The head tax case and the rule of law: The historical thread of judicial resistance to ‘legalized’ discrimination

Calling Power to Account: Law, Reparations, and the Chinese Canadian Head Tax

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 92-112

  McLaren, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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