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

324 Pages·2002·9.077 MB·English

by  Sherene H. Razack (editor)

edited by SHERENE H. RAZACK
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Main entry under title:
Race, space, and the law : unmapping a white settler society
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN I-896357-59-8
r. Segregation-Canada-History. 2. Race discrimination-Canada-History.
3. Canada-Colonization. I. Razack, Sherene
FCI04.R313 2002 c2002-9oonr-o
FI035.AIR33 2002
Cover and text design by David Vereschagin, Quadrat Communications
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This book is dedicated to the memory of all those who have
endured the loss of loved ones through racial violence, and who
have suffered through their loss a second time when the law and
society refused to name it so.
Permissions
The publisher gratefully acknowledges the Canadian Journal of Law and Society for
granting permission to reproduce revised versions of chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, B, and 9,
which originally appeared in volume 15,2 (2000) of the Journal.
WNHNTS
~ Introduction
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When Place Becomes Race
Sherene H. Razack
Chapter 1
21 .
~ Rewriting Histories of the Land: Colonization and
Indigenous Resistance in Eastern Canada
Bonita Lawrence
47 Chapter 2
In Between and Out of Place: Mixed-Race Identity,
Liquor, and the Law in British Columbia, 1850-1913
Renisa Mawani
71 Chapter 3
Cartographies of Violence: Women, Memory, and
the Subject(s) of the "Internment"
Mona Oikawa
99 Chapter 4
Keeping the Ivory Tower White: Discourses of
Racial Domination
Carol Schick
Chapter 5
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Gendered Racial Violence and Spatialized Justice:
The Murder of Pamela George
Sherene H. Razack
157 Chapter 6
The Unspeakability of Racism: Mapping Law's
Complicity in Manitoba's Racialized Spaces
Sheila Dawn Gill
viii
r Bs Chapter 7
Making Space for Mosques: Struggles for Urban
Citizenship in Diasporic Toronto
Engin F. Is in and Myer Siemiatycki
2u Chapter 8
- The Space of Africville: Creating, Regulating, and
Remembering the Urban "Slum"
Jennifer J. Nelson
233 Chapter 9
Delivering Subjects: Race, Space, and the
Emergence of Legalized Midwifery in Ontario
Sheryl Nestel
257 Notes
294 Bibliography
297 Index
309 Contributors