AP/HREQ 3561 6.00

Canadian State Practices, Law, and Racism

This course discusses Canadian legal provisions with explicit racial content, beginning with the Indian Act (1876); the Continuous Journey Regulation (1908), which effectively barred South Asians; the Chinese Exclusion Act (1923); the rejection of Jewish refugees in the first part of the 20th century, and Japanese Canadian internment during World War II—as well as contemporary racism and efforts at redress in the criminal justice system. Course credit exclusion: AP/MIST 3561 6.00 Racism and the Law (prior to Fall 2017).   Prerequisites: 24 credits