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		First Nations -- Canada, Northern -- Social conditions.
		First Nations -- Canada, Northern.
		Whites -- Race identity -- Canada.
		Racism -- Canada.
		Canada, Northern -- Social conditions.
		Canada, Northern -- Historical geography.
		Canada -- Historical geography.
		Canada -- Race relations.

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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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UBC Press, 2011.

305.800971 R438

First Nations -- Canada, Northern -- Social conditions.

First Nations -- Canada, Northern.

Whites -- Race identity -- Canada.

Racism -- Canada.

Canada, Northern -- Social conditions.

Canada, Northern -- Historical geography.

Canada -- Historical geography.

Canada -- Race relations.

9780774820141 (pbk.)

343 p. ; ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-317) and index.

"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 -- "Occult relation between man and the vegetable": transcendentalism, immigrants, and park planning in Toronto, c. 1900/85 / 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 -- 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 -- 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.

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 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.

Baldwin, Andrew 1970-

Cameron, Laura, 1966-

Kobayashi, Audrey, 1951-

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