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"Canada's claim to a distinct national identity is bound to the idea of a Great White North. Images of snow, wilderness, and emptiness in our most cherished narratives seem innocent, yet this path-breaking volume shows they contain the seeds of contemporary racism. Rethinking the Great White North moves the idea of whiteness to the centre of debates about Canadian history, geography, and identity. Informed by critical race theory and the insight that racism is geographical as well as historical and cultural, scholars from multiple disciplines explore how notions of race, whiteness, and nature helped shape the nation, from travel writing to treaty making, from scientific research to park planning, and within small towns, cities, and tourist centres. Four themes -- identity and knowledge, city spaces, Arctic journeys, and Native land -- serve as entry points to trace how Canada's identity as a white country was built on historical geographies of nature. This insightful collection not only reassesses Canadian history and identity, it offers a vocabulary for thinking about whiteness, nature, and nation as Canada enters into new debates about the North and the meaning of the nation."--Pub. desc.
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Whites, Indigenous peoples, canada, Racism, Canada, social conditions, Canada, historical geography, Canada, race relations, Social conditions, Historical geography, Race identity, Native peoples, Race relations, Conditions sociales, Géographie historique, Blancs, Identité ethnique, Autochtones, Relations raciales, RacismeEdition | Availability |
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Rethinking the Great White North: Race, Nature, and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness in Canada
2011, University of British Columbia Press
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0774820160 9780774820165
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Rethinking the Great White North: Race, Nature, and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness in Canada
2011, University of British Columbia Press
in English
0774820152 9780774820158
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Rethinking the Great White North: Race, Nature, and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness in Canada
2011, University of British Columbia Press
in English
0774820136 9780774820134
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Rethinking the Great White North: Race, Nature, and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness in Canada
2011, University of British Columbia Press
in English
1299588018 9781299588011
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