%0 Journal Article
%T Whiteness and Narratives of a Racialized Canada/US Border at Niagara
%A Jane Helleiner
%J The Canadian Journal of Sociology
%D 2012
%I University of Alberta
%X This paper analyses accounts of a racialized Canada/US border gatheredfrom young white Canadian border residents. I argue that these accounts clearly support scholarly and activist reports of the ˇ°racial profilingˇ± of nonwhites. While some white interviewees criticized the border practices that they described, some also suggested that nonwhites were appropriately targeted for greater surveillance as part of a binational security project. Meanwhile there was little acknowledgement of the significant benefits of whiteness in the racialized border context. While these white narratives contradict official denials of ˇ°racial profiling,ˇ± I suggest that they ultimately offer limited challenge to racially differentiated border im/mobilities that reproduce racial inequality.
%K border
%K Canada
%K US
%K whiteness
%K racism
%K mobilities
%U http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/10016/14106