White Canada Forever : Popular Attitudes and Public Policy Toward Orientals in British Columbia
Third edition
by
Peter Ward
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History
ISBN-10
0773523227
ISBN-13
9780773523227
Edition
Third edition
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint
McGill-Queen's University Press
Country of Manufacture
CA
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 8th, 2002
Print length
236 Pages
Weight
374 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 22.90 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
CanadaHistory of the AmericasModern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 190020th century history: c 1900 to c 2000Social & cultural historySocial discrimination and social justiceEthnic studies / EthnicitySocial discrimination & inequalityEthnic studiesHistoryHistory of the AmericasSocial and cultural history
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Between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries white British Columbians directed recurring outbursts of prejudice against the Chinese, Japanese, and East Indians who lived among them. In White Canada Forever Peter Ward reveals the full extent and periodic virulence of west coast racism.
Ward draws upon a rich record of events and opinion in the provincial press, manuscript collections, and successive federal enquiries and royal commissions on Asian immigration. He locates the origins of west coast racism in the frustrated vision of a white British Columbia and an unshakeable belief in the unassimilability of the Asian immigrant. Canadian attitudes were dominated by a series of interlocking, hostile stereotypes derived from western perceptions of Asia and modified by the encounter between whites and Asians on the north Pacific coast. Public pressure on local, provincial, and federal governments led to discriminatory policies in the field of immigration and employment, and culminated in the forced relocation of west coast Japanese residents during World War II.
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