Encounters among Aboriginal peoples, European colonists, Chinese migrants, and mixed-race populations generated a range of racial anxieties that underwrote colonialism in BC. By focusing on these points of contact, this book forges critical links between histories of migration and dispossession. The book highlights the legal and spatial strategies of rule mobilized by Indian agents, missionaries, and legal authorities who sought to restrict crossracial encounters. Mawani illustrates how interracial proximities in one colonial contact zone inspired the production of juridical racial truths and modes of governance that continue to linger in the racial politics of contemporary settler societies.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
ISBN-13
9780774816342
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95839230
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Regional History
Author
Renisa Mawani
Publication Name
Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Law, Anthropology, History
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
480g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Renisa Mawani
Series Title
Law and Society
Country/Region of Manufacture
Canada
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