Description
Book SynopsisBy drawing on Chinese sources and perspectives, this book offers an anti-racist history of the 1922-23 Chinese students’ strike in Victoria and Asian exclusion and racism in British Columbia.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Questioning the Existence of the World
1 The 1922-23 Students’ Strike
Part 1: Racism
2 Anti-Chinese Racism and the Colonial Project of British Columbia
3 Racializing ‘the Chinese,’ Racializing ‘the Canadian’
4 Schooling and the Organization of Racist State Formation
5 The Chinese Archipelago in Canada and the Consequences of Racialized Exclusion
Part 2: Anti-Racism
6 Resisting Racialization and the Invention of Chinese Canadians
7 Making Inclusions and Chinese Nationalist State Formation in Canada
8 Mitigating Racism through Chinese Nationalist Schooling
9 Anti-Essentialist Anti-Racisms and the Resistances of Odd Places
Conclusion: Anti-Racism, History, and the Significance of Chinese Canadians
Appendix
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
