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Author Mar, Lisa Rose

Title Brokering belonging : Chinese in Canada's exclusion era, 1885-1945 / Lisa Rose Mar
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (230 pages)
Contents Negotiating protection : illegal immigration and party machines -- Arguing cases : legal interpreters, law, and society -- Popularizing politics : the anti-segregation movement as social revolution -- Fixing knowledge : Pacific Coast Chinese leaders' management of the Chicago School of Sociology -- Transforming democracy : brokerage politics and the exclusion era's denouement -- Conclusions
Summary This title traces several generations of Chinese 'brokers, ' ethnic leaders who acted as intermediaries between the Chinese and Anglo worlds of Canada. By reinserting Chinese back into mainstream politics, this book alters common understandings of how legally 'alien' groups' helped create modern immigrant nations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-215) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Chinese -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History -- 19th century
Chinese -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History -- 20th century
Immigrants -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History
Chinese -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada -- History
Emigration and immigration law -- Canada -- History
Chinese -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Politics and government
Brokers -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History
Civic leaders -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History
Community life -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Brokers
Chinese
Chinese -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Chinese -- Politics and government
Civic leaders
Community life
Emigration and immigration law
Ethnic relations
Immigrants
SUBJECT Vancouver (B.C.) -- Ethnic relations
Subject British Columbia -- Vancouver
Canada
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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