Anti-Chinese Racism and the Structure of White Supremacy: An Anti-Essentialist, Antiracist Perspective on Canadian History

Nataša C.S.

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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 and the control of Chinese people by settlers to Canada was in an extreme effort to keep the colonized-colonizer divide and to lessen any threat to European control.

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  • Stanley, Timothy J.

    “Anti-Chinese Racism and the Structure of White Supremacy: An Anti-Essentialist Antiracist Perspective on Canadian History. "The Canadian Historical Review 105, no. 1 (2024): 55–73. doi:10.3138/chr-2022-0030. University of Connecticut Office of the Provost. "Confronting Anti-Asian Racism.” Accessed March 1, 2025. https://provost.uconn.edu/confronting-anti-asian-racism.

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