The history of immigration and racism in Canada : essential readings

Walker, Barrington, 1970- (editor).

Summary: This outstanding collection examines the complex and disturbing history of immigration and racism in Canada. Major themes include Native/non-Native contact, migration and settlement in the nineteenth century, immigrant workers and radicalism, human rights, internment during WWII, and racism of the present day. The readings are divided into five cohesive sections: Natives and Newcomers in Early Canada ; Space and Racialized Communities ; Dangerous Others—Non-Citizens and the State ; Gate-keeping—Enemies Without and Within ; The Post-War Era—New Rights and New Racisms. This book is destined to make its mark in History departments across the country and will also be of interest to students and researchers in Canadian Studies, Sociology, Demography, Political Science, and Geography.--

Record details

ISBN: 9781551303406
ISBN: 155130340X
Physical Description: print
305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Toronto : Canadian Scholars' Press, 2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

PART I: Natives and Newcomers in Early "Canada" -- Chapter 1: Canada When Europeans Arrived / Olive Patricia Dickinson -- Chapter 2: Slavery, the Loyalists, and English Canada, 1760–1801 / Robin W. Winks -- Chapter 3: Americans in Upper Canada, 1791–1812: "Late Loyalists" or Early Immigrants / Peter Marshall -- Chapter 4: Land and Settlement in Nova Scotia / James St. G. Walker -- PART II: Space and Racialized Communities -- Chapter 5: "We had no desire to be set apart": Forced Segregation of Black Students in Canada West Public Schools and Myths of British Egalitarianism / Kristin McLaren -- Chapter 6: The Colonial Sojourners, 1858–1871 / Patricia E. Roy -- Chapter 7: Creating Outsiders, 1875–1903 / Kay J. Anderson -- PART III: Dangerous Others: Non-Citizens and the State -- Chapter 8: Two Acres and a Cow: "Peasant" Farming for the Indians of the Northwest, 1889–97 / Sarah A. Carter -- Chapter 9: European Immigrant Workers and Labour Protest in Peace and War, 1896–1919 / Donald Avery -- Chapter 10: "Mixing with People on Spadina": The Tense Relations between Non-Jewish Workers and Jewish Workers / Ruth A. Frager -- Chapter 11: Proletarian Ideology / Carmela Patrias -- PART IV: Gate-keeping: Enemies Without and Within -- Chapter 12: Racial Purity, Sexual Purity, and Immigration Policy / Mariana Valverde -- Chapter 13: Stemming the Flood of Defective Aliens / Angus McLaren -- Chapter 14: Evacuation / Peter W. Ward -- Chapter 15: The Evacuation of the Japanese Canadians, 1942: A Realist Critique of the Received Version / J.L. Granatstein and Gregory A. Johnson -- PART V: The Post-War Era: New Rights and New Racisms -- Chapter 16: "We weren't allowed to go into factory work until Hitler started the war": The 1920s to the 1940s / Dionne Brand -- Chapter 17: From Contadina to Woman Worker / Franca Iacovetta -- Chapter 18: Marginalized and Dissident Non-Citizens: Foreign Domestic Workers / Daiva K. Stasiulis and Abigail B. Bakan -- Chapter 19: The Economic Exclusion of Racialized Communities―A Statistical Profile / Grace-Edward Galabuzi