Race, Space, and the Law : Unmapping a White Settler Society

by Razack, Sherene H.

• ISBN13: 9781896357591
• ISBN10: 1896357598
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Between the Lines

Summary

Race, Space, and the Law reveals that the spaces we occupy are neither natural, nor neutral.

Table of Contents

Introduction When Place Becomes Race	1	(20)
Sherene H. Razack
Rewriting Histories of the Land: Colonization and Indigenous Resistance in Eastern Canada	21	(26)
Bonita Lawrence
In Between and Out of Place: Mixed-Race Identity, Liquor, and the Law in British Columbia, 1850-1913	47	(24)
Renisa Mawani
Cartographies of Violence: Women, Memory, and the Subject(s) of the ``Internment''	71	(28)
Mona Oikawa
Keeping the Ivory Tower White: Discourses of Racial Domination	99	(22)
Carol Schick
Gendered Racial Violence and Spatialized Justice: The Murder of Pamela George	121	(36)
Sherene H. Razack
The Unspeakability of Racism: Mapping Law's Complicity in Manitoba's Racialized Spaces	157	(28)
Sheila Dawn Gill
Making Space for Mosques: Struggles for Urban Citizenship in Diasporic Toronto	185	(26)
Engin F. Isin
Myer Siemiatycki
The Space of Africville: Creating, Regulating, and Remembering the Urban ``Slum''	211	(22)
Jennifer J. Nelson
Delivering Subjects: Race, Space, and the Emergence of Legalized Midwifery in Ontario	233	(24)
Sheryl Nestel
Notes	257	(37)
Bibliography	294	(3)
Index	297	(12)
Contributors	309