Rethinking the Great White North : race, nature, and the historical geographies of whiteness in Canada

Contributors: Baldwin, Andrew, 1970- ; Cameron, Laura, 1966- ; Kobayashi, Audrey Lynn, 1951-

2011, Book , x, 343 pages :

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Publication information:	Vancouver : UBC Press, c2011.
ISBN:	0774820136
ISBN:	9780774820134
Language:	English
Record ID:	2823134
Format:	Regular Print Book
Physical description:	x, 343 pages : illustrations, map, plan ; 24 cm.
Date acquired:	December 15, 2011
More creator details:	edited by Andrew Baldwin, Laura Cameron, and Audrey Kobayashi.
Contents note:	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.
Contents note:	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.
Contents note:	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.
Contents note:	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.
Contributor:	Baldwin, Andrew, 1970-
Contributor:	Cameron, Laura, 1966-
Contributor:	Kobayashi, Audrey Lynn, 1951-

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Branch	Format	Location	Status	Call Number
Don Mills	Book	Nonfiction	In Library	305.80097 RET
Lillian H. Smith	Book	Nonfiction	In Library	305.80097 RET
North York Central Library	Book	Due: 24/5/2022	On loan	305.80097 RET
Toronto Reference Library	Reference	Hum & Soc Sci 2nd Fl Reference Open Shelf	In Library	305.80097 R26