On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race and the Making of British Columbia, 1849–1871

Perry, Adele

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“…Some Black immigrants wanted to integrate with the white community rather than create a separate Black community, 66 and mixed-race couple relationships were also common. 67 …”

Section: Black Nurses In Colonial British Columbia: Unearthing the Su...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This middle-class status in colonial BC might have been a protective factor against racial discrimination at times but it did not exempt them from racism. Racial discrimination existed in colonial BC 37 and as historian Adele Perry argues, “race was simultaneously flexible and critical” to the formation of empire, 67 (p5) and white settlers used a variety of strategies to create a white, and more specifically, British society.…”

Section: Disrupting Whitenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Reflections on Black Nurses' Invisibility

Sousa

Wytenbroek²,

Boschma³

et al. 2023

Advances in Nursing Science

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Black nurses are at the margins of the annals of history and there is a dearth of historical accounts of their work. Drawing on our historical research about Black nurses in British Columbia (Canada) between 1845 and 1910, we point to the complexity of Black women's lives and argue that Black nurses disrupted the conceptualization of Blackness and Black womanhood of the time. We demonstrate the vital contributions of Black nurses to the health of communities and add to existing scholarship that redefines the nursing narrative: one in which white nurses are not the start and end point of history.

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“…Some Black immigrants wanted to integrate with the white community rather than create a separate Black community, 66 and mixed-race couple relationships were also common. 67 …”

Section: Black Nurses In Colonial British Columbia: Unearthing the Su...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Disrupting Whitenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reflections on Black Nurses' Invisibility

Sousa

Wytenbroek²,

Boschma³

et al. 2023

Advances in Nursing Science

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“…Perry's Bankrupt and Insolvent Gazette lists the dissolving of a silk merchant partnership in Liverpool on 27 October 1849 between George Foreman and Frederic Forster. 37 This may not be the same Frederic Forster but he is listed as a silk mercer, which was the original occupation of most mourning warehouse owners and the date coincides with the opening of the Leeds warehouse. The business is listed in White's Leeds and the Clothing Districts of Yorkshire, as 12 Briggate, along with Raynor and Sons Solicitors, which suggests Forster had part of the building at that point.…”

Section: Much Of the Information Concerning The History Of Frederic F...mentioning

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The Decline of Female Mourning Wear: A Case Study Analysis of Frederic Forster's Mourning Warehouse 1849–1923 in Leeds, UK

Almond,

Simpson

2023

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This article discusses substantial new research which explored the trade in UK female mourning wear by tracing the history of Frederic Forster’s Mourning Warehouse, situated on Lower Briggate in Leeds 1849–1923. It also interrogated the small collection of Forster items held by Leeds Museums and Galleries (LMG). This helped to develop an understanding of why UK female mourning wear, which dominated the High Street in the late nineteenth century, began to diminish. The research subsequently examined what the Forster items signify to a present-day audience and whether the need for special clothing to denote mourning has decreased or is met by other clothing practices in a globalized world. A review of literature raised several explanations, suggesting that the cultural work done by mourning clothing is no longer required today and the symbolic efficacy of black mourning clothing disappeared as black became increasingly popular in fashionable dress. The study tested these suppositions through an object-based analysis of the items in the LMG collection and a database search of newspaper advertisements from Frederic Forster in the period 1849–1923. The research activities were filmed to synthesize the insights and the film was discussed with a selection of interview participants to explore significant new knowledge and understanding about the decline of the UK female mourning dress trade.

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“…This connectivity and the supposed increase in sex workers made the city, or rather the establishment of white middle-class hetero/homonormativity, appear under attack. The "panics" over the sex work "crisis," in many ways, resemble historical-colonial fears of Indigenous rebellion and the threat of Indigeneity to settler lands and colonizers themselves (Perry, 2001;Carter, 1993). Normative communities/residents, therefore, had to recolonize their areas through letters of complaint, municipal authorities, antisex-worker groups, and, most notably, the gentrification of Vancouver.…”

Section: Sex Work As Anti-colonialismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Geographic racializing and the (re)colonization of Vancouver during the sex work “crisis”

Pietrangelo-Porco

2022

CWATCH

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In recent decades, profound transformations in the global economy, as well as the recent and ongoing economic crisis, have fundamentally altered patterns of work, labour, employment and unemployment, the structure of labour markets, relations between employers and employees, and the traditional institutions of workplace organizing and representation. These dynamics challenge scholars to forge a new research agenda. Motivated by these changes, the Global Labour Research Centre (GLRC) promotes the study of work, employment and labour at York University.

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On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race and the Making of British Columbia, 1849–1871

Cited by 57 publications

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Reflections on Black Nurses' Invisibility

Reflections on Black Nurses' Invisibility

The Decline of Female Mourning Wear: A Case Study Analysis of Frederic Forster's Mourning Warehouse 1849–1923 in Leeds, UK

Geographic racializing and the (re)colonization of Vancouver during the sex work “crisis”

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