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Author:   Daniel J. Keyes ,  Luis L.M. Aguiar
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9780774860048

ISBN 10:   0774860049
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   04 February 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction 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"

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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

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

“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

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Daniel Keyes is an associate professor in the department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, and was the founding coordinator of its Cultural Studies program. Along with a variety of book chapters, he has contributed articles to Theatre Research in Canada/Recherches théâtrales au Canada and Home Cultures: The Journal of Architecture, Design and Domestic Space. Luis L.M. Aguiar is an associate professor of sociology in the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. He is co-editor, with Andrew Herod, of The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy and, with Christopher J. Schneider, of Researching amongst the Elites: Challenges and Opportunities in Studying Up. Contributors: Luis L.M. Aguiar, Lawrence Berg, Natalie Chambers, Dr. Bill Cohen, Jon Corbett, Carl E. James, Daniel Keyes, Audrey Kobayashi, Sheila Lewis, Janet MacArthur, Donna M. Senese, Stephen Svenson, Delacey Tedesco.

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