On the cusp of contact : gender, space and race in the colonization of British Columbia / Jean Barman ; edited by Margery Fee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barman, Jean, 1939- author.

Contributor:

Fee, Margery, 1948- editor.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frontier and pioneer life--British Columbia.

Frontier and pioneer life.

British Columbia--Colonization.

British Columbia.

British Columbia--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 468 pages : illustrations)

Place of Publication:

Madeira Park, British Columbia : Harbour Publishing, [2020]

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

"The ways in which we can redress the past are many and varied," writes Jean Barman, "and it is up to each of us to act as best we can." The seventeen essays collected here, originally published between 1996 and 2013, make a valuable contribution toward this laudable goal. With a wide range of source material, from archival and documentary sources to oral histories, Barman pieces together stories of individuals and groups disadvantaged in white settler society because of their gender, race and/or social class. Working to recognize past actors that have been underrepresented in mainstream histories, Barman's focus is BC on "the cusp of contact." The essays in this collection include fascinating, though largely forgotten, life stories of the frontier--that space between contact and settlement, where, for a brief moment, anything seemed possible. This volume, featuring over thirty archival photographs and illustrations, makes these important and very readable essays accessible to a broader audience for the first time."--

Contents:

Race, Greed, and Something More: The Erasure of Urban Indigenous Space in Early Twentieth-Century British Columbia

Erasing Indigenous Indigeneity in Vancouver

Indigenous Women and Feminism on the Cusp of Contact

Indigenous Women on the Streets of Victoria: Rethinking Transgressive Sexuality during the Colonial Encounter

Taming Indigenous Sexuality: Gender, Power, and Race in British Columbia, 1850-1900

Invisible Women: Indigenous Mothers and Mixed-Race Daughters in Rural Pioneer British Columbia

Sophie Morigeau: Free Trader, Free Woman

Family Life at Fort Langley: Chinese Men and Indigenous Women in Early British Columbia

Beyond Chinatown

Lost Okanagan: In Search of the First Settler Families

Island Sanctuaries: Early Mixed-Race Settlement on Gabriola and Nearby Coastal Islands

New Land, New Lives: Hawaiian Settlement in British Columbia

Lost Nanaimo: Taking Back Our Past

Families vs. Schools: Children of Indigenous Descent in British Columbia Classrooms of the Late Nineteenth Century

Separate and Unequal: Indigenous and White Girls at All Hallows School, 1884-1920

Schooled for Inequality: The Education of British Columbia Indigenous Children.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781550178975

1550178970

OCLC:

1293248718