Virtual Launch
February 18, 2-4 PM PT
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UBC Okanagan's Department of English and Cultural Studies is please to host the launch of a new book edited by Daniel Keyes and Luis Aguiar. White Space, Race, Privilege, and Cultural Economies of the Okanagan Valley, published by UBC Press, was released in the fall of 2021.

Much attention has been paid to the changing culture and construction of the Canadian metropolis, but how are the workings of whiteness manifested in the rural-urban spaces?  White Space analyzes the dominance of whiteness in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia to expose how this racial notion continues to sustain forms of settler privilege.

The launch, hosted by Sakiru Adebayo, will include contributors to the book Daniel Keyes (UBCO), Janet MacArthur (UBCO), Stephen Svenson (Wilfred Laurier University), Delacey Tedesco (Exeter University), Lawrence Berg (UBCO).