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.
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 1995
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Geographer
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle, 1994
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- variable, 1875-1980
- Coverage Place
- Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Notes
- Kay J. Anderson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-310) and index
- LCCN
- c910902232
- LCSH
- Chinese Canadians