Racial Necrogeographies and the Making of White Space: The Life and Death of Nineteenth-Century Indigenous and Black Burial Places in Rural Ontario
In this article, I unearth the dehumanizing racial violence of the destruction of Saugeen Anishinaabe and Black community burial places in Grey County, Ontario by settler whites. I trace how the fate of particular sites might represent a wider pattern of necrogeographical violence on the part of whi...
| Published in: | American Indian Culture and Research Journal |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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eScholarship, University of California
2019
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| Online Access: | https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6xt3k1vj https://escholarship.org/content/qt6xt3k1vj/qt6xt3k1vj.pdf https://doi.org/10.17953/aicrj.43.2.felepchuk |
| Summary: | In this article, I unearth the dehumanizing racial violence of the destruction of Saugeen Anishinaabe and Black community burial places in Grey County, Ontario by settler whites. I trace how the fate of particular sites might represent a wider pattern of necrogeographical violence on the part of whites. I also explore the importance of such sites to Indigenous and Black communities, their reclamation by communities, and white backlash to such actions. In Grey County, the making of a white landscape has gone hand in hand with the destruction of the hallowed places of Indigenous and Black communities. |
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