26 окт 1922 г. - Emily Murphy's racist text 'The Black Candle' published

Описание:

"Canada's first laws concerning opium, enacted in 1908, were explicitly crafted to target Chinese labourers rather than to address pharmacological evidence of harm (Boyd 2006; Gordon 2006). The perceived threat of drugs was highly sexualized, attached to fears of racial mixing and the dangers of non-white migration more largely. Black men were soon added to the list of perceived drug criminals. In 1922, Edmonton Juvenile Court judge and moral reformer Emily Murphy wrote a highly influential text entitled The Black Candle, which was instrumental in the creation of subsequent federal drug laws (Palmer 1982). The text, which linked drugs to the destruction of the white race, targeted Chinese men, Mexicans and Greeks, but a significant portion of the photos exhibited in the text feature Black men and women and the text singled out Black men who worked as porters (Murphy 1973: 36). One image depicts a white woman lying next to a Black man above a caption that reads "When she acquires a habit, she does not know what lies before her; later she does not care" (Murphy 1973:31). Murphy and others saw drugs as a racial and sexual danger to white purity and evoked tropes of Black men as traffickers who would enslave white women (Boyd 2006: 135)."

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