Settler colonialism’s main pillar is its formation of white minority rule, with the white minority of settlers excluding the two largest population groups in British Columbia (B.C.): Indigenous Peoples and Chinese people. From the time B.C. joined Canada in 1871, Chinese people were denied inclusion in the state, including record of births, deaths, marriages and voting rights. Chinese people were not allowed to claim any land, even considering that all land had been stolen by settlers from Indigenous Peoples. The control of Chinese people by settlers to Canada was in an extreme effort to keep the colonized and colonizer divide and to lessen any threat to European control. European Settlers ascribed the “Chinese” identity onto those who migrated from the Guangdong province in South China, wrongly grouping people of different cultures and dialects against their own self-identification. Racism against Chinese Canadians meets three conditions of racism: Racialization, exclusions based on racialization and negative consequences to the racialized/excluded.
Stanley, Timothy J.
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