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I was born White, and grew up in Winnipeg in the 1950s in a suburb dominated by White Anglo-Saxon protestants (WASPs). As a young idealistic baby boomer in the mid-1960s, my desire to help the disadvantaged led me to study Sociology at the University of Manitoba.
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Northcott, H.C. (2015). Going Native. In: Lund, D.E., Carr, P.R. (eds) Revisiting The Great White North?. Transgressions, vol 105. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-869-5_8
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