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Biographical note
John Price is an associate professor of history at the University of Victoria.
Colony to nation? Isolationism to internationalism? WASP society to a multicultural Canada? Focusing on imperial conflicts in the Pacific, Orienting Canada disrupts these familiar narratives in Canadian history by tracing the relationship between racism and Canadian foreign policy.
Grounded in transnationalism and anti-racist theory, this book reassesses critical transpacific incidents, including Vancouver's race riots of 1907, the Chinese head tax, the wars in the Pacific from 1937 to 1945, the internment of Japanese Canadians, and Canada's early intervention in Vietnam. Shocking revelations about the effects of racism and war into the 1960s are tempered by stories of community resilience and transformation. As a transpacific lens on the past, Orienting Canada deflects Canada's European gaze back onto itself to reveal images that both provoke and unsettle.
Introduction
Part 1: Race, Empire, and War
1 Prologue to War: Migration, Race, and Empire
2 China and the Clash of Empires
3 December 1941 and World War
4 Hiroshima and War's End
5 Shades of Liberation
6 Boundaries of Race and Democracy
7 Elusive Justice: Canada and the Tokyo Tribunal
Part 2: Pax Americana – Race, Anti-Communism, and Asia
8 Mr. Kennan Comes to Ottawa
9 Canada, Asia, and "Pax Americana"
10 America's Prestige, Korea's War
11 The San Francisco Peace Treaty and Re-Militarization
of the Transpacific
12 Racism, War Crimes, and the Korean War
13 Vietnam: Departures in Canadian Foreign Policy
Conclusion
Chronology
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Colony to nation? Isolationism to internationalism? WASP society to a multicultural Canada? Focusing on imperial conflicts in the Pacific, Orienting Canada disrupts these familiar narratives in Canadian history by tracing the relationship between racism and Canadian foreign policy.
Grounded in transnationalism and anti-racist theory, this book reassesses critical transpacific incidents, including Vancouver's race riots of 1907, the Chinese head tax, the wars in the Pacific from 1937 to 1945, the internment of Japanese Canadians, and Canada's early intervention in Vietnam. Shocking revelations about the effects of racism and war into the 1960s are tempered by stories of community resilience and transformation. As a transpacific lens on the past, Orienting Canada deflects Canada's European gaze back onto itself to reveal images that both provoke and unsettle.
Introduction
Part 1: Race, Empire, and War
1 Prologue to War: Migration, Race, and Empire
2 China and the Clash of Empires
3 December 1941 and World War
4 Hiroshima and War's End
5 Shades of Liberation
6 Boundaries of Race and Democracy
7 Elusive Justice: Canada and the Tokyo Tribunal
Part 2: Pax Americana – Race, Anti-Communism, and Asia
8 Mr. Kennan Comes to Ottawa
9 Canada, Asia, and "Pax Americana"
10 America's Prestige, Korea's War
11 The San Francisco Peace Treaty and Re-Militarization
of the Transpacific
12 Racism, War Crimes, and the Korean War
13 Vietnam: Departures in Canadian Foreign Policy
Conclusion
Chronology
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index