How Do You Know Who Is White?

T. Liu

This factsheet looks at what race does to provide a better understanding of how race is made-up to justify
unequal power relations. The factsheet details how race works in relation with gender and class to continue giving social, political and economic power to whiteness and masculinity.

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References

Scott, C. (2016). “How French Canadians became White Folks, or Doing Things with Race in Quebec.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 39, no. 7, pp. 1280-1297. DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2015.1103880
See, S. W. (2000). “An Unprecedented Influx: Nativism and Irish Famine Immigration to Canada.” The American Review of Canadian Studies 30, no. 4, pp. 429-453. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02722010009481062

Source Authors

Corrie Scott, Scott W. See

Events

The Irish Famine (Great Famine),

Keywords

'Race' as a Political Tool, Canada's Colonial History, Challenge Assumptions, Challenging Whiteness, Colonial Violence, Constructing 'Race', Constructing Difference, Doctrine of Discovery, European Settlers, Historicizing Whiteness, Immigration, Interrupting Assumptions, Interrupting Colonial Narratives, Intersectionality, Justifying Injustice, Nativism, Patriarchy, Religion and Power, Representations and Power, Settler-Indigenous Relations, Terra Nullius, Unsettling Settlers, White Privilege, White Supremacy

Key Figures

Lord Durham

Locations

British North America, Canada, North America

Themes

History, Theory