SOCI 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Chinese Head Tax In Canada, Eric Wolf, Chinese Canadians
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Wolf 1982 (p. 47: compartmentalise theory, eric wolf - critical theorist, marxist anthropologist - argued culture could not adequately be understood without power, mediates social arrangements. Goal: provide sense of interpersonal/institutional/ideological + infrastructural racisms faced by. Chinese canadians in canada: lay groundwork for theoretical idea that structural phenomena is understood within sociology as socioeconomic rather than cultural phenomenon i. e. chinese head tax. 2016 census in ca: 1. 8 million reported chinese ancestry, complexity of how people identify themselves. Infrastructural racism - roadways + foundation of a country: bedrock of ca - hand written receipt for head tax. Spanish) ---> chinese artisans of ship actually built the first non-indigenous ship in n. a: european ship for british captain, 30 june 1858 - digital archives, victoria gazette = 1st newspaper in bc. Socioeconomic context: recruitment for labour: chinese ca were brought for to ca with expressed purpose for providing labour for infrastructure.
