Rethinking the Great White North : race, nature, and the historical geographies of whiteness in Canada / edited by Andrew Baldwin, Laura Cameron, and Audrey Kobayashi.

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Other Authors: Kobayashi, Audrey Lynn, 1951-, Cameron, Laura, 1966-, Baldwin, Andrew, 1970-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Identity and knowledge. "A phantasy in white in a world that is dead" : grey owl and the whiteness of surrogacy / Bruce Erickson
  • Indigenous knowledge and the history of science, race, and colonial authority in northern Canada / Stephen Bocking
  • Cap Rouge remembered? Whiteness, scenery, and memory in Cape Breton Highlands National Park / Catriona Sandilands.
  • Pt. 2. City spaces. The "occult relation between man and the vegetable" : transcendentalism, immigrants, and park planning in Toronto, c. 1900 / Phillip Gordon Mackintosh
  • SARS and service work : infectious disease and racialization in Toronto / Claire Major and Roger Keil
  • Shimmering white Kelowna and the examination of painless white privilege in the hinterland of British Columbia / Luis L.M. Aguiar and Tina I.L. Marten.
  • Pt. 3. Arctic journeys. Inscription, innocence, and invisibility : early contributions to the discursive formation of the north in Samuel Hearne's A journey to the northern ocean / Richard Milligan and Tyler McCreary
  • Copper Stories : imaginative geographies and material orderings of the central Canadian arctic / Emilie Cameron.
  • Pt. 4. Native land. Temagami's tangled wild : the making of race, nature, and nation in early-twentieth-century Ontario / Jocelyn Thorpe
  • Resolving "the Indian land question"? Racial rule and reconciliation in British Columbia / Brian Egan
  • Changing land tenure, defining subjects : neo-liberalism and property regimes on Native reserves / Jessica Dempsey, Kevin Gould, and Juanita Sundberg.