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