File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1999/postcolonial.9904, message 95


Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 19:47:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ivison Douglas <ivisond-AT-magellan.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: West is White????


> Just an additional comment re: the presentation of Canada- there where
> iternment camps here during (WWII) for Asian populations, there is and has
> been in the past, a "head tax" imposed on immigrants from "Third World"
> countries (another term linked with Western hegemony) and, 

isn't the current "head tax" on immigrants applicable to all immigrants,
unlike the early 20th Century one which targeted a specific group?  

Doug Ivison



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