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Witness to loss: race, culpability, and memory in the dispossession of Japanese Canadians

edited by Jordan Stanger-Ross and Pamela Sugiman
Resource Type:
E-Book
Publication:
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017]
Related Series:
McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history > Series two; [volume] 44
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Summary:
"When the federal government uprooted and interned Japanese Canadians en masse in 1942, Kishizo Kimura saw his life upended along with tens of thousands of others. But his story is also unique: as a member of two controversial committees that oversaw the forced sale of the property of Japanese Canadians in Vancouver during the Second World War, Kimura participated in the dispossession of his own community. In Witness to Loss, Kimura's previously unknown memoir--written in the last years of his life--is translated from Japanese to English and published for the first time. This remarkable document chronicles a history of racism in British Columbia, describes the activities of the committees on which Kimura served, and seeks to defend his actions. Diverse reflections of leading historians, sociologists, and a community activist and educator who lived through this history give context to the memoir, inviting readers to grapple with a rich and contentious past. More complex than just hero or villain, oppressor or victim, Kimura raises important questions about the meaning of resistance and collaboration and the constraints faced by an entire generation. Illuminating the difficult, even impossible, circumstances that confronted the victims of racist state action in the mid-twentieth century, Witness to Loss reminds us that the challenge of understanding is greater than that of judgment."-- [Provided by publisher]
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Memoir / Kishizo Kimura
  • pt. 1 Fishing Vessels Disposal Committee
  • pt. 2 Unusual and Exceptional Cases
  • pt. 3 Concluding the Forced Sale of Fishing Vessels
  • pt. 4 Message to Younger Japanese Canadians
  • pt. 5 Forced Sale of Vancouver Property
  • pt. 6 Recollections
  • pt. 7 Property-Owners in Protest
  • Commentaries
  • 1. Difficult Past: Kodomono tame ni
  • For the Sake of the Children / Masako Fukawa
  • 2. Kishizo Kimura and the Articulations of a Society Structured in Dominance / Timothy J. Stanley
  • 3. Resistance and Accommodation to Racism and Discrimination / Vic Satzewich
  • 4. Citizen Beings, Being Citizens: Reflections on Japanese-Canadian Experiences in War and Peace / Laura Madokoro.
Contributors:
Sugiman, Pamela H. (Pamela Haruchiyo), 1958- , editor
Stanger-Ross, Jordan , editor
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Related Series:
McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history > Series two; [volume] 44
Subjects:
Kimura, Kishizo
Japanese — British Columbia — History — 20th century
Racism — British Columbia — History — 20th century
Eviction — British Columbia — History — 20th century
British Columbia — Race relations — History — 20th century
General Notes:
Includes English translation of Kishizo Kimura's memoir.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Vendor-supplied metadata.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Call Numbers:
F1089.7.J3 W58 2017eb
ISBNs:
9780773551954
0773551956
9780773551961 [Invalid]
0773551964 [Invalid]
OCLC Numbers:
988888217
Other Control Numbers:
EBC5056784 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp14852013