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North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955
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Author/contributor
- Mathieu, Sarah-Jane (Author)
Title
North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955
Abstract
This book examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black railway workers and their union, the Order of Sleeping Car Porters, the author connects social, political, labor, immigration, and black diaspora history during the Jim Crow era. By World War I, sleeping car portering had become the exclusive province of black men. White railwaymen protested the presence of the black workers and insisted on a segregated workforce. Using the first-hand accounts of former sleeping car porters, the author shows that porters often found themselves leading racial uplift organizations, galvanizing their communities, and becoming the bedrock of civil rights activism. Examining the spread of segregation laws and practices in Canada, whose citizens often imagined themselves as devoid of racism, she historicizes Canadian racial attitudes and explores how black migrants brought their own sensibilities about race to Canada, participating in and changing political discourse there. --Publisher's description. Contents: Introduction. Birth of a nation: race, empire, and nationalism during Canada's railway age -- Drawing the line: race and Canadian immigration policy -- Jim Crow rides this train: segregation in the Canadian workforce -- Fighting the empire: race, war, and mobilization -- Building an empire, uplifting a race: race, uplift, and transnational alliances -- Bonds of steel: depression, war, and international brotherhood. Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-267) and index.
Series
The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture; Variation: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Place
Chapel Hill, NC
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Date
2010
# of Pages
xv, 280 pages: illustrations, maps, photographs
Language
English
ISBN
978-0-8078-3429-9
Short Title
North of the Color Line
Extra
OCLC: 607975641
Notes
Contents: Introduction. Birth of a nation: race, empire, and nationalism during Canada's railway age -- Drawing the line: race and Canadian immigration policy -- Jim Crow rides this train: segregation in the Canadian workforce -- Fighting the empire: race, war, and mobilization -- Building an empire, uplifting a race: race, uplift, and transnational alliances -- Bonds of steel: depression, war, and international brotherhood.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-267) and index.
Citation
Mathieu, S.-J. (2010). North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955. University of North Carolina Press. https://northcarolina.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5149/9780807899397_mathieu/upso-9780807834299
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