Colonial Proximities

Renisa Mawani is an associate professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia.

"This book offers fascinating new perspectives on the roots of Canadian racism. Moving beyond traditional narratives of Aboriginal-European contact and Chinese-European relations, Renisa Mawani probes the unsettled landscape of cross-racial encounters between "indians" and "Chinese" in BC history. She deftly captures the frenzied anxieties that whites harboured over ungovernable mixed-race activities, and brilliantly dissects the renewed state racisms that were born of such encounters. - Constance Backhouse, University of Ottawa"

• 1 Introduction: Heterogeneity and Interraciality in British Columbia's Colonial "Contact Zone"2 The Racial Impurities of Global Capitalism: The Politics of Labour, Interraciality, and Lawlessness in the Salmon Canneries3 (White) Slavery, Colonial Knowledges, and the Rise of State Racisms4 National Formations and Racial Selves: Chinese Traffickers and Aboriginal Victims in British Columbia's Illicit Liquor Trade5 "The Most Disreputable Characters": Mixed-Bloods, Internal Enemies, and Imperial FuturesConclusion: Colonial Pasts, Entangled Presents, and Promising FuturesNotesBibliographyIndex