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

by Renisa Mawani

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774816341
• ISBN13: 9780774816342
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"