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Race, Space and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society. (Reviews/Comptes Rendus).(Book Review)-(book review)

Publication: Labour/Le Travail
Publication Date: 22-MAR-03
Format: Online - approximately 1401 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Sherene H. Razack, ed., Race, Space and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2002)

IT IS HARD TO THINK of space as a concrete entity. Meta theories related to space and peoples' occupation and use of space have often left me with the feeling that we were...

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...not talking about issues related to location as if people mattered. In Race, Space and the Law, race, space, and law are intertwined, sometimes with chilling results.

The best example comes from Razack herself who contributes a chapter that examines racialized violence and spatialized justice. Razack makes a convincing argument that there is a privilege in place. Take for example, the luxury of Steven Kummerfield and Alex Ternowetsky. University students in Regina, they celebrated the end of a school year by "slumming" -- visiting dark hollows, the underside of bridges, and an area of town frequented and inhabited by Aboriginal people. Kummerfield and Ternowetsky are afforded the luxury of locational choice and mobility. In the continuing dispossession of Aboriginal people, re-location to the inner city is perceived as the result of a lack of choice of location and not about mobility.

The two non-Aboriginal men assaulted and beat Pamela George, who died from those injuries. Pamela George,...

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