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Discourses of denial : mediations of race, gender, and violence / Yasmin Jiwani.
LIBRA HN103.5 .J59 2006
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Van Pelt Library HN103.5 .J59 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jiwani, Yasmin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women immigrants--Canada--Social conditions.
- Women immigrants.
- Minority women--Canada--Social conditions.
- Minority women.
- Sex discrimination against women--Canada.
- Sex discrimination against women.
- Violence--Press coverage.
- Violence.
- Social conditions.
- Canada.
- Violence--Canada.
- Violence--Press coverage--Canada.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 255 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver : UBC Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- Canada prides itself on being a tolerant and inclusive culture, enriched by its official policies of multiculturalism, gender equality, and human rights. Lulled into complacency by these national maxims, the public is occasionally shocked by glaring acts of racist and sexist violence brought to their attention by the sensationalist media. But nobody pauses to consider the historical antecedents and root causes of these tragedies.
- Discourses of Denial uncovers how racism, sexism, and violence interweave deep within the foundations of our society. Using examples from the lives of immigrant girls and women of colour, Yasmin Jiwani considers the way accepted definitions of race and gender shape and influence public consciousness. With a perspective both academic and activist, she exposes how media representations of violence serve the status quo and fail to tell the whole story about racialized and gendered inequalities.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Laying the Terrain
- 1 Retraining Violence 3
- 2 Mapping Race in the Media 30
- Part 2 Sensationalized Cases
- 3 Erasing Race: The Story of Reena Virk 65
- 4 Culturalizing Violence and the Vernon "Massacre" 90
- Part 3 Voicing the Violence
- 5 Racialized Girls and Everyday Negotiations 111
- 6 Gendered Racism, Sexist Violence, and the Health Care System 145
- Part 4 Mediations of Terror
- 7 Gendering Terror Post-9/11 177.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [218]-244) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0774812370
- OCLC:
- 65119651
- Publisher Number:
- 9780774812375
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