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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781905203321

Autore

Ward W. Peter

Titolo

White Canada forever [[electronic resource] ] : popular attitudes and public policy toward Orientals in British Columbia / / W. Peter Ward

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; London ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002

ISBN

1-282-86021-6

9786612860218

0-7735-6993-6

Edizione

[3rd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Collana

McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history ; ; 8

Disciplina

305.8950711

Soggetti

Chinese - British Columbia - Public opinion

Japanese - British Columbia - Public opinion

East Indians - British Columbia - Public opinion

Public opinion - British Columbia

British Columbia Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Preface to The Second Edition -- Preface to The Third Edition -- Sinophobia Ascendant -- JOHN CHINAMAN -- The Roots of Animosity -- Agitation and Restriction -- The Vancouver Riot -- East Indian Interlude -- The Komagata Maru Incident -- The Rise of Anti-Japanese Feeling -- Japs -- Exclusion -- Evacuation -- The Drive for a White B.C. -- Notes -- A Note on The Sources -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.