WHITENESS AND NARRATIVES OF A RACIALIZED CANADA-US BORDER AT NIAGARA.

This paper analyses accounts of a racialized Canada/US border gathered from young white Canadian border residents. I argue that these accounts clearly support scholarly and activist reports of the "racial profiling" of non-whites. 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 "racial profiling," I suggest that they ultimately offer limited challenge to racially differentiated border im/mobilities that reproduce racial inequality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]