Research Catalog

Title

Race, space, and the law : unmapping a white settler society / edited by Sherene H. Razack.

Publication

Toronto : Between the Lines, 2002.

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Additional Authors

Razack, Sherene

Description

ix, 310 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.

Summary

"Race, Space, and the Law belongs to a growing field of exploration that spans critical geography, sociology, law, education, and critical race and feminist studies. Writers who share this terrain reject the idea that spaces, and the arrangement of bodies in them, emerge naturally over time. Instead, they look at how spaces are created and the role of law in shaping and supporting them. They expose hierarchies that emerge from, and in turn produce, oppressive spatial categories. The authors' unmapping takes us through drinking establishments, parks, slums, classrooms, urban spaces of prostitution, parliaments, the main streets of cities, mosques, and the U.S.-Canada and U.S.-Mexico borders. Each example demonstrates that "place," as a Manitoba Court of Appeal judge concluded after analyzing a section of the Indian Act, "becomes race.""--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Race relations > Canada > History
• Spatial behavior > Canada
• Relations raciales > Canada > Histoire
• Comportement spatial > Canada
• Canada > Colonization
• Canada > Colonisation

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-296) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

When place becomes race / Sherene H. Razack -- Rewriting histories of the land: Colonization and indigenous resistance in Easter Canada / Bonita Lawrence -- In Between and out of place: mixed-race identity, liquor and the law in British Columbia, 1850-1913 / Renisa Mawani -- Cartographies of violence: women memory and the subject(s) of the internment / Mona Oikawa -- Keeping the ivory tower white: discourses of racial domination / Carol Schick -- Gendered racial violence and spatialized justice: the murder of Pamela George / Sherene H Razack -- The unspeakability of racism : Mapping law's complicity in Manitoba's racialized spaces / Sheila Dawn Gill -- Making space for Mosques: struggles for urban citizenship in diasporic Toronto / Engin F. Isin and Myer Siemiatycki -- The space of Africville: creating regulating and remembering the urban slum / Jennifer J. Nelson -- Delivering subjects: race space and the emergence of legalized midwifery in Ontario / Sheryl Nestel

ISBN

1896357598 (pbk.) :

OCLC

• 48686609
• SCSB-10723262

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library