Antiracist History & Theory

John A. Macdonald, ‘the Chinese’ and Racist State Formation in Canada

Alexander L.

Factsheet

Description

The factsheet unpacks how John A. Macdonald through a racist agenda disenfranchised Chinese Canadians from being able to vote. Looking at the creation of the "racist state" by defining the different types of racism, including biological racism, the fact sheet looks at who was included and who excluded from voting and owning property.

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References

  • Stanley, T. J. (2016). "John A. MacDonald, 'the Chinese and Racist State Formation in Canada." Journal of Critical Race Inquiry 3, no. 1: pp. 6-34. DOI: 10.24908/jcri.v3i1.5974

Source Authors

Timothy Stanley

Keywords

'Aryan British America', 'biologically racist state', assimilation, authority, blanket disenfranchisement, Chinese Canadians, Chinese Settlers, cultural differences, cultural distinctions, cultural genocide, cultural racism, different racisms, Dispossession, dynamic systems of social organization, evolutionism, evolutionists, Exclusion, Federal Government of Canada, formation of the state, ideological racism, Indigenous lands, Indigenous Peoples, knowledge-making systems, Land Dispossession, monogenism, Othering, polygenism, populations, power structures, private property, provincial jurisdiction, Racialization, racialized, racialized exclusions, racism, racist state, settlers, social organization, state apparatus, state system, Theories of Evolution, white settlers, White Supremacy