Open AccessWhiteness and Narratives of a Racialized Canada/US Border at Niagara
Author(s) -
Jane Helleiner
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
canadian journal of sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.357
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1710-1123
pISSN - 0318-6431
DOI - 10.29173/cjs10016
Subject(s) - privilege (computing) , narrative , sociology , white privilege , white (mutation) , gender studies , race (biology) , political science , law , philosophy , linguistics , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
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.