Orienting Canada
Race, Empire, and the Transpacific
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2011
- Category
- General, Political Freedom, Discrimination & Race Relations, Post-Confederation (1867-), 20th Century
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774819831
- Publish Date
- May 2011
- List Price
- $36.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774819848
- Publish Date
- Jan 2012
- List Price
- $34.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774819855
- Publish Date
- May 2011
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
Colony to nation? Isolationism to internationalism? WASP society to a multicultural Canada? Focusing on imperial conflicts in the Pacific, Orienting Canada disrupts these familiar narratives in Canadian history by tracing the relationship between racism and Canadian foreign policy.
Grounded in transnationalism and anti-racist theory, this book reassesses critical transpacific incidents, including Vancouver's race riots of 1907, the Chinese head tax, the wars in the Pacific from 1937 to 1945, the internment of Japanese Canadians, and Canada’s early intervention in Vietnam. Shocking revelations about the effects of racism and war into the 1960s are tempered by stories of community resilience and transformation. As a transpacific lens on the past, Orienting Canada deflects Canada’s European gaze back onto itself to reveal images that both provoke and unsettle.
About the author
Awards
- Short-listed, Canadian Political History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association
Contributor Notes
John Price is an associate professor of history at the University of Victoria.