White Canada Forever

Author : W. Peter Ward
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0773508244

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White Canada Forever by W. Peter Ward Pdf

Between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries white British Columbians directed recurring outbursts of prejudice by 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.

Author : William Peter Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : OCLC:1151773468

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White Canada Forever by William Peter Ward Pdf

Author : Peter Ward
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773569935

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White Canada Forever by Peter Ward Pdf

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.

Author : Kay J. Anderson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1991-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773562974

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Vancouver's Chinatown by Kay J. Anderson Pdf

Anderson charts the construction of Chinatown in the minds and streets of the white community of Vancouver over a hundred year period. She shows that Chinatown -- from the negative stereotyping of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to its current status as an "ethnic neighbourhood" -- has been stamped by changing European ideologies of race and the hegemonic policies those ideas have shaped. The very existence of the district is the result of a regime of cultural domination that continues to exist today. Anderson clearly rejects the concept of "race" as a means of distinguishing between groups of human beings. She points out that because the implicit acceptance of public beliefs about race affects the types of questions asked by researchers, the issue of the ontological status of race is as critical for commentators on society as it is for scientists studying human variation. Anderson applies this fresh approach toward the concept of race to a critical examination of popular, media, and academic treatments of the Chinatown in Vancouver.

Author : Andrew Baldwin,Laura Cameron,Audrey Kobayashi
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774820165

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Rethinking the Great White North by Andrew Baldwin,Laura Cameron,Audrey Kobayashi Pdf

Canadian national identity is bound to the idea of a Great White North. Images of snow, wilderness, and emptiness seem innocent, yet this path-breaking volume shows they contain the seeds of contemporary racism. Rethinking the Great White North moves the idea of whiteness to the centre of debates about Canadian history, geography, and identity. Informed by critical race theory and the insight that racism is geographical as well as historical and cultural, the contributors trace how notions of race, whiteness, and nature helped shape Canada’s identity as a white country in travel writing and treaty making; scientific research and park planning; and within small towns, cities, and tourist centres. These nuanced explorations of diverse historical geographies of nature not only revisit the past: they offer a new vocabulary for contemporary debates on Canada’s role in the North and the nature of multiculturalism.

Author : Peter G. White,Adam Daifallah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Canada Politics and government 1993-
ISBN : 0968937403

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Gritlock by Peter G. White,Adam Daifallah Pdf

Author : Janine Stingel
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773568198

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Social Discredit by Janine Stingel Pdf

By examining Social Credit's anti-Semitic propaganda and the reaction of the Canadian Jewish Congress, Stingel details their mutual antagonism and explores why Congress was unable to stop Social Credit's blatant defamation. She argues that Congress's ineffective response was part of a broader problem in which passivity and a belief in "quiet diplomacy" undermined many of its efforts to combat intolerance. Stingel shows that both Social Credit and Congress changed considerably in the post-war period, as Social Credit abandoned its anti-Semitic trappings and Congress gradually adopted an assertive and pugnacious public relations philosophy that made it a champion of human rights in Canada. Social Discredit offers a fresh perspective on both the Social Credit movement and the Canadian Jewish Congress, substantively revising Social Credit historiography and providing a valuable addition to Canadian Jewish studies.

Author : Veronica Jane Strong-Boag
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774806923

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Painting the Maple by Veronica Jane Strong-Boag Pdf

The essays in this collection draw on feminist, post-colonial and cultural theory to analyze the different roles played by constructions of race and gender in shaping Canadian identity as represented in various aspects of its culture, history, politics and health care.

Author : J. A. Laponce,William Safran
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0714646938

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Ethnicity and Citizenship by J. A. Laponce,William Safran Pdf

The essays in this volume analyze both the components of citizenship in Canada and the diversity of attitudes concerning it from the interdisciplinary perspectives of political science, sociology, history, public law, and psychology. A number of related themes are addressed: the reciprocal nature of the relationship between legal (political) and societal (ethnic) citizenship; the conflict of identities for members of Anglophone and Francophone, native and immigrant, and European and 'indigenous' subcultures; the rivalry between federal and provincial orientations; and the processes of identity change resulting from shared experiences and interactions. In addition, the book contains an examination of past and present policies on immigration, of current arguments regarding the evolution of the Canadian constitutional system, and of the continuing search for new definitions of citizenship.

Author : J.R. Miller
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487516895

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Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens by J.R. Miller Pdf

Highly acclaimed when the first edition appeared in 1989, "Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens" is the first comprehensive account of Indian-white relations throughout Canada's history. J.R. Miller charts the deterioration of the relationship from the initial, mutually beneficial contact in the fur trade to the current impasse in which Indians are resisting displacement and marginalization. This new edition is the result of substantial revision to incorporate current scholarship and bring the text up to date. It includes new material on the North, and reflects changes brought about by the Oka crisis, the sovereignty issue, and the various court decisions of the 1990s. It also includes new material on residential schools, treaty making, and land claims.

Author : Franca Iacovetta,Paula Draper,Robert Ventresca
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802074820

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A Nation of Immigrants by Franca Iacovetta,Paula Draper,Robert Ventresca Pdf

This collection of essays examines immigrants and racial-ethnic relations in Canada from the mid-nineteenth century to the post-1945 era.

Author : Sean Mills,Scott Rutherford
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442606876

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Canada and the Third World by Sean Mills,Scott Rutherford Pdf

Canada and the Third World provides a long overdue introduction to Canada's historical relationship with the Third World.

Author : Peter Ward
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780228000624

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The Clean Body by Peter Ward Pdf

How often did our ancestors bathe? How often did they wash their clothes and change them? What did they understand cleanliness to be? Why have our hygienic habits changed so dramatically over time? In short, how have we come to be so clean? The Clean Body explores one of the most fundamental and pervasive cultural changes in Western history since the seventeenth century: the personal hygiene revolution. In the age of Louis XIV bathing was rare and hygiene was mainly a matter of wearing clean underclothes. By the late twentieth century frequent – often daily – bathing had become the norm and wearing freshly laundered clothing the general practice. Cleanliness, once simply a requirement for good health, became an essential element of beauty. Beneath this transformation lay a sea change in understandings, motives, ideologies, technologies, and practices, all of which shaped popular habits over time. Peter Ward explains that what began as an urban bourgeois phenomenon in the later eighteenth century became a universal condition by the end of the twentieth, touching young and old, rich and poor, city dwellers and country residents alike. Based on a wealth of sources in English, French, German, and Italian, The Clean Body surveys the great hygienic transformation that took place across Europe and North America over the course of four centuries.

Author : Danielle Daniel
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443463355

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Forever Birchwood by Danielle Daniel Pdf

The middle-grade debut of star picture-book author and illustrator Danielle Daniel Adventurous, trail-blazing Wolf lives in a northern mining town and spends her days exploring the mountains and wilderness with her three best friends Penny, Ann and Brandi. The girls’ secret refuge is their tree-house hideaway, Birchwood, Wolf’s favourite place on earth. When her beloved grandmother tells her that she is the great-granddaughter of a tree talker, Wolf knows that she is destined to protect the birch trees and wildlife that surround her. But Wolf’s mother doesn’t understand this connection at all. Not only is she reluctant to engage with their family’s Indigenous roots, she seems suspiciously on the wrong side of the environmental protection efforts in their hometown. To make matters worse, she’s just started dating an annoying new boyfriend named Roger, whose motives—and construction company—seem equally suspect. As summer arrives, so do bigger problems. Wolf and her friends discover orange plastic bands wrapped around the trees near their cherished hangout spot, and their once stable friendship seems on the verge of unravelling. Birchwood has given them so much—can they even stay together long enough to save this special place? With gorgeous yet understated language, Danielle Daniel beautifully captures an urgent and aching time in a young person’s life. To read this astonishing middle-grade debut is to have your heart broken and then tenderly mended.

Author : Constance Backhouse
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442690851

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Colour-Coded by Constance Backhouse Pdf

Historically Canadians have considered themselves to be more or less free of racial prejudice. Although this conception has been challenged in recent years, it has not been completely dispelled. In Colour-Coded, Constance Backhouse illustrates the tenacious hold that white supremacy had on our legal system in the first half of this century, and underscores the damaging legacy of inequality that continues today. Backhouse presents detailed narratives of six court cases, each giving evidence of blatant racism created and enforced through law. The cases focus on Aboriginal, Inuit, Chinese-Canadian, and African-Canadian individuals, taking us from the criminal prosecution of traditional Aboriginal dance to the trial of members of the 'Ku Klux Klan of Kanada.' From thousands of possibilities, Backhouse has selected studies that constitute central moments in the legal history of race in Canada. Her selection also considers a wide range of legal forums, including administrative rulings by municipal councils, criminal trials before police magistrates, and criminal and civil cases heard by the highest courts in the provinces and by the Supreme Court of Canada. The extensive and detailed documentation presented here leaves no doubt that the Canadian legal system played a dominant role in creating and preserving racial discrimination. A central message of this book is that racism is deeply embedded in Canadian history despite Canada's reputation as a raceless society. Winner of the Joseph Brant Award, presented by the Ontario Historical Society