Witness to loss : race, culpability, and memory in the dispossession of Japanese Canadians / edited by Jordan Stanger-Ross and Pamela Sugiman.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Series: Publication details: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- Kimura, Kishizo
- Racism -- British Columbia -- History -- 20th century
- Eviction -- British Columbia -- History -- 20th century
- Japanese -- Canada -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
- Japanese Canadians -- British Columbia -- Biography
- Japanese Canadians -- British Columbia -- History -- 20th century
- Japanese Canadians -- Forced relocation and internment, 1941-1949
- F1089 .W586 2017
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Includes English translation of Kishizo Kimura's memoir.
Includes bibliographies and index.
"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."--
Figures -- Note on landscapes of injustice -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction and reflections / Jordan Stanger-Ross -- Translator's note / Matsuki Masutani -- Editor's note / Jordan Stanger-Ross -- Memoir: -- Kishizo Kimura, translated by Matsuki Masutani and Jane Masutani -- Part 1: The Fishing Vessels Disposal Committee -- Part 2: Unusual and exceptional cases -- Part 3: Concluding the forced sale of fishing vessels -- Part 4: A message to younger Japanese Canadians -- Part 5: The forced sale of Vancouver property -- Part 6: Recollections -- Part 7: Property-owners in protest -- Commentaries: -- 1. A 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 -- Afterword / Pamela Sugiman -- Appendix: -- Key individuals and legal enactments / Will Archibald, Monique Ulysses, and Jordan Stanger-Ross -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
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