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White Canada forever : popular attitudes and public policy toward Orientals in British Columbia / W. Peter Ward.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ward, W. Peter.
- Series:
- McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history ; 8.
- McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history ; 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese--British Columbia--Public opinion.
- Chinese.
- Japanese--British Columbia--Public opinion.
- Japanese.
- East Indians--British Columbia--Public opinion.
- East Indians.
- Public opinion--British Columbia.
- Public opinion.
- British Columbia--Race relations.
- British Columbia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 p.)
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; London ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ward draws upon a rich record of events and opinion in the provincial press, manuscript collections, and successive federal enquiries and royal commissions on Asian immigration. He locates the origins of west coast racism in the frustrated vision of a white British Columbia and an unshakeable belief in the unassimilability of the Asian immigrant. Canadian attitudes were dominated by a series of interlocking, hostile stereotypes derived from western perceptions of Asia and modified by the encounter between whites and Asians on the north Pacific coast. Public pressure on local, provincial, and federal governments led to discriminatory policies in the field of immigration and employment, and culminated in the forced relocation of west coast Japanese residents during World War II.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Preface to The Second Edition
- Preface to The Third Edition
- Sinophobia Ascendant
- JOHN CHINAMAN
- The Roots of Animosity
- Agitation and Restriction
- The Vancouver Riot
- East Indian Interlude
- The Komagata Maru Incident
- The Rise of Anti-Japanese Feeling
- Japs
- Exclusion
- Evacuation
- The Drive for a White B.C.
- Notes
- A Note on The Sources
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-86021-6
- 9786612860218
- 0-7735-6993-6
- OCLC:
- 243500654
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