{"product_id":"white-space-race-privilege-and-cultural-economies-of-the-okanagan-valley-hardback-9780774860048","title":"White Space; Race, Privilege, and Cultural Economies of the Okanagan Valley (Hardback) 9780774860048","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWhite Space\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRace, Privilege, and Cultural Economies of the Okanagan Valley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDaniel J. Keyes (Edited by), Luis L.M. Aguiar (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780774860048\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 December 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e284 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.64 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuch attention has been paid to race in the Canadian metropolis, but how are the workings of whiteness manifested in the rural-urban? \u003cem\u003eWhite Space\u003c\/em\u003e analyzes the dominance of whiteness in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia to expose how this racial notion sustains forms of settler privilege today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors to this perceptive collection critique the cultural economics of whiteness and white supremacy. The first half documents the historical construction of whiteness: how settlers and their ancestors have sought to exalt pioneers by erasing non-whites from the region's heritage while Indigenous people resist this white-out. The second half explores the persistence of whiteness as an organizing principle in the neoliberal deindustrialized present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhite Space\u003c\/em\u003e moves beyond appraising whiteness as if it were a solid and unshakable category. Instead it offers a powerful demonstration of how the concept can be re-envisioned, resisted, and reshaped in contexts of economic change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Historical Erasures and Re-inscriptions of White Fantasies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 Emerging from the Whiteout: Colonization, Assimilation, Historical Erasure, and Okanagan-Syilx Resistance and Transforming Praxis in the Okanagan Valley \/ \u003cem\u003eBill Cohen and Natalie A. Chambers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2 Niggertoe Mountain: Colouring Hinterland Fantasies \/ \u003cem\u003eDaniel Keyes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3 Nkwala: Colouring Hinterland Fantasies with the Indigenous \/ \u003cem\u003eDaniel Keyes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4 The Rhetoric of Absence: Susan Allison's Racial Melancholia \/ \u003cem\u003eJanet MacArthur\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5 Camp Road \/ \u003cem\u003eAudrey Kobayashi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: Revealing and Challenging Contemporary White Fantasies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6 Mapping White Consumer Culture: Kelowna's Tourist Maps 1983–1999 \/ \u003cem\u003eJon Corbett and Donna M. Senese\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7 Fantasies of Encore Whiteness in the Central Okanagan Valley \/ \u003cem\u003eLuis L.M. Aguiar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8 White Supremacy, Surveillance, and Urban Aboriginal Women in the Kelowna, BC, Housing Market \/ \u003cem\u003eSheila Lewis and Lawrence D. Berg\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9 \"The Jamaicans are here and working\": Race and Community Responses \/ \u003cem\u003eCarl E. James\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10 Okanagan in Print: Exalting Typographical Heimlich Fantasies of Entrepreneurial Whiteness \/ \u003cem\u003eDaniel Keyes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11 Emplacing and Displacing Whiteness in Kelowna: Aporetic Urbanization and the Limits of Modern Politics \/ \u003cem\u003eDelacey Tedesco\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12 The Imaginary of Redneck Okanagan Whiteness: A Sketch \/ \u003cem\u003eStephen Svenson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors; Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"UBC Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52531072172312,"sku":"9780774860048","price":56.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/white-space-race-privilege-and-cultural-economies-of-the-okanagan-valley-hardback-9780774860048","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}