Whiteness and Narratives of a Racialized Canada/US Border at Niagara

Authors

  • Jane Helleiner Brock University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29173/cjs10016

Keywords:

Canada/US border, Whiteness, Mobilities

Abstract

Abstract Interviews with young White Canadian borderlanders in Niagara reveal their awareness of a racialized local Canada/US border. The analysis focuses on how they describe and trouble but ultimately legitimize, racially stratified cross border mobilities at this site. It is argued that the narratives elide racialized privilege and offer limited challenge to racialized penalty at this major node of the North American and global economy.

Author Biography

Jane Helleiner, Brock University

Full Professor Department of Sociology

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Published

2012-03-21

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