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

Published Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 326 pages) : illustrations Contents 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 Summary "In 1922-23, Chinese students in Victoria, British Columbia, went on strike to protest a school board's attempt to impose racial segregation. Their resistance was unexpected at the time, and it runs against the grain of mainstream accounts of Asian exclusion in Canada, which tend to ignore the agency of the excluded 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-311) and index Notes Print version record Subject Chinese -- British Columbia -- Social conditions Chinese -- Education -- British Columbia -- History Student strikes -- British Columbia -- Australia -- Victoria -- History Racism -- British Columbia Chinese -- Canada -- British Columbia -- Social conditions Student strikes -- British Columbia -- Victoria -- History HISTORY -- Canada -- General. Chinese -- Education Chinese -- Social conditions Race relations Racism Student strikes SUBJECT British Columbia -- Race relations Subject British Columbia British Columbia -- Victoria Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2011453259 ISBN 9780774819312 0774819316 9780774819336 0774819332 1283054353 9781283054355

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