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Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, 6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby, British Columbia V5E 4M7
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Join Jordan Stanger-Ross for the launch of his latest edited collection, Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective on the Internment and Dispossession of Japanese Canadians.
The launch is part of the opening commemoration of the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre's new exhibit, Broken Promises. 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.
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.
The definitive statement of a major national research partnership, Landscapes of Injustice reinterprets the internment of Japanese Canadians by focusing on the deliberate and permanent destruction of home through the act of dispossession. All forms of property were taken. Families lost heirlooms and everyday possessions. They lost decades of investment and labour. They lost opportunities, neighbourhoods, and communities; they lost retirements, livelihoods, and educations. When Japanese Canadians were finally released from internment in 1949, they had no homes to return to. Asking why and how these events came to pass and charting Japanese Canadians' diverse responses, this book details the implications and legacies of injustice perpetrated under the cover of national security.
Jordan Stanger-Ross, associate professor of history and the project director of Landscapes of Injustice at the University of Victoria, is co-editor of Witness to Loss: Race, Culpability, and Memory in the Dispossession of Japanese Canadians.