Flying Fish in the Great White North : the Autonomous Migration of Black Barbadians / Christopher Stuart Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Christopher Stuart, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Barbadians--Canada--History.

Barbadians.

Immigrants--Canada--History.

Immigrants.

Emigration and immigration.

Government policy.

History.

Ethnic relations.

Discrimination.

Racism.

Canada.

Racism--Canada--History.

Discrimination--Canada--History.

Canada--Ethnic relations--History.

Canada--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--History.

Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

217 pages : tables ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Halifax & Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing, [2016]

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

"Notwithstanding Indigenous Peoples, Canada is a nation of immigrants. As a settler colony, the French and English charter immigrant "solitudes" created a paradigm of "White Canada" nation-building defined by exclusionary and hypocritical immigration policies. Canada was a "White man's country" built by non-Whites on the stolen lands of colonized Aboriginal peoples, where discriminatory anti-Black immigration policy, particularly during the early twentieth century up to the immigration policy reforms of the 1960s, was designed to restrict and prohibit the entry of Black Barbadians and Black West Indians. The Canadian state capitalized on the public's fear of the "Black unknown" and the negative codification of Black identity and used illogical fallacies such as climate "unsuitability" to justify the exclusion of Black Barbadians and West Indians"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Black Face for Black People: Ideas of "Black" and "Blackness" in Barbadian History 14

"White Canada": Blackness, Liberalism and the Liberal Racial Order 18

Constructing Black Barbadian Identity and the Transatlantic Slave Trade 24

Black Barbadian Colonial Identity 31

2 The Politics of Education 39

The Rise of Black Barbadian Democracy, 1938-1966 40

The Barbadian Education System 43

The Legacy of (Free) Education 49

3 The Agency and Culture of Movement: Barbadian Emigration Push Factors 55

A History of Emigration from Barbados 56

Barbadian Emigration to the United States 68

Barbadian Emigration to the United Kingdom 73

The Commonwealth Immigrants Act 80

Emigration and Barbadian Social, Political and Economic Implications 87

4 Barbadian- and West Indian-Canadian Relations 93

Economic and Political Relations 95

Social Relations 100

Race, Colour and the Ideological Paradox of Canadian Immigration 106

De-racialization of Canadian Immigration: The New Immigration Regulations of 1962 124

5 The Emigrant Ambassadors 142

Barbadian Women: A History 144

Barbadian Emigration to Canada: The Eve of the Domestic Scheme 150

The Domestic Scheme and the Nurses 154

The Barbadian Educator in Canada 170.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-202) and index.

Other Format:

Taylor, Christopher Stuart, author. Flying fish in the great white north.

ISBN:

9781552668948

1552668940

OCLC:

950689595

Publisher Number:

99969664703