Encountering Anomalies: A Cultural Study of Chinese Migrants to Early Canada

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments 1
4. Constructing Canada: An Introduction 3
5. Parameters of the Nation
6. Methodology on the Line: Constructing Meanings about ‘Cultural Difference’ in Health Care Research 19
7. Domination and Political Representation in Canada 37
8. On the Outskirts of Empire: Race and Gender in Canadian TV News 53
9. Keeping ’em Out: Gender, Race, and Class Biases in Canadian Immigration Policy 69
10. Constructions of Race and Gender
11. Documenting Racism: Sharon Pollock’s The Komagata Maru Incident 85
12. Reconstructing Canadian Literature: The Role of Race and Gender 100
13. ‘In another place, not here’: Dionne Brand’s Politics of (Dis)Location 113
14. ‘A Red Girl’s Reasoning’: E. Pauline Johnson Constructs the New Nation 130
15. Encountering Anomalies: A Cultural Study of Chinese Migrants to Early Canada 155
16. Toward a New Canada
17. The Mountie and the Nurse: Cross-Cultural Relations North of 60 173
18. A Lesbian Politics of Erotic Decolonization 187
19. Hegemonic Nationalism and the Politics of Feminism and Multiculturalism in Canada 215
20. Constructing Nation: The Gendering and Racializing of the Canadian Health Care System 242
21. Building Transdisciplinary Standpoints: An Integrative Bibliography 262
22. Contributors 279
23. Index 283