1 online resource (x, 249 pages) : illustrations, digital file
Contents
Part One Invidious Distinctions. 1 Employment Discrimination and State Complicity -- Part Two Discrimination Is Sabotage: Minority Accommodation, Protest, and Resistance. 2 Jews -- 3 Other Racialized Citizens -- 4 The Disenfranchised -- Part Three Ambivalent Allies: Anglo-Saxon Critics of Discrimination. 5 Mainstream Critics and the Burden of Inherited Ideas -- 6 Labour and the Left -- Part Four Anglo-Saxon Guardianship. 7 Anglo-Saxon Guardianship -- Conclusion
Summary
Juxtaposing a discussion of state policy with ideas of race and citizenship in Canadian civil society, Carmela K. Patrias shows how minority activists were able to bring national attention to racist employment discrimination during the Second World War and obtain official condemnation of such discrimination
