Article
Making the Inscrutable, Scrutable: Race and Space in Victoria's Chinatown, 1891
B.C. Studies
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-1-2011
URL with Digital Object Identifier
https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i169.1740
Disciplines
Abstract
- This article analyzes the racial and social structure of Victoria, British Columbia's capital city, in particular its Chinatown neighbourhood. The authors' methodology combines the use of geographical information systems (gis) with discourse analysis, and devise a theoretical framework derived from the ideas of Henri Lefebvre. The authors come to the view that the community "was extensively but not exclusively Chinese and a Chinese population that was not confined to Chinatown"; and further that "the boundaries of race were not as fixed as they have often been assumed to be.". [IBSSRU - Quotes from original] Reprinted by permission of BC Studies
Citation Information
Patrick A Dunae, John S Lutz, Donald Lafreniere and Jason Gilliland. "Making the Inscrutable, Scrutable: Race and Space in Victoria's Chinatown, 1891" B.C. Studies Vol. 169 (2011) p. 51 - 80 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jason-gilliland/98/
Also available open access in B.C. Studies at: https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i169.1740