Description
Book SynopsisWhite Space offers a compelling analysis of how whiteness sustains settler privilege and maintains social inequity in the BC interior.
Trade Review“With its focus on regional specificity, White Space makes a distinctive contribution to the critical literature on white privilege and spatial imaginaries of race in Canada.” -- Jennifer Henderson, Carleton University
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part 1: Historical Erasures and Re-inscriptions of White Fantasies
1 Emerging from the Whiteout: Colonization, Assimilation, Historical Erasure, and Okanagan-Syilx Resistance and Transforming Praxis in the Okanagan Valley / Bill Cohen and Natalie A. Chambers
2 Niggertoe Mountain: Colouring Hinterland Fantasies / Daniel Keyes
3 Nkwala: Colouring Hinterland Fantasies with the Indigenous / Daniel Keyes
4 The Rhetoric of Absence: Susan Allison’s Racial Melancholia / Janet MacArthur
5 Camp Road / Audrey Kobayashi
Part 2: Revealing and Challenging Contemporary White Fantasies
6 Mapping White Consumer Culture: Kelowna’s Tourist Maps 1983–1999 / Jon Corbett and Donna M. Senese
7 Fantasies of Encore Whiteness in the Central Okanagan Valley / Luis L.M. Aguiar
8 White Supremacy, Surveillance, and Urban Aboriginal Women in the Kelowna, BC, Housing Market / Sheila Lewis and Lawrence D. Berg
9 "The Jamaicans are here and working": Race and Community Responses / Carl E. James
10 Okanagan in Print: Exalting Typographical Heimlich Fantasies of Entrepreneurial Whiteness / Daniel Keyes
11 Emplacing and Displacing Whiteness in Kelowna: Aporetic Urbanization and the Limits of Modern Politics / Delacey Tedesco
12 The Imaginary of Redneck Okanagan Whiteness: A Sketch / Stephen Svenson
Contributors; Index
