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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1896357598 ISBN 13: 9781896357591

Publisher: Between the Lines, 2004

Synopsis

Race, Space, and the Law belongs to a growing field of exploration that spans critical geography, sociology, law, education, and critical race and feminist studies. Writers who share this terrain reject the idea that spaces, and the arrangement of bodies in them, emerge naturally over time. Instead, they look at how spaces are created and the role of law in shaping and supporting them. They expose hierarchies that emerge from, and in turn produce, oppressive spatial categories.The authors' unmapping takes us through drinking establishments, parks, slums, classrooms, urban spaces of prostitution, parliaments, the main streets of cities, mosques, and the U.S.-Canada and U.S.-Mexico borders. Each example demonstrates that "place," as a Manitoba Court of Appeal judge concluded after analyzing a section of the Indian Act, "becomes race."

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About the Author

Sherene Razack teaches in the Sociology and Equity Studies in Education program at the University of Toronto.

Edition details

• Publisher: Between the Lines
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1896357598
• ISBN 13: 9781896357591
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Razack Sherene H.