Rethinking the Great White North

Most of the essays in this collection originated at a February 2008 workshop held in Ontario, Canada; some have been revised in light of workshop discussions. Contributors in geography and sociology examine the racism at the roots of images of the Canadian myth of the Great White North and Canadian national identity. Examining race as a social construction, they explore how whiteness in Canada works as the standard against which all other races are valued. They examine how the politics of nature and whiteness have shaped Canadian cities and address the implications of colonial injustice in Canada today. Some specific essay topics include Grey Owl and the whiteness of surrogacy, park planning in Toronto 1900-1985, and property regimes on Native reserves. One section of the book offers a pair of essays on the 2,000-mile journey of the Hudson's Bay Company explorer Samuel Hearne in 1771. Baldwin teaches human geography at Durham University. The book is distributed in the US by the University of Washington Press, and distributed in Canada by the University of Toronto Press. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Andrew Baldwin is a lecturer in human geography atDurham University. Laura Cameron is an associateprofessor of geography at Queen's University and Canada ResearchChair in Historical Geographies of Nature. AudreyKobayashi is a professor of geography and Queen'sResearch Chair at Queen's University.Contributors: Luis L.M. Aguiar, Kay Anderson,Stephen Bocking, Emilie Cameron, Jessica Dempsey, Brian Egan, BruceErickson, Kevin Gould, Roger Keil, Phillip Gordon Mackintosh, ClaireMajor, Tina I.L. Marten, Tyler McCreary, Richard Milligan, Sherene H.Razack, Catriona Sandilands, Juanita Sundberg, and Jocelyn Thorpe.