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My own sense of White identity developed during a decade-long sojourn in Nunavut, living and working in remote communities that are over 90 percent Inuit (Wihak, 2004a). When I returned to southern Canada, I discovered not only that I had changed, but that much had changed within the culture I had left so long before.
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Wihak, C. (2015). Development of Anti-Racist White Identity in Canadian Educational Counsellors. In: Lund, D.E., Carr, P.R. (eds) Revisiting The Great White North?. Transgressions, vol 105. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-869-5_13
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