HIST 124 Lecture Notes - Haida Gwaii, British Columbia Interior, Femininity
Document Summary
The historical roots of whiteness in canada: rethinking race and the historical present, last friday: sir john a macdonald, idle no more, and history as contested terrain. 1873: north west mountain police to extend canada sovereignty and bring law and order to the west: race and people of colour. In 1885: parliament tried to pass electoral franchise act to control who can vote: macdonald tried to deny vote to chinese. Most explorations of race has focused on people of colour. Neutral category escapes outside the back door. Macdonald thought more of whiteness as a race when modern society doesn"t. Whiteness is best understood not as biological given but as a constantly changing set of concrete practices that are historial and political. Making the westcoast white: case study of british columbia. Bc = british project of colonizations formal colonial acitivity established when vancouver island: aboriginal peoples and a cosmopolitan colony.
