
all welcome!
we regret our bathroom is not wheelchair accessible

Daily Struggles offers a unique, critical perspective on poverty by highlighting gender and race analyses simultaneously. Unlike previously published Canadian books in this field, this book connects human rights, political economy perspectives, and citizenship issues to other areas of social exclusion, such as class, sexuality, and disability.

Masterfully edited and presented, Daily Struggles opens with theoretical frameworks that examine the racialization processes at work in Canada, with special attention to the consequences relevant to gender. The social construction of “race” and its subsequent devaluation and marginalization has several implications for racialized individuals, especially racialized women. This much needed text examines other ways in which racialized people are socially constructed to experience their lives as second-class Canadian citizens and concludes by presenting additional consequences of the racialized and gendered nature of poverty—consequences that have a fundamental impact on quality of life.

About the editors:

MARIA A. WALLIS holds a Ph.D. in Sociology, with specialties in anti-racism and social inequality. She has taught at King’s University College at The University of Western Ontario, McMaster University, Wilfrid Laurier University and York University.

Siu-ming Kwok is Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at King’s University College at The University of Western Ontario.

co-sponsored by Canadian Scholars Press