Event Info
Over a hundred years ago, Indigenous peoples, racialized communities, and radical labour were organizing for change, only to be met with intensified racism and repression. The passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1923 was one result, reflecting a resurgence of white supremacy in Canada. Social movements faced two hard decades in the aftermath.
And what of today? Is the current stigmatization of some Chinese Canadians as ‘agents of China’ a new form of exclusion? Why are the politics of fear and division growing when we face existential crises arising from environmental
disaster, pandemics, and potential nuclear annihilation?
Drawing on theories of settler colonialism and racial capitalism, this presentation emphasizes the need for ongoing critical analysis, and the potential for intersectional solidarity.
Drawing on theories of settler colonialism and racial capitalism, Dr. John Price’s presentation will emphasize the need for ongoing critical analysis, and the potential for intersectional solidarity.
When: September 14, 2023 at 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM; a light lunch will be served
Location: 1216 Dunton Tower
Key Contact: Donna Malone (donna.malone@carleton.ca)
John Price is University of Victoria professor emeritus (history). He is the author of Orienting Canada: Race, Empire and the Transpacific (2011) and, with Ningping Yu, wrote A Woman in Between: Searching for Dr. Victoria Chung (2019), a biography of the first person of Asian Canadian heritage to graduate from medical school in Canada. He is co-founder of Canada-China Focus, a project of the Centre for Global Studies and the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute.
Registration is required for this event.
Please contact donna.malone@carleton.ca to RSVP.
