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Mawani (sociology, U. of British Columbia) takes a wide-ranging approach in this insightful book on efforts by Indian agents, missionaries, and authorities to restrict interracial encounters in British Columbia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Racial tensions were high during the era in which aboriginal people, European colonists, Chinese immigrants, and mixed race peoples worked side by side in the salmon canneries, the illegal liquor trade, and other areas. The author uses legal cases, archival documents, and commissions of inquiry to track the legal and spatial strategies employed to keep the disparate peoples apart in an effort to ensure racial and national purity. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
