{"product_id":"colonial-proximities-crossracial-encounters-and-juridical-truths-in-british-columbia-18711921-9780774816342","title":"Colonial Proximities  Crossracial Encounters and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColonial Proximities traces the encounters between aboriginal peoples, mixed-race populations, Chinese migrants, and Europeans in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British Columbia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book offers fascinating new perspectives on the roots of Canadian racism. Moving beyond traditional narratives of Aboriginal-European contact and Chinese-European relations, Renisa Mawani probes the unsettled landscape of cross-racial encounters between \"indians\" and \"Chinese\" in BC history. She deftly captures the frenzied anxieties that whites harboured over ungovernable mixed-race activities, and brilliantly dissects the renewed state racisms that were born of such encounters. - Constance Backhouse, University of Ottawa\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: Heterogeneity and Interraciality in British Columbia’s Colonial “Contact Zone”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 The Racial Impurities of Global Capitalism: The Politics of Labour, Interraciality, and Lawlessness in the Salmon Canneries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 (White) Slavery, Colonial Knowledges, and the Rise of State Racisms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 National Formations and Racial Selves: Chinese Traffickers and Aboriginal Victims in British Columbia's Illicit Liquor Trade\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 “The Most Disreputable Characters”: Mixed-Bloods, Internal Enemies, and Imperial Futures\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Colonial Pasts, Entangled Presents, and Promising Futures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MN - University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49938021187927,"sku":"9780774816342","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774816342.jpg?v=1738718388","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/colonial-proximities-crossracial-encounters-and-juridical-truths-in-british-columbia-18711921-9780774816342","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}