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HISTORY 745

Canada’s Racial State

Graduate

This seminar explores Canadian modern history through the lens of racial state formation.

Winter 2026 · Canada?S Racial State · C01

Readings

  • Materials Available Through Library Ereserves
    Ereserves · Required
Winter 2026 · C01

This seminar explores Canadian modern history through the lens of racial state formation.

Readings

  • Debt of a Nation: Land and the Financing of the Canadian Settler State, 1820-73
    Tozer, Angela C · 2025 · Required
    UBC Press · ISBN 9780774871563
  • Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States
    Simpson, Audra · 2014 · Required
    Duke University Press · ISBN 9780822376781
  • Contesting White Supremacy
    Stanley, Timothy · 2011 · Required
    UBC Press · ISBN 9780774819312
  • Brokering Belonging: Chinese in Canada's Exclusion Era, 1885-1945
    Mar, Lisa · 2010 · Required
    Oxford · ISBN 9780999733149
  • Colour- Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950
    Backhouse, Constance · 1999 · Required
    University of Toronto and Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History · ISBN 9780802082862
  • Dominion of Race: Rethinking Canada's International History
    Edited by Laura Madokoro, Francine McKenzie and David Meren · 2018 · Required
    UBC Press · ISBN 9780774834469
  • Canada's Other Red Scare: Indigenous Protest and Colonial Encounters During the Global Sixties
    Rutherford, Scott · 2020 · Required
    McGill-Queen's University Press · ISBN 9780228005124
  • Society Must Be Defended (Chapter 11)
    Foucault, Michel · Required
  • The Racial State (Chapter 1)
    Goldberg, Theo · Required
  • The Racial Contract (Introduction and Chapter 1)
    Mills, Charles · Required
  • Whiteness as Property
    Harris, Cheryl · Required
  • The Threat of Race (Chapter 8)
    Goldberg, Theo · Required
  • Exalted Subjects (Chapters 2 and 4)
    Thobani, Sunera · Required
  • Black Skins White Masks (Chapter 8)
    Fanon, Frantz · Required
  • North to Bondage : Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes
    Whitfield, Harvey Amani · 2016 · Required
    UBC Press · ISBN 9780774832304
  • The Racial Contract (Introduction and Chapter 1)
    Mills, Charles · Recommended / optional
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