EN 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Internalized Racism
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The question of how to populate bc, saskatchewan, and alberta. Minister of the interior (responsible for immigration) sifton advertises land incentives to people in britain, usa to settle (+ 160 acres) Wanted brits, russians, and eastern europeans as well but they received smaller incentives. Black migrants from oklahoma would come in communities; oliver didn"t anticipate this. Was considered a ghetto; an ethnic ghetto . There was no sanitation; residences were close to the railroad. The population was about 30% native and 20% marginalized minorities. It was set up in the 1930s: critics suggested the first novel was published to show non-mainstream, some say it was melodramatic (implies issues are inflated and might reflect an perspective (not british or germanic) 1st person narrative focalization through sandor"s head: he and his dad don"t have a very good relationship, he has a fantasy about an english dad because wealth and english origin go hand in hand.
