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• Title:North of the color line : migration and Black resistance in Canada, 1870-1955 / Sarah-Jane Mathieu.
  
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• Author/Creator:Mathieu, Sarah-Jane.
  
• Published/Created:Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: FC106.B6 M38 2010
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: FC106.B6 M38 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Black people--Canada--History.
  African Americans--Canada--History.
  West Indians--Canada--History.
  Immigrants--Canada.
  Black people--Canada--Social conditions.
  African Americans--Canada--Social conditions.
  West Indians--Canada--Social conditions.
  Canada--Race relations.
  
• Description:xiv, 280 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
  
• Summary:North of the Color Line 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, Sarah-Jane Mathieu connects social, political, labor, immigration, and black diaspora history during the Jim Crow era. --from publisher description.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780807834299 (cloth : alk. paper)
  0807834297 (cloth : alk. paper)
  9780807871669 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  0807871664 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• 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.