Book
Vancouver's Chinatown: racial discourse in Canada, 1875-1980
McGill-Queen's Press • Montreal, Québec • Published In 1991 • Pages: x, 323
By: Anderson, Kay.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a systematic analysis of the relationships between Vancouver's Chinese and European communities from the late 1880s to about 1980. The data focus on immigration policies of the Canadian government and the numerous forms of discrimination to which the Chinese immigrants were subjected from their earliest settlements in Vancouver to ca. 1980. Chapter 1 presents a general exposition of the idea of 'race', while Chapters 2-7, arranged in chronological order from 1875 to 1980, deal with the development of the racial category 'Chinese', by the Canadian government, the concept of Chinatown as viewed through the European imagination, the exploitation of the race idea in British Columbia and its implications for government practices, urban renewal and revitalization of the Chinatown area, and the development of radically new forms of neighborhood targeting that took place in the 1970s.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- History and culture change
- Settlements
- Mercantile business
- Labor
- Ethnic stratification
- Illegal entertainment
- Citizenship
- Taxation and public income
- Government regulation
- Elections
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chinese Canadians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Geographer
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle, 1994
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- variable, 1875-1980
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Kay J. Anderson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-310) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- c910902232
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chinese Canadians