White Canada Forever
Subtitle: Popular Attitudes and Public Policy Toward Orientals in British Columbia (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History)
Edition: 3Rev Ed edition
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: April 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780773523227
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; American history: from c 1900 -; Racism & racial discrimination; Social history; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Race And Ethnic Relations; Social Science; Sociology; British Columbia; Discrimination & Racism; Minority Studies - Race Relations; Public Policy - General
Description: "White British Columbians directed recurring outbursts of prejudice against the Chinese, Japanese, and East Indians who lived among them between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. Public pressure on local, provincial, and federal governments led to discriminatory policies in the field of immigration and employment, and culminated in the forced relocation of west coast Japanese residents during World War II.

In White Canada Forever Peter Ward reveals the full extent and periodic virulence of west coast racism."--BOOK JACKET.