Landscapes of Injustice [PG stage II]

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Stanger-Ross, Jordan

• SSHRC Awarded Invited PG (stage 2) 2014: We propose to engage Canadians in a discussion of race, place, and the law. Canada continues to bear the legacy of a past in which racism held sway. The importance of race in shaping the very spaces we inhabit is epitomized by the events of World War II,when longstanding antipathy toward Asian immigration interwove with the pressures of war to enable the uprooting and dispossession of Japanese Canadians. The liquidation of Japanese Canadian real estate left a particularly lasting scar on the city of Vancouver, which was home, until 1942, to the oldest and largest Japanese Canadian neighbourhood in the country. But the liquidation reshaped localities throughout British Columbia. Displaced Japanese Canadians dispersed throughout the country. The liquidation built racism into the map of Canada. We will uncover the details of how these events occurred, and tell the story to the Canadian public.

• Date created

  2013-10-29

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Racism
  • Ethnic Studies
  • History
  • Property
  • Asia
  • PG
  • Mobility
  • Geography
  • Injustice
  • Multiculturalism
  • WWII
  • Japan
  • Vancouver
  • Sshrc grants
  • Sociology
  • British Columbia
  • Successful SSHRC
  • North America
  • Grant application
  • Displacement
  • Cities
  • Immigration
  • War
  • 2014
  • Land
  • Museums
  • Mapping Injustice
  • Asian
  • Real Estate
  • Law
  • Canada
  • Partnership Grants
  • Partnership Grant (Stage 2)
  • Historical Injustice
  • Japanese-Canadians
  • 1900-1970
  • United States
  • Justice
  • Race
  • 1942
  • British Columbia

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3VH5CJ2C

• License

  © Stranger-Ross, Jordan. All rights reserved other than by permission.