Contesting White Supremacy

Klappentext In 1922-23, Chinese students in Victoria, British Columbia, went on strike to protest a school board's attempt to impose segregation. Their resistance was unexpected and runs against the grain of mainstream accounts of Asian exclusion, which tend to ignore the agency of the excluded. In Contesting White Supremacy , Timothy Stanley combines Chinese sources and perspectives with an innovative theory of racism and anti-racism to explain the strike and construct an alternative reading of racism in British Columbia. His work demonstrates that education was an arena in which white supremacy confronted Chinese nationalist schooling and where parents and students contested racism by constructing a new category - Chinese Canadian - to define their identity. Zusammenfassung By drawing on Chinese sources and perspectives, this book offers an anti-racist history of the 1922-23 Chinese studentsâ™ strike in Victoria and Asian exclusion and racism in British Columbia. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Questioning the Existence of the World1 The 1922-23 Students StrikePart 1: Racism2 Anti-Chinese Racism and the Colonial Project of British Columbia3 Racializing the Chinese, Racializingthe Canadian 4 Schooling and the Organization of Racist State Formation5 The Chinese Archipelago in Canada and the Consequences of Racialized ExclusionPart 2: Anti-Racism6 Resisting Racialization and the Invention of Chinese Canadians7 Making Inclusions and Chinese Nationalist State Formation in Canada8 Mitigating Racism through Chinese Nationalist Schooling9 Anti-Essentialist Anti-Racisms and the Resistances of Odd PlacesConclusion: Anti-Racism, History, and the Significance of Chinese CanadiansAppendixNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

Zusammenfassung
By drawing on Chinese sources and perspectives, this book offers an anti-racist history of the 1922-23 Chinese studentsâ™ strike in Victoria and Asian exclusion and racism in British Columbia.

Inhalt

Introduction: Questioning the Existence of the World

1 The 1922-23 Students Strike

Part 1: Racism

2 Anti-Chinese Racism and the Colonial Project of British Columbia

3 Racializing the Chinese, Racializingthe Canadian

4 Schooling and the Organization of Racist State Formation

5 The Chinese Archipelago in Canada and the Consequences of Racialized Exclusion

Part 2: Anti-Racism

6 Resisting Racialization and the Invention of Chinese Canadians

7 Making Inclusions and Chinese Nationalist State Formation in Canada

8 Mitigating Racism through Chinese Nationalist Schooling

9 Anti-Essentialist Anti-Racisms and the Resistances of Odd Places

Conclusion: Anti-Racism, History, and the Significance of Chinese Canadians

Appendix

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index