HIS312H1 Lecture : lectures 9 and 10
Document Summary
Lecture 9: anti-orientalism and a white canada policy. Ppl opposed formed organizations to tackle the asian issue campaigns, lobbyists, election campaigns, drawing attention to their campaign result was broad-based movement. Many clergymen active in this movement wanted to create christian society and chinese threatened that. Lawyers, businessmen, working class, politicians everyone: very few people spoke out against it, except the chinese. Some people in ottawa and bc worked to undermine it, but clandestinely. So popular was the movement that people were afraid to say anything against it. Similar to other movements in terms of organizational structures. Prohibition movement, organized along similar lines also when women"s movement started, wanted the vote: this movement contrasts to the blacks. Yellow peril meant that china"s pop was so vast, they"ll come in huge numbers and overwhelm the whites, the numerous other that would pose a threat to canada"s standards and.
