White Canada Forever, 8: Popular Attitudes and Public Policy Toward Orientals in British Columbia

by Peter M. Ward

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0773508244

ISBN13:9780773508248

Release Date:November 1990

Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press

Length:228 Pages

Related Subjects

Discrimination & Racism Minority Studies Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Race Relations Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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