| Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921 Contributor(s): Mawani, Renisa (Author) |
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ISBN: 0774816341 ISBN-13: 9780774816342 Publisher: University of British Columbia Press OUR PRICE: $34.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Canada - General |
| Dewey: 971.103 |
| LCCN: 2009281410 |
| Series: Law and Society (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.95 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |