TY - GEN T1 - Rethinking the Great White North : race, nature, and the historical geographies of whiteness in Canada A2 - Baldwin, Andrew, 1970- A2 - Cameron, Laura, 1966- A2 - Kobayashi, Audrey Lynn, 1951- LA - English PP - Vancouver PB - UBC Press YR - 2011 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1036271546 AB - "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."-- OP - 343 CN - F1035.A1 .R468 2011eb SN - 9780774820158 SN - 0774820152 SN - 9780774820134 SN - 0774820136 SN - 9780774820141 SN - 0774820144 SN - 9780774820165 SN - 0774820160 KW - Racism : Canada. KW - White people : Race identity : Canada. KW - Canada : Race relations. KW - Canada : Historical geography. KW - Canada, Northern : Historical geography. KW - Canada, Northern : Social conditions. KW - Indigenous peoples : Canada, Northern : Social conditions. KW - Personnes blanches : Identité ethnique : Canada. KW - Autochtones : Canada (Nord) : Conditions sociales. KW - Racisme : Canada. KW - Canada (Nord) : Conditions sociales. KW - Canada (Nord) : Géographie historique. KW - Canada : Géographie historique. KW - Canada : Relations raciales. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Discrimination & Race Relations. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Ethnic Studies : General. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Minority Studies. KW - Indigenous peoples : Social conditions KW - Historical geography KW - Race relations KW - Racism KW - Social conditions KW - White people : Race identity KW - Canada KW - Northern Canada KW - Weiße. KW - Soziale Situation. KW - Rassische Identität. KW - Ethnische Beziehung. KW - Kanada. KW - Electronic book. ER -