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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807060003321

Autore

Stanley Timothy James

Titolo

Contesting white supremacy : school segregation, anti-racism, and the making of Chinese Canadians / / Timothy J. Stanley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : UBC Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-05435-3

9786613054357

0-7748-1933-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 326 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

971.1/004951

Soggetti

White supremacy movements

Social movements

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The 1922-23 Students' Strike -- Racism. Anti-Chinese racism and the colonial project of British Columbia ; Racializing 'the Chinese', racializing 'the Canadian' ; Schooling and the organization of racist state formation ; The Chinese archipelago in Canada and the consequences of racialized exclusion -- Anti-racism. Resisting racialization and the invention of Chinese Canadians ; Making inclusions and Chinese nationalist state formation in Canada ; Mitigating racism through Chinese nationalist schooling ; Anti-essentialist anti-racisms and the resistances of odd places -- Anti-racism, history, and the significance of Chinese Canadians.

Sommario/riassunto

Contesting White Supremacy offers an alternative reading of the history of racism in British Columbia, one based on Chinese sources and perspectives. Employing an innovative theory of racism and anti-racism to explain the strike and document its antecedents, Timothy Stanley demonstrates that by the 1920s migrants from China and their BC-born children actively resisted policy makers' efforts to organize white supremacy into the very texture of life. The education system in particular served as an arena where white supremacy confronted Chinese nationalist schooling and where parents and students rejected the idea of being either Chinese or Canadian and instead invented a



new category - Chinese Canadian - to define their identity."--pub. desc.