{"product_id":"colonial-proximities-1","title":"Colonial Proximities","description":"\u003cp\u003eReal and imagined encounters among Aboriginal peoples, European colonists, Chinese migrants, and mixed-race populations produced racial anxieties that underwrote crossracial contacts in the salmon canneries, the illicit liquor trade, and the (white) slavery scare in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British Columbia. \u003cem\u003eColonial Proximities\u003c\/em\u003e explores the legal and spatial strategies of rule deployed by Indian agents, missionaries, and legal authorities who aspired to restrict crossracial encounters. By connecting genealogies of aboriginal-European contact with those of Chinese migration, this book reveals that territorial dispossession and Chinese exclusion were never distinct projects but two conjunctive processes in the making of the settler regime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on archival documents and historical records, \u003cem\u003eColonial Proximities\u003c\/em\u003e historicizes current discussions of multiculturalism and pluralism in modern settler societies by revealing how crossracial interactions in one colonial contact zone inspired juridical racial truths and forms of governance that continue to linger in contemporary racial politics. It is essential reading for students and practitioners of history, anthropology, sociology, colonial\/ postcolonial studies, and critical race and legal studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Renisa Mawani","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53616309240188,"sku":"9780774816335","price":87.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780774816335_b5c4416f-7a3d-47fc-a9f6-e6686c5d0af5.jpg?v=1727873279","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/colonial-proximities-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}