Contesting White Supremacy : School Segregation, Anti-Racism, and the Making of Chinese Canadians

Timothy J. Stanley

ISBN 10: 0774819316 / ISBN 13: 9780774819312

Published by University Of British Columbia Press Feb 2011, 2011

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Neuware - Timothy J. Stanley is a professor of anti-racism education and education foundations in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Contesting White Supremacy : School Segregation, Anti-Racism, and the Making of Chinese Canadians
• Publisher: University Of British Columbia Press Feb 2011
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774819316
• ISBN 13: 9780774819312
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 0D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 0 millimeters depth
• Weight: 620 grams

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Synopsis

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 at the time and runs against the grain of mainstream accounts of Asian exclusion, which tend to ignore the agency of the excluded.

Contesting White Supremacy offers an alternative reading of racism in British Columbia. Drawing on Chinese sources and perspectives and an innovative theory of racism and anti-racism to explain the strike, Timothy Stanley demonstrates that by the 1920s migrants from China and their BC-born children actively resisted policy makers’ efforts to organize white supremacy into the very texture of life. The education system served as an arena where white supremacy confronted Chinese nationalist schooling and where parents and students rejected the idea of being either Chinese or Canadian and instead invented a new category – Chinese Canadian – to define their identity.

About the Author

Timothy J. Stanley is a professor of anti-racism education and education foundations in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa.