HREQ 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ideal Norm, Prison Cell, Canadian Identity
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The movie notes- film in the shadows of golden mountain. for every chinese to come to canada- head tax. No longer going to be a white country. Nothing stopped the chinese to come to canada not even the . Discrimination is always going to stay alive. About 2/3 of chinese in canada were bachelors. Only the chinese had the head tax. Karen choa- director of the movie- need to know for the exam. 1923- 23$ million dollar government collected- 81, 000 chinese. 1923- the immigration act, no chinese allowed no matter how much they paid. If you didn"t come back to canada in two years, they take your right away to live in canada. She provides a materialist analysis of women"s exclusion and men"s exclusion in the building on national canadian identity. White settler society has dominant voice, making up rules and regulations. Anti-racist feminist- how rules and regulations have influenced peoples live.