Colonial Proximities - Crossracial Encounters Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871

Informationen zum Autor Renisa Mawani is an associate professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia. Klappentext Renisa Mawani is an associate professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia. Zusammenfassung Colonial Proximities traces the encounters between aboriginal peoples! mixed-race populations! Chinese migrants! and Europeans in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British Columbia. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Introduction: Heterogeneity and Interraciality in British Columbia's Colonial "Contact Zone"2 The Racial Impurities of Global Capitalism: The Politics of Labour, Interraciality, and Lawlessness in the Salmon Canneries3 (White) Slavery, Colonial Knowledges, and the Rise of State Racisms4 National Formations and Racial Selves: Chinese Traffickers and Aboriginal Victims in British Columbia's Illicit Liquor Trade5 "The Most Disreputable Characters": Mixed-Bloods, Internal Enemies, and Imperial FuturesConclusion: Colonial Pasts, Entangled Presents, and Promising FuturesNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Renisa Mawani
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2010
• EAN: 9780774816342
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-1634-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Law and Society; Law and Society (Paperback); Law and Society; Law and Society (Paperback)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous