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Orienting Canada: Race, Empire, and the Transpacific

By John Price

Book information

Publisher
Univ of British Columbia Pr
Year
2011
ISBN
0774819839, 9780774819831
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4383769 bytes)
Pages
445\464
Time added
2012-12-05 16:16:30

Description

Colony to nation? Isolationism to internationalism? WASP society to a multicultural Canada?  Focusing on imperial conflicts in the Pacific, Orienting Canada disrupts these familiar narratives in Canadian history by tracing the relationship between racism and Canadian foreign policy. Grounded in transnationalism and anti-racist theory, this book reassesses critical transpacific incidents, from the 1907 race riots to Canada’s early intervention in Vietnam. Shocking revelations about the effects of racism and war into the 1960s are tempered by stories of community resilience and transformation. As a transpacific lens on the past, Orienting Canada deflects Canada’s European gaze back onto itself to reveal images that both provoke and unsettle

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