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, 2011

About this Item

By drawing on Chinese sources and perspectives, this book offers an anti-racist history of the 1922-23 Chinese students' strike in Victoria and Asian exclusion and racism in British Columbia. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JFFJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612. . 2011. Illustrated. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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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
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774819316
• ISBN 13: 9780774819312
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

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 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.

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.