Landscapes of injustice : a new perspective on the internment and dispossession of Japanese Canadians /

"In 1942, the Canadian government forced more than 21,000 Japanese Canadians from their homes in British Columbia. They were told to bring only one suitcase each and officials vowed to protect the rest. Instead, Japanese Canadians were dispossessed, all their belongings either stolen or sold. T...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Stanger-Ross, Jordan (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020.
Colección:Rethinking Canada in the world ; 5.
Temas:
1900-1999
Eviction > Canada > History > 20th century.
Racism > Canada > History > 20th century.
Japanese Canadians > Social conditions > 20th century.
Japanese Canadians > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Japanese Canadians > Canada > History > 20th century.
Japanese Canadians > Forced relocation and internment, 1941-1949.
Expulsion (Droit) > Canada > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Racisme > Canada > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY / Canada / General
Eviction
Race relations
Racism
Canada > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Canada > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Canada
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Property and its transformation for Issei during the Meiji and Taisho periods
  • "Equally applicable to Scotsmen" : racism, equality, and Habeas Corpus in the legal history of Japanese Canadians
  • The wealth of my home : a story of a Japanese Canadian Family
  • "My land is worth a million dollars" : how Japanese Canadians contested their dispossession in the 1940s
  • The unfaithful custodian : Glenn McPherson and the dispossession of Japanese Canadians
  • "Our deep and sincere appreciation ... for your kindness to us" : a Japanese Canadian family and the administrative state
  • (De)valuation : the state mismanagement of Japanese Canadian personal property in the 1940s
  • Promises of law : the unlawful dispossession of Japanese Canadians
  • Creating the Bird commission : how the Canadian State addressed Japanese Canadians' calls for fair compensation
  • The economic impacts of the dispossession
  • Remembering acts of ownership
  • The politics of honorific naming Alan Webster Neill and anti-Asian racism in Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada
  • The road to redress : a presentation to the Landscapes of Injustice Spring Institute, 2008
  • Social accountability after political apologies.

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