HIST 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Transcontinental Railroad, Dominion, Ten Acres
22 Apr 2016
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: whiteness in canadian history: rethinking race and the historical present. Canadian past is debated, how one should interpret this: sunday, bloody, sunday: sir john a and the aryan nation". He starved the people of the plains to get them onto the reserves. A dream of a white dominion from one coast to another. The legislation passed and doing so enacted canada as a racial state (race defining practices in canada). Reflecting back on the career he referred to his white dominion as his greatest achievement. Such black marks don"t figure into our national history, national history is more about celebrating than offering a critical opinion: race and people of colour, affirmative personal/familial identity and community belonging. For people of colour this could mean white racism, most explorations of race focus on the experiences of people of colour: history, racism and resistance. Efforts of people of colour to resist racism: whiteness: the unmarked race and race as historical/political.
