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Title Claiming space : racialization in Canadian cities / Cheryl Teelucksingh, editor
Published Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfred Laurier University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 202 pages)
Contents Toward claiming space : theorizing racialized spaces in Canadian cities / Cheryl Teelucksingh -- New Yellow Peril : the rhetorical construction of Asian Canadian identity and cultural anxiety in Richmond / Glenn Deer -- Carving out a space of one's own : the Sephardic Kehila Centre and the Toronto Jewish community / Kelly Amanda Train -- Mapping Greektown : identity and the making of "place" in suburban Calgary / Anastasia N. Panagakos -- There is no alibi for being (Black)? : race, dialogic space, and the politics of trialectic identity / Awad Ibrahim -- Co-motion in the diasporic city : transformations in Toronto's public culture / Jenny Burman -- Black men in frocks : sexing race in a gay ghetto (Toronto) / Rinaldo Walcott -- "Salt-water city" : the representation of Vancouver in Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Café and Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony / Domenic Beneventi -- Gambling on the edge : the moral geography of a First Nations' casino in "Las Vegas North" / Cathy van Ingen -- Living with the traumatic : social pathology and the racialization of Canadian spaces / Leeno Luke Karumanchery
Summary Claiming Space: Racialization in Canadian Cities critically examines the various ways in which Canadian cities continue to be racialized despite objective evidence of racial diversity and the dominant ideology of multiculturalism. Contributors consider how spatial conditions in Canadian cities are simultaneously part of, and influenced by, racial domination and racial resistance. Reflecting on the ways in which race is systematically hidden within the workings of Canadian cities, the book also explores the ways in which racialized people attempt to claim space. These essays cover a diverse
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Sociology, Urban -- Canada
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Race relations
Sociology, Urban
SUBJECT Canada -- Race relations
Subject Canada
Form Electronic book
Author Teelucksingh, Cheryl, 1965-
ISBN 1423785606
9781423785606
1554581370
9781554581375
1280465700
9781280465703