Clio as an Ethnic: The Third Force in Canadian Historiography

Perin, Roberto

doi:10.3138/chr-064-04-01

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“…Fredrick Barth (1969, 14) began the critique in anthropology over 20 years ago when he claimed "we can assume no simple oneto-one relationship between ethnic units and cultural similarities and differences." There is by now a convincing critique of the tradition of cultural relativism in North American ethnic studies, where ethnicity was accepted as an innate property of culture-bearing groups (e.g., Jackson 1981;Peach 1984;Perrin 1983;Steinberg 1981;Watson 1981). According to the more recent argument, ethnic groups are created socially by internal rules of exclusion and inclusion around idioms of actual or perceived common descent such as language and religion.…”

Section: Chinatown As a Western Landscape Typementioning

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The Idea of Chinatown: The Power of Place and Institutional Practice in the Making of a Racial Category

Anderson

1987

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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103

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Racial categories are cultural ascriptions whose construction and transmission cannot be taken for granted. I focus here on the process by which racial categories are themselves constructed; in particular, I examine the presence of place and the role of state in the making of one such category, the "Chinese," in a British settler society from the 1880s to the 1920s. I argue that "Chinatown," like race, is an idea that belongs to the "white" European cultural tradition. The significance of government is that it has granted legitimacy to the ideas of Chinese and Chinatown, inscribing social definitions of identity and place in institutional practice and space. Indeed Chinatown has been a critical nexus through which the race definition process was structured. I examine this process in Vancouver, British Columbia, where the municipal authorities of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries sanctioned the intellectual milieu of race. They did this, I argue, as part of the historical exercise of white European cultural domination. In short, I wish to uncover the dynamic between place, racial discourse, power, and institutional practice by way of contributing to the recent rediscovery of place in human geography.

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Section: Chinatown As a Western Landscape Typementioning

confidence: 99%

The Idea of Chinatown: The Power of Place and Institutional Practice in the Making of a Racial Category

Anderson

1987

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

220

103

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The writing of social history in English Canada, 1970–1984

Kealey¹

1985

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Transnationalizing Home in Winnipeg: Refugees’ Stories of the Places Between the “Here-and-There”

Freund¹

2015

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This article asks how refugees narrate home. Based on extensive interviews (oral histories) with refugees in Winnipeg, Manitoba, who arrived from Europe after the Second World War, from Central America during the 1980s, and from Afghanistan during the 2000s, this article argues that refugees are continually engaged in the process of making home, not only in the sending and receiving countries, but also in countries along their often complex and long migration routes. Listening closely to their stories forces researchers to move beyond “methodological nationalism” and a dichotomous “here-or-there” conceptualization of home, toward a transnationalizing of home. Dans cet article je parle au sujet de comment les réfugiés racontent ce qui est, pour eux, leur maison. La recherche est basée sur les entrevues (histoire orale) avec des réfugiés à Winnipeg, Manitoba. Ceux-ci sont arrivés de l’Europe après la deuxième guerre mondiale, ainsi que de l’Amérique Centrale pendant les années 80, et d’Afghanistan pendant les années 2000. Je parle du processus de s’établir un domicile, dans lequel les réfugiés se sont continuellement engagés, pas seulement dans leur pays d’origine et d’accueil, mais aussi dans les pays tout au long de leurs voies de migration, souvent complexes et longues. L’écoute attentive de leurs histoires fait en sorte que les chercheurs se déplacent au-delà du « nationalisme méthodologique » et de l’idée des pôles opposés représentée par « ici ou là », pour aller chercher les innombrables connections entre les différents pays, ainsi qu’une transnationalisation des maisons.

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Clio as an Ethnic: The Third Force in Canadian Historiography

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

The Idea of Chinatown: The Power of Place and Institutional Practice in the Making of a Racial Category

The Idea of Chinatown: The Power of Place and Institutional Practice in the Making of a Racial Category

The writing of social history in English Canada, 1970–1984

Transnationalizing Home in Winnipeg: Refugees’ Stories of the Places Between the “Here-and-There”

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