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

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...

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Veröffentlicht in:Annals of the Association of American Geographers. - Blackwell Publishers, 1911. - 77(1987), 4, Seite 580-598
1. Verfasser: Anderson, Kay J. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 1987
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Schlagworte:Race Place State Ideology Representation Racial Classification Cultural Hegemony Behavioral sciences Physical sciences Political science mehr... Economics Social sciences Health sciences
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520 |a 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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