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“Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective on Internment”
Landscapes of Injustice book 2020 Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective on the Internment and Dispossession of Japanese Canadians Edited by Jordan Stanger-Ross McGill-Queen’s Press 2020 Landscapes of Injustice, the book, emerges from a collective effort to...
“Landscapes of Injustice Launch event” Michael Abe
Landscapes of Injustice Launch Event Oct 2020 Landscapes of Injustice Museum Launch Event A culmination of a seven year research project on the dispossession of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s By Michael Abe On Saturday, September 26, 2020, the Landscapes of Injustice...
“Broken Promises: The Landscapes of Injustice exhibit” Yasmin Amataranga Railton
Broken Promises Museum exhibit Broken Promises the Landscapes of Injustice Museum Exhibit Yasmin Amaratunga Railton, PhD Jack Lindsay. City of Vancouver Archives, 1184-1537 The Broken Promises museum exhibit is the capstone output of the Landscapes of Injustice...
The Lost Fleet Exhibit Launch Report: A Case Study
Photo credits: James Hollko By Mike Abe It was an honour to speak at the event launch of the Lost Fleet Exhibit at the Maritime Museum of British Columbia in January. The exhibit was on loan from the Vancouver Maritime Museum from Jan.-Mar., 2019. At the launch, I...
Midge Ayukawa Commemorative Lecture: Masumi Izumi and Jordan Stanger-Ross, Japanese American incarceration and Japanese Canadian dispossession book talk
Michiko (Midge) Ayukawa Commemorative Lecture New publications exploring the uprooting and dispossession of Japanese Canadians and the incarceration of Japanese Americans Thursday, October 22, 2020 5:00-6:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time Friday, October 23, 2020 9:00-10:00...
Broken Promises Museum Exhibit Launch
Grounded in research from Landscapes of Injustice – a 7 year multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional, community engaged project, this exhibit explores the dispossession of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s. It illuminates the loss of home and the struggle for justice of...
Tadaima! A Community Virtual Pilgrimage Presentations by Landscapes of Injustice
The Japanese American annual or biannual pilgrimages to the confinement sites throughout the US are postponed this year due to COVID-19. In their place is a comprehensive and interesting calendar of nine weeks of programming related not only to the experience of...
Landscapes of Injustice Book now available!
A major reinterpretation of the internment 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....
Landscapes of Injustice Summer 2020 Newsletter
Click to read entire newsletter Message from the Project Director-Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross I was taken aback by when Vivian told me about her experience of COVID-19 related racism. I’d previously read the findings of an Angus Reid Institute survey, in which Chinese...
Congratulations Jordan Stanger-Ross 2020 Provost’s Award for Community Engaged Scholarship
Sherri Kajiwara, director and curator of Nikkei National Museum, and Stanger-Ross with some of approximately 300 letters now part of the Landscapes of Injustice project. Photo: Chorong Kim Jordan Stanger-Ross has made community-engaged scholarship the hallmark of his...
NAJC Chats -With Michael Abe Exploring Japanese Canadian History – Recordings available
NAJC Chats with Michael Abe On May 27 and 31, 2020 Michael Abe, Project Manager for Landscapes of Injustice participated in the National Association of Japanese Canadians Chat series Landscapes of Injustice is a seven-year research project focussing on the...
Landscapes of Injustice Spring 2020 Newsletter
Click to read the entire newsletter Landscapes of Injustice Spring 2020 Newsletter Message from the Project Director Jordan Stanger-Ross I think I may have learned something new about the history of racism the other day in a neighbourhood store. Sometime near the...
Landscapes of Injustice Fall/Winter Newsletter Dec 2019
Click to read entire newsletter LoI Newsletter Fall Winter Dec 2019 print res Message from Project Director The end of Landscapes of Injustice is coming into view. We’ve got just over a year left in the official lifetime of the project. Some important...
Japanese Exclusion, Labour & Environment in the BC Salmon Fisheries, 1900-1930
Ben Bryce and Hailey Massingham Lecture Monday, October 28, 2019 Sedgewick Building Room C168 Uvic 3 pm Free and open to the public Between 1900 and 1930, fishermen, cannery workers, investors,fi sheries offi cials, and federal commissioners in British Columbiaknew...
Coquitlam Heritage at Mackin House – LOI presentation
Coquitlam Heritage at Mackin House 1116 Brunette Ave | Coquitlam BC | V3K 1G2 604-516-6151 www.coquitlamheritage.ca Landscapes of Injustice presentation 1:00-1:15 pm Jordan: Opening remarks, overview, update 1:20 pm-1:30 pm Kaitlin:...
Landscapes of Injustice Summer 2019 Newsletter
To read the entire newsletter, click this link Landscapes of Injustice Summer 2019 Newsletter Message from the Project Director, Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross Look up! Landscapes of Injustice has a new logo. We decided to refresh our look this summer, just in time for our...
Landscapes of Injustice Spring 2019 Newsletter
To read the newsletter, click this link Landscapes of Injustice Spring 2019 Newsletter Message from the Project Director, Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross A New Perspective on the Internment Era Four years of Landscapes of Injustice research culminated this April at the Spring...
Primary Source Cache: Records of the Forced Uprooting, Internment, Dispossession, and Exile of Japanese Canadians
This cache of primary-source materials was selected from the Landscapes of Injustice research database. The materials reflect moments in the history of the forced uprooting, internment, dispossession, and exile of Japanese Canadians. They are not meant to provide a...
Landscapes of Injustice Winter 2019 Newsletter
To read the newsletter, click this link Landscapes of Injustice Winter Spring 2019 Newsletter Message from the Project Director, Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross It was my great pleasure this month to submit to McGill University Press a weighty book manuscript: the summative...
Exhibit Launch Event: The Lost Fleet – Hosted by the Maritime Museum
The Lost Fleet looks at the world of the Japanese-Canadian fishermen in BC and how deep-seated racism played a major role in the seizure, and sale, of Japanese-Canadian property and the internment of an entire people. This special event explores the legacy of...