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1 online resource (x, 343 pages) : illustrations, map, plan |
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polychrome |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-317) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Racism -- Canada.
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Racism. |
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Canada. |
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White people -- Race identity -- Canada.
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White people -- Race identity. |
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Canada -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
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Canada -- Historical geography.
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Historical geography. |
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Canada, Northern -- Historical geography.
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Northern Canada. |
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Canada, Northern -- Social conditions.
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Indigenous peoples -- Canada, Northern -- Social conditions.
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Indigenous peoples -- Canada, Northern -- Social conditions. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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Social conditions. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General. |
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Indigenous peoples. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
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Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions. |
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Racism. |
| Added Author |
Baldwin, Andrew, 1970-
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Cameron, Laura, 1966-
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Kobayashi, Audrey Lynn, 1951-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Clancy, Peter. Rethinking the Great White North : Race, Nature, and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness in Canada. Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2014 9780774820134 |
| ISBN |
9780774820158 (e-book) |
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0774820152 |
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9780774820134 (hardcover) |
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0774820136 |
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9780774820141 |
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0774820144 |
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9780774820165 |
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0774820160 |
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