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- Title
CROSS-RACIAL ENCOUNTERS AND JURIDICAL TRUTHS: (Dis)Aggregating Race in British Columbia's Contact Zone.
- Abstract
The influx of Chinese immigrants in the late 19th century created new racial concerns for colonial authorities who tried to legally separate minority groups. A background on the influence of racism in the United States as well as British Columbian colonial practices and racial typologies explains the judgment that whites, blacks, Indians, and Chinese should be separated because of assumed social, moral, and physical incompatibility. Statistical tables from the reports of the Royal Commission on Chinese Immigration (1885) and the Royal Commission on the Liquor Traffic (1894) show that there was no proof to back up racist claims about Chinese liquor trafficking and drunkenness among Native Americans. Nonetheless, viewed as cunning and despotic, the Chinese were considered a demoralizing force on whites as well as on native people.
- Publication
BC Studies, 2007, Issue 156/157, p141
- ISSN
0005-2949
- Publication type
Article