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HARP-356 |
| Title: |
Racializing the Canadian landscape: whiteness, uneven geographies and social justice |
| Source: |
Canadian Geographer , v.45(1) Spr’0150th Anniversary Issue pg 180-186 |
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| Year: |
2001 |
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| Keywords: |
Canada, economic, social, and cultural rights, human rights, immigration law, movement and residency, Quebec, racial discrimination, institutions, racism, ethnic minorities, Ontario, civil and political rights, Geography, immigration, visible minority, First Nations, minority rights, standard of living |
| Abstract: |
Whiteness in Canada is conveyed in a multitude of ways and we can only touch on a few.The institutionalization of whiteness is of course well known in terms of white Canada immigration policies (Calliste 1993-1994; Simmons 1998), the assimilation strategies used against First Nations peoples (Satzewich and Wotherspoon 1993) and in violent subjugation and/or segregation tactics (Walcott 1997, 85-87). Whiteness is also conveyed in a variety of seemingly less pernicious ways. Consider, for example, how the geographies of white Canada set an implicit (and frequently explicit) norm around which belonging is constructed. The residential geographies of Afro-Caribbean immigrants in Canadian cities have frequently been described in terms of `ghetto’ or `nearghetto’ imagery, but the same descriptors have never been attributed to the even more `segregated’, but entirely normalized, geographies of white Canadians living in the distant suburbs of Toronto and Montreal. |
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Keywords: Canada, civil and political rights, cultural rights, economic, ethnic minorities, First Nations, Geography, human rights, immigration, immigration law, institutions, minority rights, movement and residency, Ontario, Quebec, racial discrimination/racism, social, standard of living, visible minority
