Colonial Proximities

Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Law, Legal History, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology
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Author: Renisa Mawani ISBN: 9780774858854
Publisher: UBC Press Publication: January 1, 2010
Imprint: UBC Press Language: English
Author: Renisa Mawani
ISBN: 9780774858854
Publisher: UBC Press
Publication: January 1, 2010
Imprint: UBC Press
Language: English

Encounters among Aboriginal peoples, European colonists, Chinese migrants, and mixed-race populations generated a range of racial anxieties that underwrote colonialism in BC. By focusing on these points of contact, this book forges critical links between histories of migration and dispossession. The book highlights the legal and spatial strategies of rule mobilized by Indian agents, missionaries, and legal authorities who sought to restrict crossracial encounters. Mawani illustrates how interracial proximities in one colonial contact zone inspired the production of juridical racial truths and modes of governance that continue to linger in the racial politics of contemporary settler societies.

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Encounters among Aboriginal peoples, European colonists, Chinese migrants, and mixed-race populations generated a range of racial anxieties that underwrote colonialism in BC. By focusing on these points of contact, this book forges critical links between histories of migration and dispossession. The book highlights the legal and spatial strategies of rule mobilized by Indian agents, missionaries, and legal authorities who sought to restrict crossracial encounters. Mawani illustrates how interracial proximities in one colonial contact zone inspired the production of juridical racial truths and modes of governance that continue to linger in the racial politics of contemporary settler societies.

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