Institutional racism in British Columbia
Subtitle: the Japanese case.
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
Description: This thesis is a contribution to the study of the Japanese-Canadians. It focuses on the Japanese-Canadians in British Columbia and analyzes the anti-Japanese legislation enacted by the province from the early acts of the 1880s, until the 1928 Gentlemen's Agreement that drastically restricted Japanese immigration. Those acts go under the definition of 'institutional racism': the provincial and federal enforcement of a legislation that discriminated citizens on the base of their race. British Columbia was characterized by socio-economic conditions that created a high level of competitiveness between white and East Asian workers. What brought about the enforcement of the discriminatory laws was the determination of unionized workers, and those politicians who sustained them, to eliminate 'oriental' competition. Popular beliefs and misrepresentation of East Asian immigrants, and the irrational hysteria that arose from an ad hoc manipulation of them, were used to create a consensual base for the perpetration of those actions.
Notes: Adviser:  Ken Kawashima.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2004.

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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 42-06, page: 2049.

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